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					  <title><![CDATA[The Trinity Site - Day One, double sunrise]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Day One of the Atomic Age, I imagine during the eighty mile drive from Alamogordo to Trinity Site, New Mexico, was much like today except for the early morning rain postponing the experiment from 4:00 to 5:30 a.m. Darkness filled the elongated valley bordered by mountains of hard granite, solidified lava flows and eroded mesas. The rain was undoubtedly welcomed by the sparse yet hardy vegetation decorating the valley floor. The rare summer moisture provided relief from the searing, relentless desert heat - a brief chance to rejoice and replenish moments before disappearring in an unnatural and previously unknown manner. Except for the sound of our 200 vehicle convoy headed to Ground Zero, Day One was sunny, windless and serene, just like today. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Jim Reed)</author>
					  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:27:48 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Gran Quivira - a part of Salinas National Monument]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[The Spanish gave this Anasazi village the name of Pueblo de Las Humanas (a thriving pueblo) when O&ntilde;ate first approached it in 1598 to accept the oath of allegiance to Spain. Largest of the Salinas pueblos, it was occupied for nearly nine centuries, 800 A.D. to 1672 A.D. Later, Spaniards called it Gran Quivira, the object of Coronado's and O&ntilde;ate's futile search for gold. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Phyllis Eileen Banks)</author>
					  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:31:31 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Flocking to the Bosque]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Fall and winter are perfect times to trade the baster for the binoculars and head for the birds at Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge near Socorro, New Mexico. Here, a temperate Rio Grande Valley climate and 57,000 acres of wetlands, wilderness and cultivated fields comprise a comfortable stay for thousands of waterfowl and sandhill cranes seeking refuge from northerly ice-covered waters, short daylight hours, cold nights and diminishing food supplies. The population starts building in September and extends through the second week of March, when the last of the cranes starts their migration northward.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Carla DeMarco)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2003 23:38:48 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Elfego Baca-taming Socorro]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[His legendary fame was similar to that of Billy the Kid, except he was on the side of the law as sheriff, marshal, district attorney, school superintendent, and mayor. At age nineteen, he established his reputation as a quick draw with a deadly aim when he held 80 Texas cowboys at bay for thirty-six hours, killing four and wounding eight.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Phyllis Eileen Banks)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:43:25 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Bosque del Apache in Winter - a refuge from phone and fax]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[It is late winter, a Monday afternoon, in New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande Valley. The temperature outside hovers at sixty degrees. For one person, the temptation to remove his coat and tie and play hooky from work is too compelling to resist. From Socorro, our adventurer drives south on New Mexico Highway 1 toward the entrancing and renowned Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge. He must, for obvious reasons, remain anonymous. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Leonard Padilla)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2003 23:53:18 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Trail ride fulfills dream and renews family&#039;s faith in humanity]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[It was Cruz Baca's dream. Having grown up in the Riley area, then living around the high country, he wanted to ride the Rio Salado from its beginning all the way to Riley. Coming into Magdalena, New Mexico on horseback in time for the Old Timers' Reunion was an added incentive. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Jacky  Barrington)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 23:59:11 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Socorro - an uncommon place]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Socorro, a community of 9,000 in the sunny Rio Grande Valley, is the seat of Socorro County. While it is distinguished by history as one of the oldest settlements in the Southwest, its present and discernable future is based on the technology of tomorrow. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Carla DeMarco)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 23:46:28 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Magdalena-watched over by Mary Magdalene]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Magdalena has seen it all. From the days of lead, zinc and silver mining in the 1880s and cattle shipping when the railroad spur from Socorro reached the town in 1884 to test missies flying overhead, Magdalena has grown and shrunk and grown again. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Anne Sullivan)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:03:11 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[San Antonio, New Mexico - not Texas]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Place Names of New Mexico by Robert Julyan indicates there are 36 places in New Mexico where St. Anthony is mentioned. However, San Antonio at the junction of US 380 and one mile east of I-25 is the only one listed on the current New Mexico map. It is located ten miles south of Socorro and ten miles north of the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Phyllis Eileen Banks)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:41:44 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Sevilleta Wildlife Refuge - Catch it in Late Summer]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[In the thousands of vehicles that travel Interstate 25 between Las Cruces and Albuquerque every day, some occupants have noticed a new highway sign for the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, which spans the Rio Grande a few miles north of Socorro. Not as well-known or accessible as its more famous neighbor to the south, Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Sevilleta nevertheless occupies a special place in the hierarchy of protected lands due to its stark beauty, diversity, and research activity.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Leonard Padilla)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:22:52 PST</pubDate>
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