The two were taken to hospital in Ruwayshid, the closest town to the berm, and then, according to family, returned to the berm.
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It's not easy -- barbed wired around the berm meant the World Food Program had to use cranes to make that aid drop into the berm, where the refugees were huddled.
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Health workers administer polio vaccinations from their perch on the berm.
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An earthen berm was built to keep the lake in place.
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There is a dirt berm at the spot but no guardrail.
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They huddled against a Peshmerga berm, sitting disconsolately in the swirling dust.
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I can practically smell the junk food cooking up in the berm.
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"I got the idea from the novel's chapter, Monet's Berm," says Labrague.
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In 2600, the river crested the berm, filling homes to their rooftops.
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The women who survived the berm at first have little to say.
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"You have all kinds of people coming in [to the berm]," said Yasser.
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"We've seen pictures that are sent purportedly from inside the berm," said Thurtle.
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Occasionally, a truck will move behind a berm in the rolling land beyond.
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His vehicle hit a berm and went right over the edge, flipping once.
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The ISIS fighters had built their own berm beside the house's exterior wall.
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I'm campaigning for candidates because we have to build a berm out there.
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I pace back and forth like a madman on the road behind the berm.
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Behind the berm, six unmarked hangars each hold tens of thousands of computer servers.
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That starts with allowing the immediate resumption of humanitarian relief operations at the berm.
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A pickup mounted with an anti-tank gun pulled in front of the berm.
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Children skipped around a dirt berm, not flinching at the sound of gunshots and blasts.
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"There was at least 22014 feet for the lava to overtop the berm," Stovall said.
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Seconds later, an airstrike hits close to the berm and the room erupts in cheers.
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Rubble and parts of the attacker's body could still be seen by a nearby berm.
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Then they saw it encircled by a gently sloping earthen berm that offers extra protection.
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But the resumption of emergency aid at the berm is not a long-term solution.
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A large log swirled in the water near where the earthen berm should have been.
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Widad would wait in the women's queue when aid was being distributed at the berm.
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"But no matter how bad conditions are on the berm, it's better than in Syria."
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The bodies of the four victims were found stacked on a berm alongside a nearby road.
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A man works to build a berm around his home in Freeport, Illinois, on March 15.
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Yasser said his brother had spent six months on the berm and run out of money.
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The boy eventually slowed down and drove onto a berm to avoid driving over stop sticks.
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Kurdish Peshmerga have begun to dig a long trench and berm to mark their front line.
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In the vacant lot behind, weeds had blanketed the rubble underneath into a soft, green berm.
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The gunfire had stopped, and the bulldozer had built an earthen berm blocking the main highway.
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It flooded the basement of the pastor's house, jumping over the concrete berm he had built.
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Furman would be widened by cutting into the berm now shielding the park from the highway.
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No one is permitted to climb over the southern berm and wade into the demilitarized zone (DMZ).
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Where it landed — on the grass berm beyond the center-field wall — was a reasonably predictable outcome.
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Now they look out onto the nearly 15-foot-high earthen berm built by Mr. Trump's people.
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It ran along an elevated berm where workers had spread out hides to dry in the sun.
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A berm has been constructed around the edges of the camp, which houses about 26,000 displaced people.
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An army bulldozer had pushed some of his customers' cars beneath an earth berm to fortify frontline positions.
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"The wings became nearly vertical, and the view of the airplane was lost behind a berm," investigators said.
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Saleh, 65, a father from Homs now living in Azraq, spent October through early March on the berm.
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Dr. Schumacher admired a deep track and wondered about the prints beyond the volunteers' reach beneath the berm.
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On the beach road, where artillery cases littered the empty street, fighters crouched under a berm of sand.
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Like every woman interviewed by Broadly, Um Ahmad was adamant: she did not feel safe on the berm.
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Both sides have generally respected the informal border, marked by a 1,193-mile-long Moroccan-built sand berm, since 1991 — until last August, when Morocco sent security forces to the other side of the berm and into Guerguerat, its greatest violation of the cease-fire in more than 25 years.
