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...Site since 1961, views the protesters as "sincere in their feeling, but they don't understand the big picture." When he drives from his home in nearby Pahrump to the heavily guarded site, Moore enters a domain pockmarked with gaping craters, a lunar- like legacy of blasts thousands of feet underground. Many of Moore's 5,500 colleagues labor in cavernous horizontal tunnels that are bored into the granite mesas. To the worker, the test site represents not a nuclear underworld but a well-paid job. "You get used to it, feels like home," says Don Maxwell, 44, an underground...
Maxwell spends eight hours a day in P Tunnel, a shaft resembling a semifinished subway excavation 1,300 feet below Rainier Mesa. A narrow-gauge electric locomotive takes workers into the tunnel, which ends in a rocky cul- de-sac 1 1/2 miles away. Bare light bulbs dangle overhead, and the brilliant flare of a welder's torch flickers on the rock walls. Labyrinthine cables coil along the floor, and the tunnel reverberates with a sometimes deafening din, punctuated by shouts and horn blasts. In an eerily normal scene near ground zero, a surveyor chats on a Touch-Tone wall...
Gallery space totaling 17,000 square feet will allow the ICA to build a permanent collection for the first time, something which was impossible in the past due to its lack of sufficient exhibition space...
...Recently featured as the "fan site of the week" on the film's official web site, the slithery VenomousReptiles.org offers a dose of reptile reality -helping any Snakes on a Plane fan to appreciate just what Jackson and the other passengers are up against at 30,000 feet. Note the Snakes on a Plane event in the upper right corner of the page...
...Eyewitnesses told TIME that after sunset about 7 p.m. a bomb apparently placed in a sack exploded in front of the Al Capone restaurant. A few seconds later, another explosion occurred in front of the Neptune Hotel 100 feet across a footbridge on the promenade, which runs along Dahab's windswept beach. Another few seconds later, 100 yards further down the walkway past the Tota Dance Bar, a third bomb exploded in front of the Mona Lisa jewelry shop. Mohammed Ali, who runs a computer shop on the promenade, lost two friends amid the carnage, both waiters at beachfront restaurants...