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...that it was retiring the famed Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, it explained that satellites can do what the high- flying (100,000 ft.), 3,000-m.p.h. spy plane did and at less cost. But was the real reason that an even faster snooper is being developed in the Nevada desert? The 1986 defense budget contained a mysterious reference to the "Aurora" project. Now a prototype of the aircraft is reported to be rocking the desert with shock waves during test flights. Rumors say the Lockheed plane may be unmanned and can fly at speeds greater than Mach...
...Donald Trump fights to save his Atlantic City casino empire, he might cast an envious eye at booming Las Vegas. The desert Mecca of hype and high rollers is on a winning streak. Las Vegas casino revenues surged nearly 12% last year, to $3.2 billion, at a time when the take at Atlantic City grew just 2.6%, to $2.8 billion. The hot hand encouraged Las Vegas hoteliers to add 10,000 new rooms in the past year alone, a 16% increase. Last week more than 50,000 gamblers and gawkers flocked to the opening of the world's largest hostelry...
Islam Dara is a small mujahedin supply base nestled in jagged rocks beneath a circle of mountains, a desert oasis fed by a cold thin stream. Except for the sound of aerial bombing that burns red rings of brush fire above the enclave, Islam Dara seems sheltered. A few canvas tents are pitched amid boulders and mounds of ammunition: RPG-7s, launchers, bazookas. With its cool caves and grassy marshes harboring frogs, Islam Dara is a boy's paradise out of Kipling. But the dozen or so boys who stay there are living an idyll...
...slightest sound, the sentries -- rifle-carrying boys in gray or brown robes -- emerge from behind rocks. Under the direction of a handful of older soldiers, they work in the camp, fetching water, cleaning guns, tending the pack mules. Each night two or three of them slip into the desert alongside mules laden with water, food and ammunition and cross past the enemy to the forward posts three hours away. Each boy has his own AK-47, the only valuable object any of them has ever owned...
Though FX-10 shows enormous promise, it will not solve watering problems everywhere. Because part of its advantage depends on a reasonably shallow water table, even enthusiasts acknowledge that in certain locations -- on hillsides, for instance, or in parts of the desert Southwest -- the grass may require irrigation. Another limiting factor is temperature: as with other St. Augustine grasses, even a day below freezing proves deadly. Any place north of, say, Houston will not be hospitable...