Word: domes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forest floor is less than half what it usually is." Significant rain doesn't usually reach the region until July or August. So far, U.S. Forest Service officials have been able to contain the blazes before they caused extensive damage to private property. Last week's 16,000-acre Dome Fire threatened the Los Alamos National Laboratories, where much of the early research on atomic energy was conducted, but no damage to the station was done...
...evidence that our proud traditions are changing. No longer are leaders like Joe Moakley and Ted Kennedy able to keep uncooperative voices silent. For many its a sad fact--almost as if Wolfe burned down Fenway Park and slapped back up some pre-fab cousin of the Georgia Dome. A new, much less distinctive way of life, is taking over the city of Boston...
...twirl across the blank. The car is out there somewhere, represented by a subtle bump in the snowfield. The old Jeep truck, a larger beast, is up to its door handles, like a sinking remnant: dinosaur yielding to ice age. The town's behemoth snowplow passes on the road, dome light twirling, and casts aside a frozen doe that now lies, neck broken, upon the roadside snowbank, soon to vanish under the snowfall still to come...
...second is an analysis that claims to fix the precise location where the Ark of the Covenant (the "Lost Ark" of Raiders fame) was stored. That's sure to be controversial; the author contends that it must have been placed in a rectangular indentation on the outcropping beneath the Dome of the Rock, the sacred Muslim shrine on the Temple Mount...
Walt Disney himself had the original idea for a Disneyfied utopia, built under a giant dome, where residents would be whooshed from skyscraper to skyscraper on a high-speed monorail. As Walt envisioned it, no retirees would be allowed to live in his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, and nobody could own property. It was to be a paradise of young renters, a notion that surely would have been vigorously opposed by the senior-citizen lobby. But Disney died in 1966, before the plans were drawn...