Word: canyoneering
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...parks. They may seek out, instead, wild areas closer to home that have 'been bypassed by the Winnebago set. Such spots can be discovered almost anywhere and are worth the effort. Finding one, as 22-year-old Mike McCorkle of Montgomery, Ala., said on first sighting the Grand Canyon, is "sorta like sex. They's some things better and some things worse, but they ain't nothin' exactly like...
...temperature and ion concentrations will be relayed to earth by the Viking orbiter. Slowed by a parachute, the lander will spread its three spidery legs and will be braked by retrorockets for what is hoped will be a gentle setdown near the mouth of a 2,500-mile-long canyon, perhaps the site of a former drainage basin. (Viking II's lander is targeted for an area near the planet's north polar hood, where moisture may still exist.) Instead of jet fuel, which would contaminate Mars with hydrocarbons, the landers' descent rockets are powered by purified...
...house in the exclusive Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, and have been spending the summer on an even more exclusive island in Newport Beach, Calif., where his wife's family has a New England-style residence. Although he has dropped out of the Big Canyon Country Club, he and his wife occasionally attend private parties. Friends say that Haldeman's ordeal has tapped new strengths and vitality and he is bearing up with Christian Scientist calm. He takes tennis lessons and plucks away at the guitar...
...fiddled with my watch chain, adjusted my Grand Canyon lapels, and forged into a gaggle of tweeds. The sallow faces above the collars were debating the relative merits of the various Supreme Court justices they had clerked for. At the next awkward power is the conversion, one of them turned is me. "I'll, you're Andy Klein, aren't you? I was in your freshman dorm. I'm Alex Forbush. What have you been doing with your life?" My mind reeled. Can I tell him I've been washing dishes, driving delivery vans, waiting on tables...
...French Market renovation. "Don't they understand they're destroying an international landmark? It's like putting arms back on the Venus de Milo," he grumbled, "like fixing up the Colosseum in Rome and staging live gladiator events, or like filling in the Grand Canyon and putting up a patio and serving dinosaur burgers...