Word: deserter
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Next month a B-52 will take off from Edwards Air Force Base in southern California carrying a payload that could spell the death of in-flight entertainment and plastic omelettes. Leaving the Mojave Desert, the crew will head for U.S. Navy test waters in the Pacific. On order, they will release a Pegasus missile from under their right wing and send it roaring up into the sky. At 31 km, more than double civil aviation altitude, a black, windowless, pilotless sliver of finned metal shaped like a flattened dart will separate from the Pegasus' nose and scream down into...
...Given the cost of propping up Réunion's economy, a whopping $2.7 billion per year in benefit payments alone, why does France do it? "It's more sentimental than rational," says De la Grange. "Réunion was a desert island before the French settled it in the 17th century...
...also find myself grumbling about coursepack prices or the lack of comfortable seating in Loker. But it is important to make a clear distinction between desert and desire here. Particularly in the light of the hard work put in by Har’d CORPS and the Progressive Student Labor Movement, the insistence that Harvard students, already the recipients of so much luck even to be here, deserve what really can be well described as luxuries, turns from a bit silly to rather sour...
...dryly. Photographer Herb Ritts is waiting outside to take her picture and sell Ralph Lauren to unsuspecting mortals foolish enough to believe that evening wear can turn anyone into a Spanish enchantress. "She's very spirited and loves to move," says Ritts. "I took her picture out in the desert. I told her to take off running and that's when she felt most at home. She wants to get out of the gate." Not unlike a lot of other Europeans of her generation...
Stuff a little extra parmesan into those desert-dry chicken Caesar salad wraps. Lie a layer of American along the bumps of Sunday scrambled eggs...