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They are separated by a 2,700km (1,700-mile) sand berm, built by the Moroccan army and sown with mines.
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But CNN's requests to visit the berm after this were denied by the Jordanian military, who cited security reasons.
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Deaths, widespread illness Aid agencies, like MSF, have been speaking to sources in the berm and documenting medical cases.
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In one such design proposal called "Menacing Earthworks," an immense, lightning-shaped berm radiates from an open-centered Keep.
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The suicide bomber drove out from behind a berm and dodged gunfire to reach the military post, it added.
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Today, the dig site is part of a sound berm on the north side of a San Diego freeway.
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"The attack underlines how challenging a relief operation is at the berm," she said, before the border was closed.
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It was in service of getting people under the berm and into the fictional space of the ride building.
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For the last seven weeks, relief agencies based in Jordan have not been able to get to the berm.
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According to the United Nations, four out of five of the refugees at the berm are women or children.
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A berm partially obscures the house from the road, and there is a gravel parking area on the side.
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The back portion halted behind a berm about 220 feet high and about 237 yards downslope from the house.
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"There's a grave over there," he said, pointing past the berm toward a farmhouse a few hundred feet away.
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She said the skin disease leishmaniasis was rampant on the berm, and keeping kids clean was a constant challenge.
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The Peshmerga have been very visibly building a large berm and ditch on what they see as their final destination.
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Aid agencies call it "the berm" -- essentially a rocky, largely uninhabitable no-man's land on Jordan's northeastern frontier with Syria.
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Kurdish peshmerga fighters stood on a berm, watching closely for any signs of suicide bombers, who sometimes pose as civilians.
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The berm, first built in 1980, divides Morocco from the Western Sahara and is made from sand and barbed wire.
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Freedom is not having your house surrounded by contaminated mud because the berm at the neighboring chemical plant failed overnight.
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It was fired from a sand berm used by Israeli snipers at least 120 yards from where the medics fell.
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We ran behind a berm, which Army bulldozers had created the previous day, to a house pocked with bullet holes.
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The Marines took over one of the smallest of those outposts, which had a dirt berm as its protective barrier.
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Before that, Jim McGreevey broke his leg in 2002 after he stepped off a berm while walking on the beach.
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Amongst women who have survived the berm, some of the most harrowing stories come from those who managed it alone.
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Kurdish Peshmerga forces have already built a massive berm in a unilateral attempt to draw a new border for their region.
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The solution flowed over a berm surrounding the leach pad where gold is processed after a pipe was damaged on Sept.
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The refugees coming from Hadalat describe a nine-mile journey via Bedouin smugglers from government-held Sweida province to the berm.
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Families, clustered behind a sand berm, had been trapped in their village since ISIS occupied it more than two years ago.
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Constable Wurzinger climbed over a nearby embankment and miraculously, the missing female was spotted lying at the base of the berm.
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Immediately after the attack, which took place at a sand berm marking the frontier, speculation immediately fell on the Islamic State.
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A fine has not yet been applied for a September 2016 incident in which solution containing cyanide flowed over a berm.
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At one point a medevac Huey sat right down on the berm, so we loaded in several wounded, including Bob French.
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A fine has not yet been applied for the Sept 2016 incident in which solution containing cyanide flowed over a berm.
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A giant circle featuring that logo on a mat sits on a grass berm near Exit 9 on the Adirondack Northway.
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Sat cross-legged in their shelters at Azraq, the men who survived the berm describe a near-Darwinian struggle for survival.
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Authorities said the isolated compound was surrounded by tires and an earthen berm and included a buried travel trailer and a tunnel.
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Fifteen hundred pounds of aluminum reached 120 mph in just 1.5 seconds, accelerating to 300 mph before plowing into a sand berm.
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Lava from Fissure 22 had crossed onto the Puna Geothermal Venture's property, officials said Monday, but is being stopped by a berm.
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Three pitches later, the Toronto lead doubled as Donaldson sent a Hughes offering 425 feet to the grassy berm in center field.
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They sold their wedding rings to pay smugglers to get them to the berm and to buy a tent as basic supplies.
