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Swathed in the beige adobe seen throughout the Southwest, the museum sits on a quiet street off Santa Fe's main plaza, where galleries selling O'Keeffe wannabes vie with Indians hawking turquoise and silver in the long colonnade of the Palace of the Governors. You enter through glass doors trimmed with New Mexican pine. The installation is spare and elegant, as are the 10 galleries with glowing plaster walls, earth-colored concrete floors and skylights that subtly draw viewers from room to room...
...expected to dump 10 to 20 inches of rain on the region and produce isolated tornadoes in some spots. After forming Wednesday morning in the north central Gulf, Danny built into a tropical storm Thursday morning. It drifted northeast and then came to a standstill about 110 miles southwest of New Orleans. By Thursday night, Danny was on the move again, this time toward the northeast. It was upgraded to a hurricane early this morning as it moved over southern Louisiana...
...April, a round-trip ticket cost $490; subsequently, the price dropped to $138. Flying into an "alternative city" served by many discount carriers can also shave dollars. A round trip between San Diego, Calif., and Washington costs $564, but flying into Baltimore, Md., instead, a route now covered by Southwest, costs $268. "The low-cost carriers are driving the big guys crazy in cities where there was no competition," says Parsons. This will continue--assuming the discounters can survive...
...that the Army wants to destroy the state's 13,000 tons of deadly poisons, many residents are in no mood to comply. Since last August, the Pentagon has been conducting test burns of the weapons stored at Tooele County's Deseret Chemical Depot, just 35 miles southwest of greater Salt Lake City's 1.3 million residents. For the Pentagon, there is a sense of urgency about getting rid of these chemical-laden rockets and bombs, which are crammed into 208 earth-covered igloos. For one thing, the Chemical Weapons Convention ratified by the U.S. Senate last April requires their...
...Washington's Brookings Institution and co-author of The Evolution of the Airline Industry. On the other hand, he notes, Midwest's reach may be limited in the long term by the industry's trend toward lower costs and cheaper fares to match, exemplified by that mass-transit paragon, Southwest Airlines...