Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compensation. You can "peg" your variometer here with no trouble at all -- i.e., rise faster than the 1,000 ft. a minute that the beeping rate-of-climb gauge will register. But great, eddying roils of turbulence called rotors wheel across the 14,000-ft. ridges of the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, sometimes shearing the big thermals and otherwise raising hell. "It's the roughest place in the world for hang gliding," says Lee, a member of the six-man U.S. team, here with pilots from 40 other countries for the World Hang Gliding Championships...
...spot," because the aquifer's spring system is home to 65 species found nowhere else on earth. Among them: the fountain darter, the Texas blind salamander and Texas wild rice. Falling water levels in the aquifer, caused by unregulated and excessive usage, threatened the species, and in 1991 the Sierra Club sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, forcing it to take action...
Robaina's appointment marks the rise of a new breed in Havana: the young upwardly mobile Marxists, or yummies. They were just babes in arms or school kids when Castro's socialist revolutionaries swept down out of the Sierra Maestra mountains 34 years ago. Now in their 30s and early 40s, educated and ambitious, the yummies hold the key to Cuba's future...
...label on Crystal Geyser natural Alpine spring water boasts that it is nothing less than "nature's perfect beverage." The drink, reads the label, "begins as the pure snow and rain that falls on 12,000-ft. Olancha peak in the towering Sierra. This pristine water is naturally filtered through the mountain's bedrock...
...does he know? Moores is a specialist in ocean crust, which he routinely discovers high and dry in the Sierra Nevada. "The whole vast assemblage of transported deep-ocean rock," writes McPhee, "now rests on California like a ship stuck in sand, listing thirty degrees to the west." Scientist and writer poke through the wreckage. They straddle fault lines and sift through road cuts while impatient drivers speed...