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Decareau followed the program and then flew out this March to Yuma, Ariz. ("the middle of nowhere") where the Padres hold their spring training camp...
...dawn outside Oracle, Ariz., this week, amid Indian chants and whirring cameras, four men and four women clad in bright red jumpsuits will wave % farewell to this world and enter a newly minted one. For two years they will live inside a sealed terrarium, about the size of 2 1/2 football fields, that mimics a more primitive earth. Tending their crops and livestock, they will receive nothing from outside. Dubbed Biosphere 2 (the earth is Biosphere 1), the glass-and-steel-enclosed structure has been seeded with 3,800 species of plants and animals in five different wilderness ecosystems...
Discrimination against Hispanics is less sweeping but nonetheless apparent. In a 1990 survey of 20 courses on the pro-golfing circuit, nine said they had Hispanics as members; one declared it had none. The other 10 courses did not respond on the issue. Says Rudy Berumen, a Tempe, Ariz., member of the Mexican-American Golf Association: "It's not that easy for a Hispanic to join some clubs around here. But it would be tougher for a black, unless he was a Governor or Senator...
This week, at an astronomy conference in Flagstaff, Ariz., scientists will add an intriguing twist to the Alvarez scenario. Their interpretation is based on new evidence that the Cretaceous-clay boundary actually consists of two parts: a thin layer overlying a more substantial one. To Eugene Shoemaker, of the U.S. Geological Survey and a co-author of the report, two layers indicate not one but two impacts...
...strains of reunion have been hardest for veterans who are single parents. Last November, June Cooper of Mesa, Ariz., left behind her son Jason, 4, who is deaf in one ear, when the 403rd Combat Support Hospital, an Arizona reserve unit, was called up. The boy spent weekdays with the director of his preschool and weekends with his grandparents. When Cooper returned after a six-month tour of duty in Saudi Arabia, she found it was a struggle at first. "Jason just clung to my side, everywhere I went -- he even followed me to the bathroom. He was always asking...