Word: canyoneering
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...prints -- they will be invited to have their pictures scanned by a computer and stored on a "Photo CD" -- a compact disc that looks just like one that might play the latest Guns N' Roses release but in fact stores all the shots of the kids and the Grand Canyon in digital form. These newfangled photo albums hold up to 100 images, stored for a fee of about $1 a frame. They can be viewed, without risk of fading or fraying, on an ordinary television set using a special CD player...
...MURDERED COURIER, HIS BODY DIScovered on the rim of a New Mexico canyon; an attache case stuffed with the usual large sum of money; any number of strange disappearances: WHITE SANDS bedazzles mainly by the speed and dexterity with which it shuffles and deals its assorted plot elements. Eventually, corrupt FBI men, a guy who claims to be CIA (Mickey Rourke in a role small enough so he doesn't wear out his welcome), some crooked arms dealers and a sexy mystery woman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) all cherchez le loot. Director Roger Donaldson puts a curiously cheerful spin on paranoia...
...midden study covering 11,000 years of vegetation change in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, Julio Betancourt of the U.S. Geological Survey and Thomas Van Devender of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum found evidence that could explain why a once thriving Anasazi Indian community was abandoned 800 years ago. Simply stated, the Indians eventually used all the surrounding pine trees for their dwellings and firewood, depleting the woodland and eroding the farmland vital to the tribe's survival...
With Buchanan's success at the polls, the paleo-neo fault line widened into a canyon of controversy, as leading conservatives rushed to choose sides. Neoconservatives and many Reaganites lined up against Buchanan, dismissing his message as negative and exclusionary. Bush haters and old-line conservatives, particularly those disaffected by Washington's self-important neo-con luminaries, admired Buchanan's courage and supported him with money. Says Catholic University's Stuart Rothenberg: "Buchanan has been confusing for conservatives. They don't like what he says, but they're so anxious to see George Bush punished that their reaction has been...
...want snazzy backdrops? One scene is played in front of the Grand Canyon. "The Wages of Sin" is delivered in front of a chapel decorated with stained-glass tributes to St. Elvis, St. Cher, St. Frank (Sinatra) and St. Wayne (Newton). The finale happens at the Hitch `n' Run Marriage Parlor/Ditch 'n' Run Divorce Parlor (Mottos: Wedding for Good Dough/May Divorce Be With...