31.   With the leaves off the thick forest of hardwoods that cover the ridges, authorities searching for Rudolph are optimistic.

32.   Planes are often the only means to overcome huge distances, thick forests and lack of roads in eastern Congo.

33.   Rebels scurried for cover in thick forests and banana groves.

34.   A final settlement over the status of the high mountains and thick forests, which Armenians claim as the spiritual heartland of their nation, has never been reached.

35.   A major natural gas pipeline exploded in northwest Russia today, sending a giant fireball thousands of feet into the sky and scorching a large swath of thick forest.

36.   A short distance to the southwest, through thick forests and across tangled rivers hemmed by anthill-like shafts dug by gold miners, similar sentiments were voiced.

37.   After the fighting ended, dozens of terrified people who had been hiding in a cellar surfaced and rushed into the thick forest around the village.

38.   Blazes at ammunition depots, which are often located in thick forests, break out frequently in Russia.

39.   Bosnia is a mountainous land covered with thick forests.

40.   Defense Minister Jean-Pol Poncelet prepared to deploy troops to help look for Dutroux in the thick forests around Neufchateau.