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...heat, but most of the band played whatever instruments they could find. Homemade electronics, two saxophones, three guitars, two basses, a KAOSS Pad effects processor, and sundry pedals lay scattered on the stage. The one guiding force was a five-foot branch, alternating between walking stick, club, and flagstaff for a silver scarf, entertaining the whole venue. Sunburned took a break to announce “We’re the J. Geils Band, but there ain’t no centerfold fucking up here,” before heading back into their passionate self-indulgence. They were a modern...
...outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., Wally Covington drives his pickup truck through a forest choked with nearly impenetrable thickets of ponderosa pines. At last he arrives at the spot where, 10 years ago, he and his colleagues took chain saws to hundreds of trees no bigger than telephone poles, carted off the trunks and branches, and then set fires to clear away the understory. Today the result of these Bunyanesque labors is a marvel to behold, a sun-dappled woodland arched over by the branches of 300-year-old trees and, in the spaces between them, a profusion of grasses...
...evacuation of some 18,000 people and the closure of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Last year brought some of the largest, most intense wildfires in U.S. history, including the Hayman fire, which overran nearly 138,000 forested acres near Denver, and the Rodeo-Chediski fire, not far from Flagstaff, which blazed for weeks across 466,000 acres. These epic conflagrations helped make 2002 the third worst fire year on record (after 1988 and 2000) with nearly 7 million acres burned, 21 fire fighters dead and 2,000 structures destroyed...
...Like many Americans before him, McClintock arrived in China with fears of deprivation and isolation. He brought a 1.8-kilogram tub of peanut butter from the Safeway in Flagstaff, Arizona. "We figured that would hold him," his wife says, "until I could get there with the Hamburger Helper." Alisha shows off the well-stocked larder in the condo: Welch's Strawberry Spread, Bush's Original Baked Beans, Franco-American Gravy and Post Cranberry Almond Crunch cereal, all of it personally delivered by Alisha?who is completing her nursing studies at Northern Arizona?when she arrived on Christmas break...
Peabody executives have stepped up efforts to reach an agreement since June, when CEO Irl Engelhardt, 54, met with Hopi and Navajo leaders in Flagstaff, Ariz. "We're not happy about the continuing controversy over the water," says Fred Palmer, a Peabody executive vice president. "We'd like to see it resolved...