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Enter Payne, a graduate of Arizona’s Mesa Community College and now a junior in Dunster House. Payne, a 6’3, 220-pound defensive end, has been tabbed by coaches and teammates as someone who can contribute right away to a defensive line heavily affected by graduation, even if he doesn’t start...
Indeed, the North Platte River is merely damp sand for long stretches. Local stores carry postcards of a lush, green Scotts Bluff that bears only a passing resemblance to the bare, tan-colored mesa that rises from the Nebraska prairie and once served as a landmark for settlers heading west on the Oregon Trail. Even the weeds have deserted miles of pasture, leaving nothing behind but swirling dust, starving antelope and bawling calves hungry for milk their mothers can't produce...
...what if Mother Nature doesn't comply? Some 35 miles west of Durango, in the Mesa Verde National Park, site of a fire in July, are the famous cliff dwellings of the Anasazi-or ancestral Puebloans, as they are now known-whose civilization flourished there until the end of the 13th century, when the combination of a 30-year drought, a population explosion and overuse of natural resources forced them...
...Greg Parker, junior Brian Garcia and junior transfer Brad Payne are among those reserves. Parker, a converted linebacker, will spell Brush at left tackle. Garcia had strong spring workouts as a sophomore, and could be one of the few non-seniors to contribute immediately. Payne is a transfer from Mesa Community College in Arizona who will figure into the jumble at defensive...
SENTENCED. JOSEPH MESA JR., 22, former Gallaudet University student convicted in May of the brutal murder of two of his fellow students, Eric Plunkett and Benjamin Varner, in their dorm rooms in September 2000 and February 2001 (see TIME, June 25, 2001); to six life-without-parole terms in prison; in Washington. Mesa testified that in a vision a pair of "black hands" directed him to kill...