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...strange light was affecting my trek across Anaheim to my hotel room, leading me down blind alleys as I made my desperate bid across the industrial wasteland. After an hour, I had lost sight of the stadium and the Castle...
Last week the U.S. Department of the Interior joined forces with the developers. The department's Fish and Wildlife Service recommended that the plain -- a carpet of delicate wild flowers in summer, an icy wasteland in winter -- be opened to exploration and leasing by oil and gas concerns. The report, which concedes that the environment would be affected, is due to be released in final form next March by Interior Secretary Donald Hodel...
...north in locked cattle cars and sometimes on rafts along the great rivers flowing to the Arctic Ocean. The healthy adults were put to work in the mines or at timbering. The old, the sick and youngsters under 14 built shelters of wood and mud on patches of Arctic wasteland encircled with barbed wire. Some 6.5 million people died, more than half of them children...
...raccoon on Holyoke Street, we finally gathered. A very big raccoon indeed. A raccoon that we quickly forgot about as we sped down Mem Drive, crossed the River, thanked the cabbie and stepped into a nuclear wasteland...
Whatever the cause of the wasteland, a few years after the disaster, the government sent death squads of prisoners to cover up the contaminated soil with sand. The workers were housed in special barracks, and many probably died from intense doses of radiation. Sometime after Tumerman's visit, Soviet authorities seem to have completely given up on the region, evacuating all farmers, destroying their houses and fencing the area off with barbed wire. Finally, officials decided to use the devastated zone as a radiological training ground for army troops...