Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coast to Coast originates from a most unlikely spot: Bell's double-trailer module home on the outskirts of the tiny desert town of Pahrump, Nevada (pop. 7,400), about 50 miles from Las Vegas. There, Bell sits at a telephone console, punching buttons to take incoming calls. Playing a mildly aggressive but avuncular host, he rarely interrogates or challenges his callers. "Instead of trying to pin them against the wall 60 Minutes-style," he says, "I help them tell their story...
...laser-gun battle pitting a 2,000-soldier "experimental force" against the toughest men in the war-game business, Fort Irwin's vaunted 2,000-man "opposing force." OPFOR had the home-turf advantage, with a 90% win record in this 20-sq.-mi. stretch of the Mojave Desert. But Oaks' EXFOR had a secret weapon: humvees and M-1 tanks crammed with enough computers and state-of-the-art communications gear to put every soldier inside the military equivalent of an America Online chat room, with instant access to grunts and commanders alike...
...Mojave last week, however, nothing went quite according to plan. The desert's talcum-powder-like dust played havoc with the computers' fans and trackballs. The sky was so full of electronic communications that conventional radio messages couldn't get through. And even though the rules of engagement barred OPFOR from trying to jam EXFOR's electronics, time-consuming glitches bedeviled the high-tech team. "There's so much information coming through that the computers are locking up and we have to reboot," said Oaks. He also complained about the 30 minutes he had to spend offline every time...
...high school I used to dream about being the only man on a desert island with a whole band of nymphomaniacs...
...These desert detours may not look like much, but they pass through the brand-new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah--a 1.7 million-acre tract that many consider the most beautiful spot in the U.S. The trails that crisscross it are scars from the latest tactic in one of the region's most bitter land wars...