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Moore's supporters have compared him to Martin Luther King, to Daniel, and even to Moses. The son of a construction worker, Moore, 56, grew up in northeast Alabama and worshipped at a Baptist church, not "an overbearing church where they shout and dance around," says his brother Jerry, "just a nice little country church." Moore graduated from West Point, served in Vietnam in the military police and earned his law degree at the University of Alabama. After losing a hard-fought election for circuit judge in 1982, Moore turned from law to more exotic battles, training as a kickboxer...
...There's plenty of us who are cognizant of these issues, but you get knuckleheads everywhere," says Hack. Hueco Tanks State Historic Site, 30 miles northeast of El Paso, Texas, for example, was a popular destination for climbers until graffiti was found in the early '90s on some of the park's ancient rock art, and park officials severely restricted climbing. "Hueco was a wake-up call," says climber Tim Janke, 42. "If we fail to be good stewards, we'll lose what we have...
...social and economic disruption the blackout caused. The episode brought chaos to 50 million people in eight states and Canada and showed just how vulnerable the tightly knit network of generators and transmission lines is. In the wake of a similar wholesale crash of the system that sent the Northeast into darkness 38 years ago, the powers that be said they had enacted safeguards to ensure that such an epic loss wouldn't happen again. The experts assumed that if something went wrong, the culprit would be an act of nature, an equipment failure or a human error...
...also reflects the fact that West Nile has been moving inexorably westward since it arrived in the Northeast in 1999. Diseases tend to expand their range until something stops them, and because this one is transmitted mostly by mosquitoes, which live in every state, there's not much stopping it. (It can also be transmitted by blood transfusion, but on July 1, the Food and Drug Administration authorized two experimental tests now being used on the nation's blood supply...
...road we raced on--93A from Wendover, in the state's northeast corner, south toward Ely--was smooth and well marked, with enough turns and hills to keep it challenging and still fast. I swept around curves at 95 m.p.h., took a moment to admire the Nevada mountains at 105 and waved at course workers at 110. I got used to scanning my field of vision miles out in front (as pilots do), to the hypersensitivity of the car, to movements of the wheel and the wind noise. I hit 120 when my co-pilot, Andy Monheiser, reminded...