There they talk and tussle; as their clothes slip off, he is transfixed by "her long gazelle neck, her shapely breasts so full, her nipples, the color of blackberry, so erect," but, since he fails to produce a condom, he wins only a stern lecture on AIDS and V.D. Later, when she has pursued him across the plains to his mountain haven, he still hasn't learned his lesson.
Al Qaeda and other militant groups have used redoubts in Pakistan's rugged mountains as havens for the past several years.
Dian Fossey, another woman who had difficulty adjusting to social norms, found a haven among mountain gorillas.
Melrose is a haven for mountain bikers, boasting a multitude of trails in the foothills of Mount Remarkable and beyond.
The Tora Bora campaign was also regrettable in that many Taliban and Qaeda fighters seem to have fled across the mountains and found haven in Pakistan.
Blustery Midwestern metropolis Chicago, which came in fourth; mountain-tucked ski haven Denver, which ranked fifth; and Southern hot spot Atlanta at No. 8.
In the summer, the mountains are a haven for mountain-biking aficionados.
At the same time the ayatollahs still suppress the PKK's currently quiescent sister-movement, known by its Kurdish initials, PJAK, which has a haven in the mountain borderland of north-eastern Iraq.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested in Washington this week that military operations in Iraq would be narrowly concentrated on guerrillas from the Kurdistan Workers Partyy, or P.K.K., who use the jagged mountain border frontier as a haven after attacks in Turkey.
Mr. Erdogan, whose efforts at peace could establish his legacy as a peacemaker and propel him to the presidency next year, has demanded that the thousands of fighters scattered around Turkey lay down their weapons before withdrawing to safe havens in these mountains.