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It is normal, say some refugees who have been admitted to Jordan from Ruqban, to spend five or six months on the berm.
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Samuelsen said the burning tanks are within a six-foot tall earthen berm that is collecting water and chemicals leaking from the tanks.
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Imagineers started breaking through the berm, mounting elaborate facades inside the park but constructing boxy "ride buildings" or "show buildings" beyond the rim.
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The results persuaded them to build a six-foot sand berm for a quarter-mile along the arena, practice courts and spectator entrances.
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Mustafa Sniper, as he is known, checks the top of the berm, and suddenly several rounds crack through the air above their heads.
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In the fast-disappearing light of a winter afternoon, I could see the circular berm that traces the route of the buried Tevatron.
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She spent mid-August 2015 through January 2016 on the berm, and said she had had no idea how difficult conditions would be.
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Armored Humvees crossed the long berm separating newly-liberated areas from ISIS-occupied lands, firing artillery shells and heavy machine guns as they went.
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The berm is intended to supplement a recently completed dam built across the river to allow for a controlled release of the water flow.
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And it's not known if an ad hoc delivery of food last week, dropped by crane over the berm, reached all those in need.
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And it was "surrounded in part with an earthen berm and old tires stacked up around it," Hogrefe wrote in an affidavit filed Monday.
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On Friday morning, law enforcement entered the Amalia compound, which is surrounded by tires and an earthen berm and includes a buried travel trailer.
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Often it is highly literal, announcing itself in the shape of a concrete wall, a sand berm, a tall fence topped with barbed wire.
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Vriens said he watched through his scope as a fourth girl dragged the wounded girl over a berm and under a bridge to escape.
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The proposal called for an eight-foot landscaped berm at the park's western edge insulating the F.D.R. and the Lower East Side from flooding.
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Valmeyer, an agricultural village of 21993,21722 people, is separated from the Mississippi by lush farmland and a grassy berm that serves as a levee.
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Humanitarian agencies provide food, water, and some medical care from earthen berm, but soldiers and aid workers do not venture into the demilitarized zone.
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At Brooklyn Bridge Park, there is even a green sound berm to block the noise from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway as it skirts Brooklyn Heights.
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There are also ad-hoc aid deliveries from Gulf charities: in the past month, a load of frozen turkeys was handed out on the berm.
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On Thursday afternoon, women fighters were lined up on a dirt berm, their weapons pointed at the frontline with Islamic State about 700 meters away.
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Just this week, Doctors Without Borders teams in Jordan received reports from United Nations personnel that pregnant women at the berm had died in labor.
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Saving people at the berm now will ensure more credible and meaningful meetings in September, although that is hardly the main reason to do so.
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Jordan has restricted humanitarian access to the berm after six of its soldiers were killed in a car bomb explosion in the area in June.
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Check out the arm on this kid as he plays catch with Oscar Hernandez and Brandon Drury from the left-field berm at Salt River Fields.
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Morocco moved south of the berm last August, when it began paving a road in Guerguerat, ostensibly to combat smuggling (but probably also to facilitate trade).
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The pursuit ended when a trooper nudged the boy&aposs car into a sign on a grassy berm and prevented him from returning to the roadway.
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Last September, mine operations were suspended after falling ice damaged a pipe and spilled some ore saturated with cyanide solution over a berm, or raised bank.
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What we know about life on the berm comes mainly from the testimonies of those Syrians later admitted into Jordan and housed at Azraq refugee camp.
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The same data shows that as of April, the majority of pregnant women on the berm were in their seventh, eighth and ninth months of pregnancy.
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As the settlement at Ruqban has grown, the humanitarian response has become better-funded and more organized, with medical staff stationed on the berm most days.
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Twenty-four year-old Widad, a widowed mother of three from rural Homs, spent February on the berm with her mother, sister, children, and disabled father.
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For people used to living in homes with running water and modern plumbing, as most Syrians are, the adjustment to life on the berm was exhausting.
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We can move over to the left side if we feel like it today, and we can — we can pass on the berm if we want to.
