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...persuaded my wife to spend our summer vacation in beachless South Dakota, and arrived at the base on a rainy June morning. There was no guarantee at the time that I would get a ride. I was offered a session in the B1 flight simulator and an opportunity to interview the pilots involved in the Mansur mission. One of the pilots, Capt. Chris Wachter, accompanied me in the simulator, an exact replica of a B1 cockpit. Hydraulic lifts under our seats shook our bodies as we "soared" through a series of acrobatic maneuvers through virtual skies. It wasn't until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Drawing the B-1 . . . to Flying It | 7/27/2003 | See Source »

...rush to the shores since World War II. Seawalls, jetties and other technologies aimed at protecting waterfront property only accelerate the loss of sand or starve nearby beaches. Unless politicians end the absurd subsidies that encourage development on shifting sands, Dean powerfully argues, America may face a future of beachless beach towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Against The Tide: The Battle For America's Beaches | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...rest of us, Sean was never really in awe of Harvard. A graduate of Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, where he lettered in three sports, Doyle says. "I thought Harvard was in Connecticut." Recruited to play volleyball, a quintessentially Californian sport that has hardly taken hold in beachless Cambridge, he had never even seen Harvard until he arrived on September 9, 1981. He was, he recalls, "the ultimate California...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: The California Kid | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

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