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The earthquake that hit western China on Saturday morning yielded cruelly familiar images: the same lush, terraced fields, separated by ruins; red-rock boulders blocking roads for rescue workers; the white tile buildings of the Sichuan countryside, reduced to dust.

Photograph by Zhang Lang/Color China Photo/AP The earthquake that hit western China on Saturday morning yielded cruelly familiar images: the same lush, terraced fields, separated by ruins; red-rock boulders blocking roads for rescue workers; the white tile buildings of the Sichuan countryside, reduced to dust.

By Evan Osnos April 20, 2013 The earthquake that hit western China on Saturday morning yielded cruelly familiar images: the same lush, terraced fields, separated by ruins; red-rock boulders blocking roads for rescue workers; the white tile buildings of the Sichuan countryside, reduced to dust.

The war in Iraq stands like a boulder in the road, blocking progress on so many other important issues that are crucial to our viability as a society.

Despite some early indications this season that Mr. Jackson might turn into the judging panel's musical authority, finally out of the shadow of Mr. Cowell and, you suppose, Steven Tyler, he quickly reverted to being the same old boulder in the road he's always been, a fountain of empty cliché with a taste for pastel paisley.

The empowerment legislation that was the companion piece for the plan — giving campuses greater autonomy, including the ability to set their own tuitions — became the pivotal, ferociously contested boulder in the road in New York's seemingly endless budget impasse (which at press time remained unresolved).

Deena Drossin, winner of the past four United States cross-country titles and the first-place finisher in the 10,000 meters at the United States Olympic trials last summer, ran with the lead pack early, got progressively stronger and then won the women's elite race yesterday in the Bolder Boulder 10-kilometer road race in Boulder, Colo.

"Trying to encourage early, frank, honest reporting both of forecasting boulders in the road and opportunity.

The workers turned their vehicles around when they encountered boulders in the road leading to the site.

Their first challenge was gangs of thieves, who place boulders in the road to halt convoys while children run in and rifle the trucks.

Monsoon rains have created heavy mud and the boulders on the road seem impassable but we bump and barrel our way uphill in the lowest gear, the truck's engine roaring.