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Abdelaziz will be buried in the buffer zone called "liberated territory" by the Polisario, which is located between the Moroccan protective berm and Algerian and Mauritanian borders.
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ISIS fighters are using a truck that allows them to pop up over the berm, open fire, and then repeat the procedure from another position moments later.
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The wave carried me away from the fence, nearly to the berm on the western shore, and then the wall in front of me lengthened and accelerated.
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Centuries ago workers dug up the channels, flinging the mud and debris next to the canals, thus forming a berm that was used as an elevated walkway.
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The city will spend $165 million to elevate the wharf and esplanade in Battery Park and to create a protective berm at the back of the park.
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"My biggest worry was that Sahar would go into labor on the berm, after the doctor left," said Aamer, holding the couple's one-month-old baby, Loujan.
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There is widespread concern that this disrupts the natural topography of the sands, which requires the right ratio of dune, berm and tidal slope to remain in stasis.
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This wall appears as abruptly and jarringly as it disappears, simply giving way to the rigors of the terrain: a natural reserve, someone's backyard, private land, a berm.
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Little more than tents surrounded by a 13-foot-high dirt berm, it had the hastily conceived and temporary feel of much of the Marine involvement in Afghanistan.
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By then, mid-March, a network of volunteer midwives had been established and were being equipped by humanitarian agencies to provide care to mums delivering on the berm.
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Before they approached the raised bank, or berm, Peshmerga -- Kurdish soldiers -- frisked them one by one, and went through their bags at an outpost outside the town of Daqouq.
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Operations at the mine were temporarily suspended last September after falling ice damaged a pipe and spilled some ore saturated with cyanide solution over a berm, or raised bank.
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In the most recent leak, the solution flowed over a berm, or raised bank, surrounding the leach pad where gold is processed, after a pipe was damaged on Sept.
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As part of the repair work, Barrick, the world's biggest gold producer, will raise the height of the berm, Dushnisky said on the sidelines of the Denver Gold Forum.
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Since the start of Syria's war in 2011, the area around the berm has served as an entry point to safety in Jordan from the unremitting violence in Syria.
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Each tunnel entrance, the report says, is protected by a neighboring berm of rock and dirt about 60 feet high and two outward-opening doors about 20 feet wide.
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The berm surrounding the park would be the first link in a string of buffers around all Lower Manhattan — known as the Big U — to protect against rising seas.
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Her fourth, a girl named Faten, was born on 15 November in a tent on the berm, delivered by a midwife from Homs—another refugee awaiting entry to Jordan.
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The Peshmerga have been holding a long defensive berm since then, and it's from this that the Iraqis -- the 15th Division of the Iraqi Army -- pushed forward towards al-Nasr.
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"Anything you can think of, you could buy it there," said Mohammad Mohammad, a 2290-year-old man from Homs who spent three months on the berm in late winter.
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Related: There Are More Displaced People in the World Than Ever Before According to statistics compiled by NGOs, the vast majority of new arrivals on the berm are from Homs.
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There are unnecessary deaths everyday in the berm ... so it is critical and we do need to have access and it needs to happen now -- it needs to happen yesterday.
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Kaiser says a subsequent investigation revealed that Pfeil's 21-year-old neighbor was using his gun for target practice in his backyard and shooting toward a dirt berm, or embankment.
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The National Transportation Safety Board said the probable cause of the crash into a berm and fence at the water's edge was that the captain reversed the engines too aggressively.
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My buddies were dropping left and right, but by the grace of God I raced safely back to a small berm next to the creek where everyone able was scrambling.
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He and other recent arrivals to Azraq listed off the medications available from black-market sellers on the berm: painkillers, antibiotics, blood pressure medication, and injections for a variety of ailments.
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When there was a pause in the fighting, a group of trucks emerged from behind the berm, raced up the track and cut right onto a hillock that overlooked the house.
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In just his third at-bat in the big leagues, Tucker crushed a 2-2 pitch against Giants left-hander Derek Holland onto the grass berm beyond the center field wall.
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On the other side of town, twenty miles from the Syrian border, the peshmerga had raised a berm on the highway, near a crossroads littered with fragments from two exploded cars.
