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The nationwide opioid crisis continues to plague California — even as individual counties record a plateau in deaths related to drug overdoses.

On Thursday, British authorities charged a pair of climate change activists for vandalizing Stonehenge, a prehistoric megalithic structure on a chalk plateau known as the Salisbury Plain.

Unseen forces drive a massive plateau of rock upward, carving spectacular features that one day will have names: Grand Canyon, Arches, Monument Valley.

It raises the question: Has horse racing plateaued in its effort to make the sport safer?

They are sprawling lands of seemingly endless vistas and soaring plateaus.