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DIED. GEORGE ARCHER, 65, towering golf champ known for his exacting putting stroke; of Burkitt's lymphoma, a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; at his home in Incline Village, Nev. Though the 6-ft. 5-in. Archer tried to follow his father's advice to pursue basketball--"where the hole is way up there," as the son recalled him saying--he went on to win 12 P.G.A. championships, including the 1969 Masters, and 19 events on the 50-and-older Champions Tour...
Donald Sada, an ecologist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev., is also concerned. A slight decrease in the flow of groundwater will probably not be detrimental to the pockets of water that dot Western deserts, he says. The problem is, "What's slight? At what point do we start to alter the functional ecology?" The loss of the diminutive snails, fish and other organisms that dwell in desert springs would be important to more than just ecologists and taxonomists. Those tiny animals are indicator species, the canaries in the environmental coal mine that provide the first warning that...
JASON YELOWITZ -- Incline Village, Nev...
...meet fierce opposition from the Pentagon. The military, with support from the major weapons-research laboratories, wants to continue experimenting with its modernized nuclear arsenal, particularly technology that might be used to implement the President's Strategic Defense Initiative. Last Saturday at an under ground site in Pahute Mesa, Nev., northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. exploded a device (code-named Goldstone) designed to channel the energy of a nuclear blast into a concentrated, powerful beam of X-rays that could knock out a missile or warhead. Indeed, it may have been the Soviets' fear of SDI that pushed...
Most of the kids are all business. Rowena Avery, 6, of Sparks, Nev., arrived last week with a stuffed animal named Sidewalk and stoically disappeared into the machine while her mom, dad and little sister watched. In preparation, she had practiced at home by lying very still in the bathtub. Her picture came out crystal clear. "The youngest ones are the best at lying still. It's kind of surprising," Giedd says. "It must be because they are used to hiding in kitchen cabinets and things like that...