Word: nevadas
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...most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives," Twain once wrote. Great yarn spinners are few and far between these days, but one place to find a passel of them is Nevada City, Calif., about 115 miles west of Virginia City. Each summer the old gold-mining town is host to the Sierra Storytelling Festival. "You can put a six-year-old and a 90-year-old together," says founder Steve Sanfield, "and with the right story, they will both feel a deep connection." Tickets for this year's festival (July...
...plans to head over to the MIT Museum to see the exhibit chronicling Harold "Doc" Edgarton's experimental strobe photography. The show features such famous photographs as "Shooting the Apple" (1964) and "Milkdrop Coronet" (1957), as well as a photo taken of a nuclear bomb being tested in a Nevada Desert, entitled "Atomic Bomb Explosion" (1957). The Museum is at 265 Mass. Ave. 253-4444 for more information...
...other concerned operations: project personnel (including me) were active participants in the famous series of atomic bomb tests held at the Nevada Test Site at Camp Mercury over several years in the 1950s...
After more than $2 billion and a decade of study, the Energy Department gave an amber light on Friday to proceed with the development of an underground nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. The department cautioned that some issues still need to be resolved before a final decision is reached in 2001. "The report indicates that Yucca Mountain will be the site," says TIME science writer Michael Lemonick, "but now get ready for years of litigation from anti-nuclear activists...
Monty's understanding of the unspoken language of horses coalesced in his early teens, he writes, during a magical trip to Nevada to round up mustangs for a race in Salinas. He, Larry and a friend named Tony Vargas made the trip together, camping and studying the mustangs. So says the British edition of his book, published two years ago. But both Larry and Vargas deny that such a trip occurred. "They're lying in their teeth," says Monty. In the U.S. edition, published last year by Random House, Monty told a similar story but used the names of Ralph...