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Carl Sagan, by a long cosmic mile...
...after Thanksgiving, three women from the Sierra Club were hiking through the peaceful fir woodlands of beautiful Point Reyes National Seashore, 30 miles northwest of San Francisco. They got separated, and Diana O'Connell, 22, never met her two friends at the end of the trail. A search party found O'Connell and another hiker, Shauna May, 23, in a wooded area, both shot through the head, their nude bodies criss-crossed on the ground. About a mile away from that slaying, two fully clothed but decomposed bodies were also found. Shot in the head, they were lying...
...those words in 1852, he was only echoing the haughty contempt that many Easterners felt toward what map makers then labeled the Great American Desert. Even today, the eight states strung out along the Rocky Mountains are collectively the nation's most thinly settled (12 inhabitants per square mile, vs. 62 overall in the U.S.) and the most arid (12 in. rainfall, vs. 29 nationwide). Yet in addition to their wild beauty, these Mountain States contain such a magnificent array of national treasures that they are now being developed at a rate that may within a lifetime enrich them...
...lies in the Mountain West, with New Mexico and Utah supplying most of the region's ore. From Arizona comes more than half of all the copper dug in the U.S. each year; the Kennecott Copper Corp.'s Bingham Canyon open-pit mine in Utah, at two miles wide and a half-mile deep, the largest excavation in the world, alone has produced copper-over 11 million tons-than any other mine in history. The Climax mine near Leadville, Colo., last year supplied 49 million lbs. worth of molybdenum, a blue-gray mineral used primarily in strengthening steel...
...desperate for detectives." With school enrollment up 20% from 1979, most of the $1 million in funds voluntarily contributed by Amoco and Chevron are long gone, mostly for buses and classrooms. Roads torn up by the big rigs need constant repairing, and traffic jams a quarter of a mile long clog downtown streets. "We are suddenly loaded down with a lot of big city problems," says City Manager Steve Snyder. Adds Mayor Dennis Ottley: "It's driving us all crazy...