11.   An urbane Chicagoan is importuned to cover songs from the Mississippi hill country, better to tickle the primitivist new tastes of a white blues audience.

12.   And in the hardscrabble hill country of northern Mississippi, all the contradictions find a natural home.

13.   As a drenching rain pounded the Texas hill country Sunday, George W. Bush remained secluded at his ranch, weighing his choice of a running mate.

14.   As tropical air reaches the hill country, it ascends the sloping terrain, boosting the lift needed for intensifying rains.

15.   A stripe of snow will fall over the hill country of west Texas with a few locations receiving several inches of wet snow.

16.   A sparsely populated temperate and semitropical zone there was drawing illegal immigrants from overpopulated Nepal and the Darjeeling hill country and the northeast of India.

17.   A slow-moving cold front became the focal point of heavy thunderstorms as the front finally stalled over the hill country of south Texas.

18.   After that, I spent half a day blasting around the Texas hill country, first with Chrysler Vice Chairman Robert Lutz at the wheel, then myself.

19.   But it is oil that is most apparent, especially as you enter the rocky hill country near Iraan.

20.   Dying tropical storms are notorious for producing heavy rain over the hill country of Texas after they make landfall and churn west.