1.   And so it was at Chagatai, a rugged stretch of barren hills that form the front lines near the Tajik border.

2.   Even here, where the two armies are separated by less than a mile of barren hills, the fighting rarely reaches a fever pitch.

3.   Evictions of settlers squatting on barren West Bank hills continued for the fourth day in a row Thursday, spreading also to the settlement of Qedumim near Nablus.

4.   In a prison in the barren hills on the outskirts of Amman, Khadar abu Hoshar waits with no regrets for the hangman.

5.   On Christmas, they still attend services in the old stone church that sits atop a barren hill surrounded by the modern kibbutz housing built over the old villages.

6.   Seminars on flying saucers have been held here and tours frequently take to the rough side roads and barren hills to look for strange objects in the sky.

7.   The Atacama is one of the driest places in the world, a vast expanse of barren hills and ridges baked to many shades of brown.

8.   The fighting here, where the two armies are separated by less than a mile of barren hills, rarely reaches fever pitch.

9.   The fighting here, where the two armies are separated by less than a mile of barren hills, rarely reaches a fever pitch.

10.   The Palestinians call the barren hill Muhameddin, and to them it is Arab land, the property of a family named Moussa.