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...Colorado River begins high above the tree lines, amid the glaciers and snowpack on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. Icy rivulets collect and drip into streams, trickling and then plunging downward. In the peaks of eastern Utah, where the Green River hurtles south from Wyoming to meet the Upper Colorado, the water starts getting serious. It wants to reach sea level -- in this case the Gulf of California, some thousand miles to the southwest -- and nothing natural has ever managed to stand in its way. In its slashing, headlong rush, the Colorado gouged out a pretty impressive piece...
...PATRICIA LIMERICK, HISTORIAN, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
...personifies what in simpler times was called masculinity. No wonder the role lured some of the cinema's top exemplars of derring-do. Douglas Fairbanks (1922), Errol Flynn (1938) and Sean Connery (1976) made memorable glosses on the English lord -- and no matter that the actors hailed, respectively, from Colorado, Tasmania and Scotland. Fairbanks soared, Flynn grinned, Connery smoldered, and each struck singular movie sparks...
...Colorado College About 50 students wearing white armbands and paper peace doves turned their backs on the Secretary of Defense as he addressed his daughter Mary Claire's graduating class...
...Base, slated to close in 1993. In January a special session of the Oklahoma legislature approved a new 1% sales tax to pay for tax concessions, job-training subsidies and other lures. Boasts Ed Bee, Oklahoma City's economic development director: "We have a done deal." Well, not quite. Colorado has assembled a package worth at least $427 million, including 30 years of tax breaks, in hopes of landing the UAL jewel for the new international airport Denver is building. Governor Roy Romer will call his state legislature into special session next month to approve the goodies. UAL is expected...