1.   Because villages dot many Alpine valleys, avalanche control in Europe involves mainly passive measures.

2.   A quieter time, when America was still a colony and small villages dotted the landscape of rolling hills and lush valleys.

3.   Small villages dot hillsides and sit in valleys among a mosaic of fields planted in corn, beans, fruits and vegetables.

4.   Kosovo is a poor, rural province dotted by villages of big brick farmhouses that were home to large, extended, mainly Muslim families.