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Word: centroid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides, and the land in between is sagebrush open range populated by scrawny cattle and dotted with eerie bunkerlike structures with names like "U.S. Navy Centroid Facility." From the south, near the infamous secret air base known as Area 51, talk-radio guru Art Bell spreads news of UFOs and sunken continents. To the northwest, in the Black Rock Desert, hippies and cyberpunks gather by the thousands for their annual Burning Man Festival, an orgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTIN, NEVADA: CONSPIRACY, U.S.A. | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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