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...city's long-standing sense of carnival still flourishes. The casino boutiques may sell Gucci leather, but the Boardwalk is a bazaar of plastic beads, mugs shaped like women's breasts, and baby sand sharks in glass jars. When Las Vegas was nothing but a jukebox in the desert, Atlantic City had clam-eating tournaments and midget boxing matches; today one of the Boardwalk's main attractions is Celestine Tate, a disabled woman who lies on a stretcher like a beached mermaid and plays a Casio keyboard with her tongue...
...GEOGRAPHY OF LUCK. The drifters, gamblers and hustlers in Marlane Meyer's desert panorama mingle the doomed banality of Sam Shepard characters with the quixotic blessings of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. At the Los Angeles Theater Center...
...riding the waves, surfboards may forever be the favorite vehicle in Malibu, but Arizonans prefer inner tubes. The car or truck tubes rent for $6.25 a day at the Salt River recreation area outside Phoenix. Somewhat more economically, up at the Heady-Ashburn cattle ranch in Arizona's Sonoran Desert, Sonny and Nancy McCuistion and their two hired hands head for the cow troughs. "The cows are a little surprised at first, but they're gentle," says Nancy. "Of course when you get out, it feels funny riding back in wet Levi...
...with only limited success when it tried using more conventional forces to hit back at terrorists. When Jimmy Carter dispatched Marine helicopters to rescue the embassy hostages in 1980, the result was wreckage in the desert. Bombing runs over Lebanon in 1983 resulted in the capture of a naval aviator, Lieut. Robert Goodman, who was later retrieved by Jesse Jackson. Only the snatching of the Achille Lauro hijackers and perhaps the 1986 bombing of Libya could be considered effective in reducing terrorist activity...
...recently as 1987, the country had partly exempted itself from the CITES treaty in order to maintain imports of 14 endangered species, more than any other nation. Since then, Japan has reduced this number to eleven by agreeing to ban trade in the green sea turtle, musk deer and desert monitor lizard...