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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a B-1B bomber crashed in September on a simulated bombing run over Colorado, killing three of its six crewmen, there were fears that the plane, at a total program cost of $27 billion, could not perform its core mission of low-level attack. Designed to foil enemy radar by sweeping across terrain from as low as 200 feet above ground, the B-1B had crashed, said investigators, after colliding with a flock of large birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Force: Bird-Watching Bombers | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...human-rights movement, has remained, isolated and in need of surgery he cannot get in the Soviet Union. Soviet authorities point to his once classified work for the Soviet Academy of Sciences 30 years ago as an excuse to prevent him from joining his only relative, a daughter in Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Issue That Will Not Fade | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...artifacts, relics and sacred objects, all of which can be profitably offered for sale: Tibetan bells, exotic herbal teas, Viking runes, solar energizers, colored candles for "chromotherapy," and a Himalayan mountain of occult books, pamphlets, instructions and tape recordings. Some of these magical products are quite imaginative. A bearded Colorado sage who calls himself Gurudas sells "gem elixirs," which he creates by putting stones in bowls of water and leaving them in the sun for several hours, claiming that this allows the water to absorb energy from the sun and the stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...huge stockpiles -- a sign that prices will stay low until those inventories can be reduced. Moreover, this year's farm- income figures were inflated by $22.4 billion in Government subsidies, including $12 billion paid to farmers to leave idle 68.5 million acres of cropland (an area bigger than Colorado). Now those payouts are threatened by Washington's efforts to slash the federal deficit. "This has been a good year, but everyone's looking over his shoulder," warns Iowa State University Economist Neil Harl. "There are still some dark clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeds Of Recovery in the Farmbelt | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...down energy costs. Says Iowa Farmer Jack Drake: "I'm making fewer passes across my fields with machinery and looking everywhere for least- cost methods." Strawberry farmers on the California coast have begun covering their soil in plastic to keep fruit from rotting on the ground. Farmers close to Colorado State University are taking seminars to learn how to use computers for better money management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeds Of Recovery in the Farmbelt | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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