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They built a tent the way most others did, collecting a wooden pallet at the berm, taking it apart and building two posts, and then using scarves to create a roofline.
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Officials said at the time the suicide bomber drove an explosive laden car at full speed from behind a berm and evaded troops to reach the Jordanian post and detonate his car.
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George had brought her doctoral diploma, also from UT. With binder clips, we fixed it to a target in front of an earthen berm, along a creek lined with Texas live oaks.
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We head back out onto the roads of Iraq with other CACI employees and stop on an isolated stretch of highway so we can test-fire the weapons into a highway berm.
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The expansion centers on a new tunnel under the aged pine boardwalk that leads to a compressed slice of sand that will be set off by a rope and a sand berm.
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The final line between territory controlled by the SDF and ISIS is an earthen berm on the outskirts of Baghouz Al-Fawqani, the only town still under ISIS control in the area.
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Journalists taken on Saturday to the front, the so-called zero line, marked by a berm about 300 yards from the first Islamic State position, found soldiers drinking tea and watching videos.
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As of Tuesday morning, a pre-existing berm that is 20143-feet high is halting much of the lava flow from moving toward the wells, according to US Geological Survey scientist Wendy Stovall.
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"If you want to go back to Syria because you can't take the berm, it costs 100,000 SYP ($200) per person," said Yasser Abu Mohammad, a refugee from Idlib now living at Azraq.
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The rights group released satellite images Thursday that show the extent of a makeshift refugee camp in al-Rukban, an area of desert known as the berm, along Jordan's northeast border with Syria.
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Restrictions after attack Humanitarian aid to the berm, which was already limited, virtually ceased altogether after a suicide car bombing killed at least six members of Jordan's security forces in June, Amnesty said.
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The berm was inviolable, except when visitors walked under the train tracks that circumnavigated it and found … Main Street, an architectural fantasy of small-town America that led to a fairy-tale castle.
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With a berm of sand-colored plastic in the foreground, it could seem, for long moments, as if we were watching an excellent surfer pulling into a dream section on a sand point.
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Barrick said provincial regulators ordered work in seven areas, including maintenance of the exterior perimeter of the leach pad liner and raising the exterior berm, or bank, over which the processing solution flowed.
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Sandia's final report, based on the two sets of recommendations and published two years later, informed the tentative Marker design for the WIPP site: a 33-foot-tall by 98-foot-wide earthen berm.
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I can position the car exactly where I want it, a necessity when I'm riding the very edge of the asphalt, with only a small berm of mounded dirt between the Porsche and oblivion.
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Boydton Journal BOYDTON, Va. — A giant Microsoft facility just outside this very small town hides behind a quarter-mile berm and a guard house, across the highway from the rubble of a demolished prison.
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The refugees have amassed in makeshift camps in an area known as the berm, so named for its distinctive raised barrier of sand, which marks a mileslong no man's land between Syria and Jordan.
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Following a dirt road through meadowland and abandoned wheat farms on the east side of the Tigris River, we arrived at a ten-foot berm behind a trench that was at least as deep.
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Besides the millions trapped inside Syria whose lives are at risk daily, 75,000 Syrians are stranded in the Berm – a no-man's land on the Jordanian border – including children, pregnant women, and gravely ill patients.
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Lower Manhattan may eventually be encircled by a berm called The Big U that provides a waterfront promenade and doubles as protection against hurricanes like Superstorm Sandy, which flooded New York's financial district in 2012.
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Despite the alarming numbers at the berm, aid agencies and the government have been wary of speaking publicly about the refugee situation on the border because they did not want to anger the Jordanian government.
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The objects casting the shadows are held just over a berm behind which real humans walk with the objects elevated over their heads so that only these objects and not their bodies cast the images.
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The military, with American help, is building a desert wall: a sand berm about ten feet high, backed by a saltwater moat and electronic surveillance equipment, that extends a hundred miles southward from the sea.
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As soon as the new rice plants established themselves in one paddy, the farmers would create an opening in the field's surrounding dike, or berm, and allow the water to run into the next paddy.
