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Manipulation by distant Mr. Bigs is an obsession here. Almost 90% of Nevada's land is owned and managed by the Federal Government--a distant imperial power to many locals. Ranching and mining are major industries, and both are feeling persecuted lately by certain cosmopolitan outsiders. In Eureka the taverns sell a T shirt bearing the words WRANGLERS: WESTERN RANCHER AGAINST NO GOOD LIBERAL ENVIRONMENTALIST S___HEADS. The pickup trucks sport a proud, defensive bumper sticker: IF IT WASN'T GROWN, IT HAD TO BE MINED. In a region where people's lives are dominated by forces beyond their power...
...cynicism about government out here because it's so far away," says Gibbons. "Every state has its believers in black helicopters, but our real problem is that the rest of the country sees us as a solution to its problems. Everybody wants to dump their waste here, but Nevada is not America's wasteland." When Gibbons half jokes that his district represents "the hub of the world, the middle of everywhere," a nearby constituent nods with no apparent sense of irony...
...beans, and do their loop-the-loops and smash things up, and then their superiors cover up for them. They don't want bad news to get out. We locals know, though." Presumably Wolfers is talking about the Navy again, although he never specifies who "they" are. In central Nevada, "they" might be anyone...
...suggests the sheep died from a lethal combination of nerve-gas traces and pesticides, the mixture some experts believe is responsible for Gulf War syndrome. Years later came another piece of disturbing news: it turned out that the nuclear-bomb tests conducted by the Pentagon in next-door Nevada from 1951 to 1962 were not safe after all. President George Bush acknowledged as much in 1990, and since then the U.S. has paid $67 million to 1,338 of the "downwinders," many of whom live in Utah and believe their exposure to radiation caused leukemia and other ailments. An apparent...
...Sound and the Fury" also had Controversy. Tyson's co-managers John Horne and Roy Holloway called for the dismissal of referee Mitch Halpern on the grounds that he had worked the first fight and might be prejudiced against Tyson. While the Nevada Athletic Commission refused to back down, Halpern pulled out the day before the fight, and Lane was named to replace him. There was more than a little irony in Tyson's being disqualified by the referee his people preferred...