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PEOPLE IN PARTS OF NEVADA AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAVE noticed the loud sonic booms and strange pulsing noises for months. Seismologists at Caltech have been picking up echoes of extremely fast overflights heading east from Los Angeles. Now Royal Air Force radar technicians at the NATO base in Machrihanish, Scotland, have identified the cause of it all. Officially, the U.S. Air Force is mum. But insiders say Lockheed has been test-flying AURORA, the top-secret hypersonic U.S. spy plane, code-named "Senior Citizen," which can fly at speeds exceeding 4,000 m.p.h. That's about 90 min. from Washington...
...past two years, two-way video telemedicine projects have been launched in Texas, Georgia and West Virginia, while less sophisticated methods relying on still photography have cropped up in Iowa, North Carolina and Nevada, among other states. U.S. doctors via satellite have diagnosed conditions in patients in Armenia, the Philippines and Belize. "It's a way of cloning the specialist and sending him out to locations around the world," says Dr. Jay Sanders, a telemedicine pioneer now teaching at the University of Miami...
...distributing a map of America these days that offers its vision of the future. If Roe is overturned, naral predicts that just seven states, mostly along both coasts, can be counted on to keep abortion easily available. Across the broad middle of America, an area stretching from Idaho and Nevada east to Kentucky and Tennessee, the group foresees a nearly unbroken regime of tough new obstacles and outright prohibitions. Though opponents of abortion say the other side is overstating the threat as a way to mobilize supporters, they are quietly confident of roughly the same outcome...
...citizens, and one of them is Wilson, who was mayor of San Diego at the time of the Harris murders as well as an outspoken supporter of limits on appeals. Since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, only five non-Southern states (Illinois, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Indiana) have executed prisoners. Many opponents are now worried that California could open the way to more. But few legal experts expect a surge of executions because of the arduous appeals process that is automatically launched in every capital case. Even in California, experts say, most of the appeals...
Eschewing his gubernatorial record and instead running on a platform of environmentalism and space exploration (hence the nickname "Moonbeam"), Brown presented himself as the alternative to Carter and won five late primaries--Maryland, New Jersey, Nevada, Rhode Island and California...