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...valleys, the U.S. Forest Service most of the uplands. The Defense Department too claims huge chunks of the county, including the Nevada Test Site, where it detonated hundreds of nuclear devices, and the Tonopah Test Range, the darling of paranormal buffs, who know it by the nickname Dreamland and suspect that all manner of spooky events have occurred there. Even the airspace over Nye is largely restricted to military aircraft. Jet fighters scream up Carver's Big Smoky Valley, occasionally roaring past cars at sagetop altitude. A bank of nuclear-radiation sensors, still religiously monitored, stands outside the county...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNREST IN THE WEST: NEVADA'S NYE COUNTY | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...hangover" side-effects of grogginess, headache and exhaustion. Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., made the discovery by putting cats on a moving treadmill and depriving them of sleep for up to 18 hours, then studying changes in their chemistry once they drifted off to dreamland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAT NAP IN A BOTTLE | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

McVeigh checked into the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, on Friday, April 14, signing his own name in the register and giving the Decker, Michigan, address of James Nichols. During his stay, McVeigh rented a Ryder truck and parked it in the Dreamland lot far from his room, No. 25. He checked out on Tuesday, the day before the bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH AND HIS RIGHT-WING ASSOCIATES: WHO ARE THEY? | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

...after 10 career concussions. N.F.L. players even have their own concussion-related argot. Mild blows are known as dingers or bell ringers (because players usually have a ringing in their ears), and a player who has suffered a severe hit is said to have been "sent to dreamland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chin Music | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...this visual failure breaks the spell and blunts the ballet's appeal. The best solutions to filming dance were worked out in 1930s musicals. It's hard to fly to dreamland if you have to keep deciphering the signals. Fred Astaire -- who insisted on clarity above all else -- would groan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Not So Cracked Nut | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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