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...successful, the NASA schedule will then call for nine flights next year and another nine in 1990. One hitch: there may not be enough solid rocket fuel. The shortage, which will begin next year, is the result of a series of explosions in early May that destroyed a Nevada plant that produced about 50% of the nation's ammonium perchlorate. The compound constitutes about 70% of the solid fuel used in the shuttle boosters...
...large metropolitan airport has been sited since 1961. The lack of locations for new prisons has caused such overcrowding that / some cities have had to release convicted prisoners." Worse, the solutions to these conflicts have tended to be quick fixes. After years of squabbling, Congress finally chose Nevada as a site for nuclear-waste storage, mainly because the state wielded less political clout than the other two contenders, Texas and Washington...
Fire is an ever present danger. Lightning in the eastern Sierra Nevada has sparked more than 80 fires. In Wisconsin, where 87 fires charred 250 acres last week, the state has ordered a ban on all types of outdoor fires, including barbecues and cigarette smoking, in rural areas...
...indignities of sex. The first of a projected 20 volumes of Mark Twain's letters follows the literary apprentice -- at first still using his real name, Samuel Clemens -- as he flees Hannibal, Mo., to become a river pilot, then a journalist covering the gold-intoxicated frontiers of Nevada and California...
When spring roundup comes, few ranchers expect to find every head of cattle at once. Some are bound to stray; others might have fallen to illness or predators. But when Bart and Lilly O'Toole gathered in their stock from winter grazing in Nevada's Reese River Valley, they were dismayed to find 20 cows missing from a herd of 200. When none turned up on neighbors' lands or in Nevada stockyards, the O'Tooles knew that 10% of their herd had been rustled. Says Lilly O'Toole, 43: "I'm sure they're slaughtered and made into hamburger...