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...days a week, Shannon Rogers kisses his wife and two young kids goodbye and wheels his battered 1989 Chevy Cavalier out of the driveway of his suburban Nevada home. The houses here are cookie cutter, done in beige stucco. Like most of the other dads and some moms in this traditional middle-class community, Rogers heads down Interstate 215, toward his job near Las Vegas, using the 30-minute drive to make the mental transition from family man to workplace professional. But Rogers will end up in a place far different from that of his fellow commuters: when he arrives...
Certainly the decisions they face are life and death, as TIME observed when it was recently granted exclusive access to operations of the Air Force's 15th Reconnaissance Squadron, which commands 25 Predators from Nellis. It was 10:30 p.m. in Nevada, 9:30 a.m. in Iraq, and after two hours of watching insurgents fire a pickup-truck-mounted .50-cal. machine gun at U.S. troops in western Iraq, Rogers and the sensor operator with whom he works were given the command to shoot the truck. Both developed a case of what Rogers calls the "trembles"--the nervousness of wanting...
REMOTE-CONTROL WAR NEVADA...
...Women make more money these days, they're calling the shots, they're more powerful. And let's face it, it's hard to meet someone." HEIDI FLEISS, former "Hollywood Madam" on why she struck a deal to open a Nevada brothel that will cater exclusively to female clients
...bell peppers, Adams took the requisite large-format view camera (he shot each frame on huge, eight-by-ten-inch sheets of film) into the wilderness.The resulting images have defined Ansel Adams and the American West. There’s the captivating “Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, 1944,” with an imposing white mountain range in the background and a foreground shrouded in uneven shadow as the sun sets. There’s the photographer’s most famous image, “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941,” in which he does...