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According to data collected by aid workers who service the berm, more than 18 per cent of people at Ruqban are aged four or under, and another 23 per cent are aged five through 11.
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"The situation at the berm offers a grim snapshot of the consequences of the world's abject failure to share responsibility for the global refugee crisis," Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International's crisis response director, said in a statement.
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Since a 1991 ceasefire, Western Sahara has been split by a earthen berm, with U.N. peacekeepers monitoring the Moroccan forces in what Rabat calls its southern provinces and guerrillas in the Polisario-controlled area bordering Algeria.
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After making a cut in the sand berm that served as the Kurds' fortified border with Islamic State territory the past two years, a column of pesh merga tanks, armored vehicles and sport utility vehicles advanced.
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Now that the dune lies on a good portion of the berm (the flat part where people tend to lay out their towels), there is scientific evidence suggesting the beach in front of the dunes could erode.
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The berm, rebuilt, would then slide back over the new road, burying it — at grade — while making room above for the so-called BQX streetcar, if that were ever to happen, and also acres of new parkland.
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Others are traders, smugglers, or people who have come to the de-facto waiting room between Syria and Jordan, but aren't ready to approach the berm and register their refugee claim with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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The FBI had recently surveilled the property — which is ringed by tires and an earthen berm and includes a buried travel trailer — but said there was insufficient probable cause to enter, the Taos County Sheriff's Office said Saturday.
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In the city of Lumberton, where the Lumber River overflowed its banks following Matthew, the city built a berm, an earthen wall along the riverbank to contain the rising current and prevent a repeat of the 225 flooding.
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But on Sunday, the combination of the dam and berm failed to stop the swollen river from climbing beyond its banks as it reached about 27.6 feet (7.3 m), rising 17 feet (5.2 m) in two days alone.
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The bulldozer went ahead, scraping away some of the pavement and building up a small berm to protect the convoy from any suicide bombers who might try to hit the dozens of Humvees as they traversed the road.
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In 2018, New York City will commence construction of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, known as the Big U, a 203-foot steel and concrete berm around Lower Manhattan, at a cost of more than $3 billion.
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According to internal NGO documents citing data collected by aid workers working in the area, more than seven percent of people on the berm are pregnant women—about double the average you might expect in a typical community.
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It came down to a leader's ability to inspire his troops for them to make that charge over the berm and—hopefully—secure a surrender or retreat from the suppressed enemy troops on the opposite side of the line.
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Related: 0003,000 Syrian Refugees Are Stranded in a Desert Purgatory Because Jordan Won't Admit Them While the Jordanian army polices the southern edge of the berm, they have zero oversight on what is happening deeper in the demilitarized zone.
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A CNN crew, traveling with US-trained Iraqi counterterrorism forces, was just 200 meters (219 yards) from Mosul's eastern perimeter on Wednesday, with just a barren berm between them and more than 1 million civilians trapped in the city.
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I've climbed to the top of a berm to better see the encampment and Syrian Baghouz when the captain tells me to mind my head and step down a bit, out of the line of fire of enemy snipers.
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The peshmerga occasionally give bread from their own provisions to the displaced children when they are hungry and wander up to the berm, but say they cannot let anyone through the front line unless they receive orders from above.
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But enough drivers had difficulty in the new corner — thanks to the reinstitution of the Sonoma Raceway carousel — that the competitors were greeted with a new berm in that corner when they came to the track for qualifying on Saturday.
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There is no control tower, no lights, certainly no U.S. uniforms to be seen -- just a berm of fresh earth thrown up to mark the perimeter and a tractor chugging along as it flattens the surface of the newly extended runway.
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In an effort to stop militant infiltration, Tunisia has built a 125-mile-long berm along half of the border with Libya, and says it has contracted American and German firms to install electronic surveillance equipment to further secure that border.
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Action taken so far — including Italian prosecution and U.S. sanctions against smuggling networks and a ditch and berm built by Tunisia on its border with Libya — had "not been enough to create a major disincentive for the fuel smugglers", Sanalla said.
