Word: deserts
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...tirades against the Times even extend to making suggestions on decor: he wants the paper to take down its plaque honoring its 1930s Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, whom he accuses of being a "Pulitzer prizewinning apologist for Stalin." Another Pulitzer prizewinner on Irvine's hit list is CNN's Desert Storm superstar, Peter Arnett, who, according to Irvine, "may have done more than any other single reporter to help make Ho Chi Minh's morale-sapping strategy work." Arnett, of course, does not have a plaque at the Times building...
Even after that, most Americans tended to regard the state as a remote and mysterious place notable only for the Great Salt Lake, striking desert landscapes and the multiple marriages of some of its inhabitants. But while outsiders snickered, Utah was working a quiet revolution. It now boasts the nation's youngest, best-educated and most productive work force. It has launched an aggressive economic development program to create new jobs at a rate of 30,000 a year. About 80% of these positions were started by local entrepreneurs. But Utah has also lured such companies as Delta Air Lines...
...electromagnetic isotope separation. Used by Manhattan Project scientists in the 1940s, the technology is considered so obsolete that it is discussed openly in scientific literature and can be built from relatively common electrical components. Though time consuming and unreliable, it nonetheless fooled American intelligence officials, who scoured the Iraqi desert with satellites for signs of more modern enrichment plants. Without the help of an Iraqi defector who turned up unannounced at American lines in northern Iraq last March, the U.S. would still be underestimating Saddam's nuclear potential...
...were burying equipment in the sand. Any attack now would only be partially successful at best and, U.S. officials fear, might lead Saddam to retaliate against Israel or the Kurds. As Bush admitted, it's hard to "certify" the locations "when you're burying component parts off in the desert somewhere, in somebody's attic or somebody's basement in downtown Baghdad...
...business of targeting Saddam Hussein," President Bush insisted during Operation Desert Storm. But that did not stop people from weighing the practical and moral aspects of assassination as a weapon in wartime. And according to U.S. military attack plans obtained by TIME last week, it wasn't for lack of trying that American forces failed to kill Saddam during six weeks of unrelenting aerial bombardment. The targeting documents, including some dated Jan. 14, 1991, two days before the bombing began, list the "Baghdad Presidential Palace," the "Taji Presidential Retreat," a few miles north of Baghdad, and the "Abu Ghurayb Presidential...