Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Louis, who held the boxing title for 12 years, died of a cardiac arrest. Shirley Brown. nursing supervisor at Desert Springs Hospital, said yesterday...
...from the same launch pad that sent Young and other Apollo astronauts to the moon, and spend 54½ hours racing around the earth before bringing down their magnificent flying machine-the most advanced spacecraft ever built-to a daredevil "dead-stick" landing in California's Mojave Desert. That is how a new era in space travel is scheduled to begin...
...turn at a speed of 400 m.p.h., it will be in a fighter-like dive seven times steeper than any commercial airliner's landing approach. (Without engine power, the orbiter is far easier to maneuver at high speed than at low.) At about 1,800 ft. over the desert and only 30 seconds before impact, Young will pull the nose up sharply, cutting air speed to 280 m.p.h., and drop the landing gear. Touching down at 215 m.p.h. (a comparably sized DC-9 lands at 149 m.p.h.). Young can only pray that his tires hold as the ship rolls...
...make away with an estimated $500,000 to $1 million worth of plants each year. Among them: the giant saguaro (pronounced sah-vrar-o), Arizona's state flower, which grows to 50 ft. or more. The fruit of the saguaro is an important food source for practically all desert birds and is used as well by humans to make preserves and, yes, cactus wine...
...California desert adjoining Arizona has been picked almost clean of saguaro, red-barrel cacti and other species. It takes a cactus-naper 15 min. to uproot a plant that may have taken more than a century to develop. And the frail root systems of most big cacti seldom survive the shock of transplanting. Plant experts in Arizona estimate that their cactus population, a major part of the flora, will virtually have disappeared in three or four decades. Though scientists do not entirely understand the full role of Cactaceae in the delicate ecology of the desert, they do know that...