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...five training centers in the U.S. that deal with nuclear, biological and chemical threats. New Mexico concentrates on high explosives. It has another facility, a 40-sq.-mi. range in the mountains outside Socorro, which actually blows things up. There, this class watches from half a mile away as plastic explosives rip through two offices, mangling their dummy occupants. Later, a 1988 Thunderbird with 200 lbs. of ammonium nitrate in the trunk erupts in a massive geyser of flame, raining jagged steel onto the barren hills...
...morning was horrendous, and with an estimated 9,000-plus Austin-area delegates eager to line up for their convention credentials, party officials had to extend the sign-in time until almost noon. Worried they would not make the deadline, many delegates decided not to wait in a two-mile traffic jam and simply parked their cars along the side of the road and walked...
...grass-roots movement to "Ban the Bomb" was gathering force in the United Kingdom. Early that year, a fledgling disarmament group called the Direct Action Campaign (DAC) started to put together what would be Britain's first major demonstration against nuclear weapons. The plan was for a 52-mile (84 km) march from London to the town of Aldermaston, home to an A-bomb research center...
From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the Amazon. Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this year; Carter, a Texas cowboy with all the subtlety of a chainsaw, says it's going to get worse fast. "It gives me goose bumps," says Carter, who founded a nonprofit...
...Estimated cost per ticket aboard the proposed four-passenger craft. The 10,600-mile (17,000 km) journey currently takes more than 21 hours and costs about...