Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yucca Mountain, Nev. Federally owned, the site northwest of Las Vegas covers part of Nellis Air Force Base, the Nevada nuclear-weapons test area and a Bureau of Land Management tract. A volcanic-rock formation 1,500 ft. below the surface would house the waste. Opponents believe that nuclear blasts at the test range could disturb the buried materials. Robert Revert, who owns gas stations in Beatty, estimates that 90% of local residents favor the dump. Says he: "Our young people are out of work. Maybe we could turn this around with Yucca Mountain...
...five months the two mountain men, Don Nichols, 53, and his son Dan, 20, had eluded lawmen in the remote Montana wilderness near Bozeman. Many residents figured that the fugitives, wanted for the July kidnaping of Kari Swenson, a member of the U.S. biathlon team, and for the murder of a man who helped rescue her, had fled the frigid region before the onset of winter. But not Sheriff Johnny France, who had attended the same high school as the elder Nichols. "I'm a mountain man too," he insisted. "It will take one to catch...
...them to other flights for delivery to their final destination. Smith chose Memphis International Airport as his hub because it is centrally located in the U.S. and is socked in by fog only about ten hours a year. Beginning at around 11 p.m., some 60 planes arrive with a mountain of packages to be sorted and reloaded on the jets, which take off again between 2:50 a.m. and 4 a.m. Federal's 761,000-sq.-ft. complex contains 20 miles of conveyor belts. Computers track the location of each parcel, enabling the company to meet its deadline...
...Declaration of Independence is there, and the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation. But they are just the summit of a mountain of American treasures that are preserved in a vast building on Constitution Avenue in Washington. This historical storehouse, 50 years old this year, is celebrated in The National Archives of the United States (Abrams; 289 pages; $49.50), with a knowledgeable text by Herman J. Viola, director of the National Anthropological Archives and photographs by Jonathan Wallen. Presidential papers go back to George Washington; State Department records to Revolutionary War naval prize cases; census records...
...mountain passages of this part of the world were like the bloody birth canals of civilization. Today Glazebrook finds mostly shards and indifferent descendants. Like VS. Naipaul, the best of contemporary novelist-travel writers, he takes a melancholy view of lands that are past their primes. In the city of Kenya he discovers a universal shabbiness imposed by the use of concrete: "The Asiatics' love of bright colors, too, is betrayed by the plastic paint they slap on everywhere, which flakes and peels as the colors of their native fabrics and tiles never did." A few passages border...