In the provinces, where the bright lights of Moscow do not reach, lies a vast land mired in illness, poverty and hopelessness.
The water they had hoped to reach lay almost two miles deep.
According to our directions, it was simple to reach, lying halfway between Colares and Sintra.
The Nawa District, largely out of the Afghan government's or the American military's reach, lies on a transit route for insurgents who travel between Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan.
This depression, which flares out to its greatest dimension in the Amazon's upper reaches, lies between two old and relatively low crystalline plateaus, the rugged Guiana Highlands to the north and the lower Brazilian Highlands (lying somewhat farther from the main river) to the south.
But the real proof of its reach lies in the challenge videos – the dancing clowns have had more than 21m views; a compilation of people dancing has had nearly 17m views; a four-year-old dancing to the track on the Ellen show has had 12m views.
In Chaco's northern reaches lies another cluster of Great Houses; among the largest are Casa Chiquita ("Small House"), a village built in the AD 1080s, when, in a period of ample rainfall, Chacoan culture was expanding.
Within this reach lies an opportunity for a miracle: to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS as the threat of an epidemic knocks on Malaysia's door.
In 2007 already, a cross-sectional study found that supplemental resveratrol is taken by 2/3 of people who routinely consume multiple dietary supplements, and this number may be increasing as studies describing resveratrol's health effects have reached the lay public through ample coverage in popular media.
Usually, these people are at the bottom of the pile and for years it has been thought that the problem in reaching them lies at the top of the heap – with bad policy, with corruption among insiders, and so on.