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Snohetta imagined a tree-filled public garden going back there, stripping away the hulking four-story annex that long served as a de facto indoctrination center for Sony customers, adding a grassy berm and leafy nooks with plenty of seating.
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Danny Ray, fire chief in nearby Pelham, Alabama, said at the news conference that they were able to contain the fire in part because nearby workers with bulldozers were able to build an earthen berm to contain the burning gasoline.
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On the southern side, the area is policed by the Jordanian army, who say they have collected evidence—photographs from mobile phones, weapons, and bomb-making material—of Isis supporters and militants living on the berm, scattered amongst genuine refugees.
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But Iraqi forces have so far made quick advances on multiple fronts, capturing the northern city's airport on Thursday, which they plan to use as a support zone, and breaching a three-meter high berm and trench set up by Islamic State.
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CNN Senior International Correspondent Arwa Damon, traveling with US-trained Iraqi counterterrorism forces, was just 200 meters (219 yards) from Mosul's eastern perimeter on Wednesday, with just a barren berm between her and more than 1 million civilians trapped in the city.
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Authorities who entered the New Mexico compound — which was surrounded by tires and an earthen berm and included a buried travel trailer — found a harrowing scene including "no food or fresh water" and multiple loaded guns "within easy reach" of the kids.
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Read more: View from the top: Inside the Billionaire's Row skyscraper that just became the tallest residential building in the world at 1,550 feetThe pool, which will be shaped like an elongated oval, will be surrounded by a landscaped berm and splash pads.
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The final territory controlled by fighters of the so-called Islamic State was in the small town of Baghouz Al-Fawqani, just west of an earthen berm on the outskirts of the village where US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces started their push.
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Shortly before we arrived, we were told a suicide bomber in a truck had managed to maneuver around those troops on the frontline and barrel down towards the berm, but an airstrike destroyed the vehicle just a few hundred meters before it reached its target.
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To reach the SWAT team's new positions, my interpreter and I drove down Highway 2 until we reached a berm that had been heaped across the lanes, and then turned left onto an unpaved road with a decapitated corpse lying in the middle of it.
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In Escanaba, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a water main had broken during the worst of the cold, sending water spewing onto a road, cutting water pressure in the city, and forcing workers to try to contain it behind a berm of snow in subzero temperatures.
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The Marine Corps, Smith said, recently abandoned a plan to convert all its rifle ranges from yards to meters — an effort that would allow Marines to operate more easily with other services and other nations' militaries — because of the towering cost, estimated at $1 million per berm.
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"It has the effect of making this big box appear to float," said Gary Haney, a partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the architects of PSAC II. The berm also makes it appear, when seen from within, as if the center were surrounded by nature, not barriers.
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But two days ago, the South Dakota government officially refused the Yankton Sioux's request to call in the National Guard, telling the tribe and the public in a letter that the Yankton have "dirt" and "instructions" on how to build a berm to stave off the flooding.
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With more Syrians arriving than being admitted, the group has swollen from around 2,000 people in September, to 24,21 in December, by which time Human Rights Watch was already warning of a humanitarian crisis being created inside the berm zone by severe entry restrictions at the northeast border crossings.
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He drove over the desert berm that marked the Kuwait-Iraq border during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 for what Pentagon planners had said would be a short and relatively tidy liberation, and he stayed through repeated extensions of that mission as lawlessness ignited into insurgency in Iraq.
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According to recent arrivals into Jordan, the population in the berm zone leapt during two periods: the height of the Russian air campaign, when the Syrian city of Homs in particular was under heavy attack, and the cessation of hostilities agreed last February, when people felt it was safer to move.
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The idea would be to use landfill in front of the financial district and South Street Seaport to extend the coastline of the island by as much as 500 feet into the East River, creating a rising berm that would, at its highest point, be well above future sea levels.
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Not long ago, at the other end of the country, I camped out with my kids in a tamarisk grove by a Turkish military line from 25 — a high earthen berm that still swoops through miles of the Negev desert, running over a bridge across a desolate ravine before hitting the razor wire of the Israel-Egypt frontier.
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