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Look west anywhere in Salt Lake Valley and you won't see the future--Americans' traditional association with that compass point--but the past. In Bingham Canyon, at the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains, five generations of copper miners spanning the 20th century have cleared a pit three-fourths of a mile deep and more than 2 miles across, seemingly large enough to catch the expansive Utah sky should it ever fall in. The sky hangs securely above, but the state's economy, which since 1988 had seemed equally horizonless, has slipped with everyone else's into a canyon-like...
...issues in the U.S. too. In Nevada, where Rio holds a 40% stake in a mine operated and 60% owned by Placer Dome, the Environmental Protection Agency is concerned about groundwater contamination from current mines and the potential for future damage to sacred lands of the Western Shoshone. In Salt Lake Valley, Rio Tinto has paid some $300 million in reclamation costs and is not finished. A 72-sq.-mi. plume of toxins, one of the world's largest, has rendered water from an aquifer beneath Salt Lake City undrinkable. Engineers must halt its spread and prevent public exposure...
...Laden is indeed to blame, he and his network will become targets of the most far-reaching and determined counter-terrorist operation in history. But even if we do find the culprits, how should we respond? Should we remake Afghanistan as a smoldering plain, plow the fields with salt, wreck a terrible vengeance...
...Francisco, where, after I paid him $725, he sat me down in a tiny school desk in a room with an ON AIR sign and a wall full of 8-by-10 glossies of all his students, two of whom were posing with puppets. Leiberman has a salt-and-pepper ponytail and a vanity license plate that reads BE FUNNYR, and counts Heidi Fleiss among his clients. It used to be so much easier to meet Heidi Fleiss...
...then stop as the sun sets and feed the camels before eating their own meal, usually more porridge or dried fruit. "The worst thing is when you run out of pasture and the animals get tired," says Adam's uncle, Ebuche Saghdou, who made his first salt trek 30 years ago at age 17. "They can last up to a week without water but without pasture they are not strong. You must leave them...