11.   That place, Peissel said, is the Dansar plain, a high plateau overlooking the Indus River near the tense cease-fire line between India and Pakistan.

12.   The district lies on a high plateau on the north side of the Hindu Kush mountains, and acts as a gateway to the Panjshir Valley to the east.

13.   The fields of spiky agave plants stretch to the horizon across the high plateau.

14.   The Llano is a high plateau that stretches from central-western Texas north over most of the Panhandle and west into eastern New Mexico.

15.   This summer, on a high grassy plateau in western Mongolia, framed by the Altai mountains, linguist David Harrison chased yaks with a digital video camera.

16.   He figures it will level off, albeit on a very high plateau.

17.   Since the beginning of the insurgency, the high plateau region of Saida has been wracked by militants attacking nomads and herders and their flocks.

18.   Hutu refugees from Rwanda and Burundi climbing up to this high plateau from the Uvira plain farther south said they were being pursued by Tutsis battling Zairean troops.

19.   Accounts by refugees reaching this high plateau from the Uvira plain to the south made it clear the death toll is in the hundreds.

20.   The regions examined were the high plateaus of Kericho in western Kenya, Kabale in southwest Uganda, Gikonko in southern Rwanda and Muhunga in northern Burundi.