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...terrorist, plans terrorist attacks or helps others carry out such attacks against the U.S. is who's next. The U.S. is not at war with only a few people or even a few nations. We are at war with the entire concept of international terrorism. MICHAEL BUSSIO Scotts Valley, Calif...
DIED. SUE SALLY HALE, 65, trailblazer for women in the clannish sport of polo; of apparently natural causes; at her polo ranch in the Coachella Valley, Calif. Beginning in the early 1950s, when women were still barred, Hale competed as "A. Jones," a mustachioed man. "Gentlemen," she liked to admonish her male-chauvinist opponents, "better boys than you have tried." Bowing in part to pressure from Hale and her friends, who vowed to publicize the fact that she had been duping them for years, the U.S. Polo Association admitted women...
...what I've seen doesn't inspire confidence. When I finally arrive at the end of the road in the picturesque ethnic-Tibetan town of Xidan, where the trail to the isolated Yubeng Valley (and village) starts, I'm expecting tranquillity. Instead, there's a phalanx of bulldozers clawing at the hilly approach to the trailhead. "As you can see, we're opening up to tourism," says Ga Te, a young official from the local tourism bureau. "Soon we'll have a parking lot. For now, though, we'll have to settle for mules...
...province's stunning Meili range, through forests of rhododendron and towering hemlock and past open views of the snow-capped peaks that have kept Yubeng in a state of fairy-tale seclusion. By the time we finally crest a prayer flag-festooned summit and drop into the valley below, it's late afternoon. Beneath us are the handful of dwellings that shelter Yubeng's 65 ethnic-Tibetan inhabitants; in the crook of a slim, glacial stream, a white, sagging stupa glows in the low sunlight. The locals feed and water their livestock, while one of the women invites...
Nothing, however, can quite match the physical wonders of Death Valley, says Dave Woodruff, 49, a veteran tour guide who, after 11 seasons here, is still discovering new things. There are the mysterious moving boulders on the Racetrack's remote dry lake bed, for example, or the beehive-shaped charcoal kilns of Wildrose Canyon. Just the other day Woodruff came across a scenic Depression-era back road that runs between Furnace Creek Ranch and Stovepipe Wells. "The magic of this place," he says, "makes me hunger for Death Valley more each year...