Word: cibola
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Given that concussions can be difficult to spot, the trickiest aspect may be getting kids to bench themselves after they're thumped. "You don't want to miss out," says Ryan Williams, a senior at Cibola High School in Albuquerque, N.M., who suffered two concussions this season and one last season. "You want to help your brothers." Of course, you can't help them, or yourself, if you don't know when to stay out of the game...
...points out in his affectionate Appreciation, are "very cinematic. They...don't just move from panel to panel, but flow in sequences-sometimes several pages long." Fans of the Lucas-Steven Spielberg adventure lark Raiders of the Lost Ark will discover a progenitor in The Seven Cities of Cibola. Indeed, Barks' stories and Lucas' Star Wars sagas share not only a gentle satiric edge but a kind of giddy imagination that leads into territory that is, in all senses of the word, fabulous...
...through the night. In southern Montana, where the proud Sioux won their great victory, bulldozers scrape away the topsoil of cliffs to reveal vast seams of coal below. In western New Mexico, where legends tell of the Spanish explorer Coronado searching for the Seven Cities of Cibola, drills sink into the earth in search of uranium. The Mountain States hold vast deposits of the nation's coal, oil and uranium; they are at the heart of any U.S. energy program, and thus of the nation's future. The boom is sweeping far beyond the coalfields and oilfields. Construction...
...into New Mexico's Sandia Mountains went three forest rangers, a local lawyer, and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 66, there for a quick refresher course in outdoor living. At 10,000 ft., the view from the top was "splendid," but on the way down through Cibola National Forest, bitter cold, high winds and 15-ft. drifts from a sudden snowstorm turned the nightwalk into a nightmare. It took them nine hours instead of the usual five to negotiate six miles on snowshoes, edging their way down the steep switchback trails sideways like crabs. "We all had spills...
...Christopher Columbus, who took hardy, long-horned Moorish stock from Spain's Andalusian plains and dropped them off in 1493 at Santo Domingo on his second voyage. From there they were taken to Mexico. Half a century later Coronado, bound north in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola, drove 500 head across the Rio Grande for food along the way. Some escaped, and the famed longhorn found a home in Texas...