More blood has been spilled in the Amazon, this time in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, where a tenuous strand of road connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Peruvian and Brazilian rain forests is slowly being paved.
The magazine, incidentally, added that the Scion probably could not complete the aforementioned exercise because its stock Michelin Primacy HP tires provided only very modest grip but noted that the car's tenuous connection to the road contributed to the fun.
Only a small fraction of the six million victims has received any tangible aid -- 500,000 at last unscientific count...the situation made all the more compelling by a total washout of bridges and roads in the affected areas leaving a tenuous helicopter lifeline as the only means to reach the people desperately in need of food and potable water.
So as they prepared Friday for the first game of a weeklong road trip, they searched for fresh motivation — however tenuous — to carry them to the finish line.
The Mariners are 30-28 on the road, but this stretch without days off could tax the Mariners' tenuous pitching.
Just up the road, a captain from the Congolese Army, with whom the rebels have declared a tenuous cease-fire, sat atop a mound of biscuit wrappers and cigarette butts, studiously reading a paperback titled "The Way to Happiness".
As the bond with Steve becomes more difficult and tenuous and she begins to imagine a future without him, her friendship with the woman over the road is more important and their final dialogue is agonising to watch.
Guerrillas and drug traffickers can move into areas like Caqueta and Putumayo precisely because the state has never bothered -- or been able -- to build roads, schools or hospitals there, and the forlorn, neglected peasants there feel only the most tenuous of connections to the authorities back in Bogota.
While some people from other parts of Paraguay have settled here over the years, aspects of the town seem aimed at a tenuous connection to Europe, like the two unfinished, fortresslike towers, built in mock-medieval style, greeting travelers on the road into town.
