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...stark contrast to what happened after the Khobar Towers bombing, which killed 19 American military personnel and wounded 372 others. An agent who worked on that case recalls, "The Saudis went out and grabbed everything in sight before we got there. They just let us amuse ourselves by sifting sand...
...Often times they will use a special absorbent material. It could be sand. It will suck up any of the free liquids...and bind to the oil,” Griffin said...
...change of scene, you can saunter along the lengthy peaks of the Sand Dunes near Stovepipe Wells, where desert winds have deposited grains of mountain quartz in a beach-like expanse that covers 15 sq. mi. Or you can visit Devil's Golf Course, where wind and rain have shaped the silt of ancient saltwater lakes into surreal crystallized salt pinnacles. And there's no place better to observe the tectonic forces that shaped Death Valley than at Badwater, the lowest place in the valley (and on the continent), where a salt-and-silt bog hundreds of feet below...
...serene showcase of volcanic rocks painted in pastels by various minerals: iron-producing reds, pinks, yellows; decomposing mica coloring rocks mint green; manganese supplying the purple. The best panoramic vista on this route is at Dantes View, where the deepest salt basin, tallest mountain, multicolored rocks and swirling sand can be savored from 5,475 ft. high in the Black Mountains...
...Sawat's advice seems to have little effect as I drive the ball 200 yards?mostly straight up?while my adversaries launch towering 250-yard blasts. They reach the 339-yard par 4 in two; I chop through jungle and sand to land in four. But I still have a chance to catch up on the green. I'm zenning over my putt when Sawat surprises me by picking up the ball. She lines up the putt then draws an imaginary arc where I'm supposed to roll it. "Left to right," she says, pulling the flag to pinpoint...