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...have ever spent much time in the American Southwest, particularly the mesa-speckled border between New Mexico and Arizona, land which sits at roughly the same latitude as Afghanistan, you will have a sense of the terrain where the U.S. is now furiously searching for Osama bin Laden. The hills around Kabul, an area where bin Laden may be hiding, sit at nearly the same latitude as Phoenix, Ariz., though Kabul's elevation makes it colder, clearer and more exhausting to visit. At night this time of year, temperatures can fall into the 30s. During the day, the clear skies...
...save and who to let fail? America West and US Airways, the weakest of the majors, were already headed into the tank pre-attacks - should they get the same loans at the same terms as, say, Delta, which has the best balance sheet of the Big Five? What about Southwest, which has actually been turning a profit for years - should its money go to, say, Continental, which is also profitable but mortally leveraged...
...February, Random House will publish Justice Sandra Day O?Connor?s account of her childhood, "Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest," co-written with her brother, Alan...
Still, even the EPA lauds Kennecott's stewardship in the valley. "That particular mine is at the forefront of the industry. Having a booming metropolis has forced Kennecott to deal appropriately at that site," says Dan Randolph, the EPA's Southwest-circuit rider...
...water well and what appears to be a grand causeway linking Mahram Bilqis with the ancient citadel of Marib, which rises above the desert about five km to the north. A separate team from the German Archaeological Institute, meanwhile, has uncovered dozens of multistory mausoleums in a cemetery area southwest of the oval enclosure. "We have excavated less than 1% of the entire site," Glanzman marvels. "This is the largest and one of the most important pre-Islamic sanctuaries on the Arabian peninsula. It's really, really huge...