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Executive Outcomes, a South African mercenary business, recently invaded, stabilized, and controlled Sierra Leone for a year--interrupting a long-waged civil war--in order to protect that country's diamond mines.
R.M. Alexander's response (Nuisance dust better than no jobs, March 2-3, 1996) to concerns raised about dust generated by a local mining operation reply in large part on irrelevant ad homonym tactics by conjuring up the Sierra Club, their tree hugging ilk, and mining jobs lost to communities elsewhere.
Few people think of the Costa del Sol as a ski resort, but skiing can be enjoyed between December and May at the Solynieve resort near Granada, 160 km (100 miles) northeast of Málaga in the Sierra Nevada.
The local dark-sand beaches can be scrubby and the hotels themselves are isolated, but there’s lots to explore in the park, and the Sierra de La Gran Piedra rise majestically above the coast.
What’s more, it’s possible to be swimming in the Mediterranean while the snow-covered peaks of the Sierra Nevada shimmer in the distance.