Word: canyoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stay there. Today, Sierra Tucson is a different place. Where there used to be 313 beds for people with a host of mental-health problems, now there are only 70. The management has added to its offerings Miraval, a holistic health spa along the lines of the nearby tony Canyon Ranch. Some of those who still visit Sierra Tucson to cope with addictions do much of their therapy in short, intensive workshops. And more than three-quarters of them now pay the $650-a-night tab out of their own pockets...
...been the subject of speculation about life there for many years. We know, for instance, that there is enough moisture there to have ice deposits on its north and south poles and temperatures, though very cold, somewhat similar to those on earth. And you can see canyons on its surface, 50 times deeper than our own Grand Canyon, where water obviously flowed. The question is, What happened? What sort of catastrophic event finished life on that planet?" The remote-controlled Soujourner rover, no bigger than a microwave oven, will roll out of the Pathfinder lander on six wheels and roam...
...vast majority of Americans at any one moment, the deMeurerses weren't sick and didn't expect to get sick. Alan signed at 27, Christy at 32; their two children were young and healthy. This was insurance, something for a rainy day. They selected a medical practice--the Rancho Canyon Medical Group in Temecula, California--from a roster of those in Health Net's network. "We just wanted some basic protection," Alan says. "We were all very healthy people...
Christy petitioned her medical group, Rancho Canyon, for a different oncologist. By now the deMeurerses had decided to get the treatment any way they could. They made plans to begin raising money through appeals to friends and the public. "As grateful as we were," Alan says, "it was absolutely humiliating to have...
...Statue of Liberty is open again, just as the Thanksgiving Week vacation surge hits its peak, and thousands of tourists are headed for the awe-inspiring sight of the Grand Canyon. By ending the budget stasis now, President Clinton and GOP leaders have avoided not only the real pain that might be suffered by the needy who are dependent on federal social programs, but the spectacle of a lot of government-run operations growing seedy while federal employees were off duty. West Point cadets, for example, will not earn the sobriquet "The Longhaired Grey Line" after all, now that their...