When researchers compared forested and deforested lowland areas, looking at the actual accumulation of clouds and at computer simulations, that was just what they saw.
Much of the $7 billion that moved through the front companies, Benex, BECA and Lowland, belonged to Russian importers looking for ways to pay foreign suppliers without alerting Russian authorities to the real value of their contracts.
More and more European energy companies are looking to windswept lowlands for potential development, says Mark Whittingham, an ecologist at Newcastle University in the U.K., who decided to find out whether wind turbines on farmlands might displace local bird populations.
In the next flash of memory I have, I'm back in the kitchen, looking out over the lowland valley, holding the guts of a music box.
(all a bit too Scottish for our mainstream American family), we instead headed to Stirling Castle, a fortress that dates back to the early 1100s and sits on a rocky precipice looking out over the Lowlands (£8.50, ages 5 to 15 £3.50).
"There is no West Bat Ayin Maarav -- there is only Bat Ayin Maarav," said a blue-eyed man with a flowing beard in the hardscrabble hillside outpost that is gradually evolving from a collection of plywood and linoleum trailers to solid stone buildings looking across the coastal lowlands to the Mediterranean Sea.
There is an 1879 painting in the Strauss Mansion Museum, our historical society headquarters in Atlantic Highlands, which shows the landscape looking north toward the central lowlands of today's town and the bay beyond.
If you are an experienced Africa traveler and you are looking for a unique and seriously off-the-beaten path experience, then tracking western lowland gorillas in the Republic of Congo might be the perfect adventure for you.
Bolivia's neighbors are increasingly looking to Brazil to mediate between Mr. Morales and his regional opponents, even though leaders in the eastern lowlands are irked by the Brazilian president's support for Mr. Morales.
The Market Lowland Heights Roadhouse's target market strategy is based on becoming a destination choice for the people in the Greenhorn Valley who are looking for a place to relax or recharge.
