Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevada's Great Basin is a paranoid Holy Land, and no place is better suited for the job. Topography is destiny out here. It is the only region in North America where falling water has no outlet to the ocean (it lies trapped, then evaporates back into the atmosphere). The thin, spreading crust of the valley floors is notoriously unstable, agitated. Hot springs steam up through faults and fissures. Whirling dust devils dance across the flats. The mountain ranges are new, still rising, alive; perched on top of this tectonic tumult, the structures of civilization seem to teeter. The schools...
...feeling persecuted lately by certain cosmopolitan outsiders. In Eureka the taverns sell a T shirt bearing the words WRANGLERS: WESTERN RANCHER AGAINST NO GOOD LIBERAL ENVIRONMENTALIST S___HEADS. The pickup trucks sport a proud, defensive bumper sticker: IF IT WASN'T GROWN, IT HAD TO BE MINED. In a region where people's lives are dominated by forces beyond their power to influence--the swings of the metals market, the grazing policies of the Bureau of Land Management, the caprices of the U.S. military and the earth's seismic churning that underlies everything--paranoia may be not a pathology...
...tossed it several feet into an alley. A 38-year-old woman from Mount Morris Township, near Flint, was also killed by a falling tree. "It looked like "The Wizard of Oz,'" said one local resident. The storms blanketed Michigan, Indiana and Ohio with dark, menacing clouds, drenching the region with heavy rains that left some roads flooded up to car windshields...
...says Fang Jing, a Beijing schoolteacher, "we have opened the door to change. You can't keep new ideas out, and you can't slam the door shut again." The very inequalities unleashed in the sprawling nation, says Wang Shi, will keep pushing development forward as each town or region strives to catch up with another. "People simply won't go backward," he says, "so we'll continue to go forward. The government can't stop it. It won't stop...
...however, soon turned up evidence that Beijing was reneging on its promise. The agency maintains a vast network of informants in Asia who report movements of weapons-related equipment in the region. By last summer the CIA concluded that China had delivered to Pakistan not just missile parts but also more than 30 ready-to-launch M-11s that are stored in canisters at the Sargodha air force base west of Lahore. The Pakistanis were also working to build nuclear warheads small enough to fit atop the missiles...