| 1 | China has two idiom that concern with landscape: Barren mountains and unruly rivers and at the end of one's resources. | |
| 2 | Meanwhile the social history and geography of riots suggests more mayhem to come from the poorest places. | |
| 3 | Hunting down bin Laden was, remember, the primary reason for sending US troops to that remote nation. | |
| 4 | The bus is starting to roll down the rutted dirt road in Dongfa village, carrying the young worker and his wife away from this ghost town near the Russian border. | |
| 5 | Second, the extreme wing of political Islam, epitomised by al-Qaeda, has completely failed to benefit, except perhaps in the ungovernable badlands of Yemen. |