Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After witnessing the successful test of the first atomic bomb--a primordial burst of energy on the predawn New Mexico desert, a man-made fire bright enough to flicker in reflection off the moon--Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell sought out his immediate superior, Major General Leslie R. Groves. Groves was commander of the top-secret Manhattan Project, which had been commissioned and funded--with $2 billion--to try to build such a bomb. "When Farrell came up to me," Groves remembered, "his first words were, 'The war is over.' My reply was, 'Yes, after we drop two bombs...
Many Western towns are tightening zoning codes, imposing construction moratoriums and limiting the number of building permits they issue. Moab, Utah, a desert town, has been overrun by spring breakers, mountain bikers and other newcomers; in response, the surrounding county imposed a subdivision moratorium. The fight over growth in the West is sure to be intensified by the selection of Salt Lake City, Utah, as the host of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, which will bring Olympic-size hype and a flood of tourists. "The Games will accelerate the environmental assault," says Alexis Kelner, co-founder of Utahans for Responsible...
...glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea- cup opens A lane to the land of the dead...
There are already several "Draft Powell" organizations in the field, operating without his blessing or his opposition. But their level of intensity does not put one in mind of Desert Storm. There are two committees registered with the Federal Election Commission, one based in California and one in suburban Washington. Andrew DiMarco, a California lawyer, calls his outfit the Draft Committee for Colin Powell's Army. So far he's collected 13,400 signatures urging Powell to run, but his drive is going into low gear until Powell gives some clearer sign of his intentions. The other committee...
...Cosmodrome, furthermore, is deteriorating rapidly from the harsh desert climate, from neglect and from outright theft and vandalism. Leaky roofs allow rainwater to flood the interiors of assembly buildings, and some of the launching pads are no longer usable. "People steal anything, even copper cable or sheet metal from the roofs of buildings," reports Sergei Leskov, a space correspondent for Izvestia. Last year a supply rocket reached Mir with part of its complement of food missing--evidently looted on the ground by launch crews. The danger is not so much of an accident, say U.S. space experts...