1.   Phaestos stands on a hill in the south of Crete, in an area more rugged than Knossos.

2.   He is a sometimes hotheaded francophone as independent as is Jonquiere, the rugged area on the fierce Saguenay River that Quebecers proudly consider their frontier.

3.   Instead, American officials are pressing Afghan commanders in the Jalalabad region to probe the rugged area.

4.   Investigators were led the day after the Birmingham blast to this rugged area where Cherokee and Macon counties.

5.   Other impoverished Mazahua Indians in this rugged rural area have similar stories.

6.   Pucuro is in the Darien province of Panama, an area so rugged that all efforts to build a road through it have collapsed.

7.   The action is centered in a rugged area south of the Afghan city of Gardez.

8.   The fire was set intentionally, officials say, in a rugged area Sunday afternoon.

9.   The rugged areas of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan have become a refuge for al-Qaida forces since the toppling of the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

10.   The rugged mountainous Khost area, with caves and a maze of tunnels, remains a stronghold for al-Qaida.