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...already owns one Superfund site. The Superfund site is within a day's drive of the actual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. The Burning Man is a comfortable driving distance from the cities of Reno, Las Vegas and Salt Lake. It wouldn't...
...for 200,000 gallons of water, the park service said. The Devil's Hole pupfish, a teaspoon-sized fish in the Nevada desert of Death Valley National Park, is the impetus for recurring complaints from park officials against sprawling development...
...built each year and burned in effigy, similar to the Burning Man, an annual counterculture event in the northern Nevada desert. Place said the crowd included families earlier in the evening. John Ingalls, 57, said four or five cords of wood...
...kidnap-murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. In 1957, the United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert. In 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reacted angrily during a visit to Los Angeles upon being told that, for...
...Holyfield's ear. In 2002, the Senate voted to entomb thousands of tons of radioactive waste inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, rejecting the state's fervent protests. Speaking in New York, President Bush called for doubled prison terms...
...Yankees hit the first of a record 61 home runs in a single season. In 1968, the United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a 1.3 megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar." In 1970, the Stephen Sondheim musical "Company" opened at the...
...1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. In 1951, an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began, as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats. In 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus...
...1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. In 1951, an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a 1-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats. In 1985, the secret three-day military-satellite...
...library and continue from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. It will feature Paul Colbert of Nevada Desert Experience, a nonviolent activist. Admission to the forum and workshop is free, but contributions to defray expenses...
...Ketterle won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 2005, a driverless Volkswagen won a $2 million race across the rugged Nevada desert, beating four other robot-guided vehicles that completed a Pentagon-sponsored contest aimed at making warfare...