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...A wall of flames lurches over a ridge as a resident of Morgan Valley Road near Lower Lake, California, prepares to evacuate because of the 3,000 acre Rocky Fire that has taken hold in Lake County....
...Nine states and the District of Columbia have legalised same-sex marriage, and efforts are under way in Illinois, Minnesota and Rhode Island. Activists hope the Supreme Court will take note....
...At the top end of the market, Nelda Linsk is marketing 38 Sky Ridge Road....
...So there are such charming but disgraceful confections as the 34th state senate district of New York (“the dangling lobster tail”) and the 17th congressional district of Illinois (“the rabbit on a skateboard...
...of being the only ski area where a drunk driver had once killed someone standing in the liftline because the road was so close to the skiing....
...Electric power blackouts in North America—such as the one that shut down the northeast of the United States in 2003—and in Europe and Russia, generate worries about the reliability of electricity supply...
...Pelham, Barrel Fermented 2007 Niagara Escarpment Le Clos Jordanne 2006 Twenty Mile Bench & Talon Ridge 2007 Vinemount Ridge Tawse Winery, Quarry Road Vineyard 2007 Vinemount Ridge Malivoire Wine Company...
...But in California’s major export markets, such as the UK, practically all we see are the cut-price likes of Blossom Hill, Gallo’s cheaper lines, Sutter Home and Turner Road....
...In his interview, Mr Cheney also complains about Mr Obama’s apparent lack of belief in the school of American exceptionalism – “the idea that the United States is a special nation, that we are the greatest...
...Standing across the road from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, you can see how it might have fazed visitors in 1910, the year of its completion....
...We drove across endless, flat, windswept fields, with few other cars on the roads and no mobile phone signals for hundreds of miles....
...California may be one of the US’s most populous states but, to European eyes, its emptiness is still vast – and pristine....
...Boffi Chelsea, 254 Brompton Road, London SW3, tel: +44 (0)20-7590 8910. www.boffi-chelsea.com Potty about Japan An exhibition presented by the consulate-general of Japan, the Japan Foundation and the University...
...“It would be a little strange to have a nominee chosen by 48 states. We’ve got a long road ahead, but we’re going to keep fighting on that path for America, because America is worth fighting for....
...Everyone agrees that MercExchange vs eBay before the United States Supreme Court is shaping up as one of the biggest patent battles anywhere in many a moon....
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