Word: debora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest storm out on the plains. Frank Popper, head of Rutgers University's urban-studies department, is a land planner who has poked his way down the neglected and withering trails of the plains for 20 years, wondering if a new frontier is struggling to be born. His wife Debora is a graduate student in geography. They swept up the entire region, from Texas to Montana, in their analysis. Their language was apocalyptic ("largest, longest-running agricultural and environmental miscalculation in the nation's history"), their images devastating ("dreams, drought and dust") and their predictions frightening ("a wasteland, an American...