Word: desert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the Mojave Desert, a B-1 dives to a fiery...
...purpose of test flights is to flirt with what pilots call the outer edge of the envelope, to push a plane to the limits of its capability and see what it can do. That is what one of the prototypes of the sleek plane was attempting over the Mojave Desert near Edwards Air Force Base in California last week when it plunged to the ground in a fiery crash. It was the first serious accident in 418 test flights of B-1 prototypes since...
...after Nevada is fast becoming a water wasteland: tens of millions of dollars' worth of property has been destroyed, wildlife has diminished catastrophically, and tourism around the lake has bottomed out. Says Utah Governor Scott Matheson, with tragicomic wit: "It's a helluva way to run a desert...
...that began to change in 1980 when the National Radio Astronomy Observatory inaugurated the Very Large Array (VLA), an extraordinary $78.3 million string of 27 radio telescopes set out like giant Dixie cups across 21 miles of the desert of New Mexico. The VLA is one of a kind: the separate signals received by the 27 instruments can be melded into a single seamless picture, providing scientists with huge, highly detailed portraits of the heavens. Pointing the VLA toward the galactic center, Yusef-Zadeh and his Columbia colleague, Don Chance, along with Astronomer Mark Morris of UCLA, mapped...
...Seventh Veil (1945) to The Deadly Affair (1967), he polished his image as the ruthless lover. Behind his sophisticated sadism there was often the suggestion of a dark past and a doomed future, shrouding such troubled protagonists as the Irish fugitive in Odd Man Out (1946), Rommel in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and the drunken Norman Maine in A Star Is Born (1954). As his matinee-idol features aged, his performances became comically macabre: his Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962) is a tour de force of nympholeptic longing. In his last decade, Mason lived...