11.   Ordinarily, air strikes by jets and helicopter gunships can lay down enough suppressive fire to enable medevac helicopters to get in and out of even hot landing zones.

12.   Sandstorms, normal for this season, complicated other landing zones.

13.   Special Forces teams have made limited forays into Afghanistan to meet with anti-Taliban rebels and to scout for targets and identify possible landing zones.

14.   Stephen was dead, shot in the head at a disputed landing zone.

15.   The distant strand would be their landing zone.

16.   The Denver Post reported Thursday that members of the Lockheed Martin team who directed the spacecraft were surprised to learn that the yawning fissure was inside the landing zone.

17.   The landing zone shifted throughout the day.

18.   The rumored landing zone is franchise-starved Cleveland, even though the good people around Lake Erie insist they would prefer an expansion team.

19.   The suspected Serb position was within range of the landing zone where the Navy Sea Dragons dropped food on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

20.   The women burned their burqas, the head-to-toe robes which the Taliban forced all women to wear, to illuminate the darkened landing zone.