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Blogging live from Spiral Jetty

Daniel Terdiman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:26:00 PDT

Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson's famous 1970 earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake.

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ROZEL POINT, Utah--"The highest tech thing I've ever seen work out here is acar and a camera," Hikmet Loe says to me as we sit, eating cheese ...

Defending against chemical and biological weapons

Daniel Terdiman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:00:00 PDT

Several masks that have been evaluated for safety against various chemical 'agents' sit on a table at the Dugway Proving Ground. CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman visited the facility as part of his Road Trip 2009 project.

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DUGWAY, Utah--In a world where American soldiers in Afghanistan ...

Trying to turn the page on a Kindle

Daniel Terdiman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:00:00 PDT

TOOELE, Utah--The first time I tried to physically turn the page of the book I was reading on my Kindle DX, I realized the mistake and chuckled at myself.

The second time I did it, I chuckled, too. But a little bit less.

And the third time? I thought to ...

Arches and canyons and buttes, oh my!

Daniel Terdiman — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 PDT

The rock formation that gives the town of Mexican Hat, Utah, its name. It is close to Monument Valley, a collection spread out over many miles and across both the Utah and Arizona state lines, of fantastic giant formations.

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MOAB, Utah--Two years ago, as I made ...

Road Trip 2009 hits 1,000 miles in the Rockies

Daniel Terdiman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:00:00 PDT

Road Trip 2009 hit 1,000 miles in the beautiful town of Glenwood Springs, Colo.

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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.--It still feels like Road Trip 2009 has just started, but I've already hit 1,000 miles. Unlike Road Trip 2008, where I hit the 1,000-mile ...

How I became a walking hot spot

Daniel Terdiman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PDT

ASPEN, Colo.--One thing I love is finding uses for things that perhaps no one has thought of before.

I'd already been on Road Trip 2009 for several days when I arrived in this tony Colorado mountain town known best as a playground for the rich and famous. I ...

Firefighters face off in national contest

Daniel Terdiman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PDT

Two contestants in the Firefighter Combat Challenge get ready to race.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--It's one thing for a track runner to bolt when the gun fires. Imagine how hard it is to jump up from a crouch and race up six flights of stairs ...

America's Fortress: Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD live on

Daniel Terdiman — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:00:00 PDT

One of the two 25-ton blast doors that protects the main entrance to the Cheyenne Mountain complex outside of Colorado Springs, Colo.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--If there are two things that drive the folks at the world-famous Cheyenne Mountain ...

Welcome to the Air Force Academy. You're doing everything wrong!

Daniel Terdiman — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT

At the United States Air Force Academy on Thursday, 1,376 basic cadets arrived for initiation.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--"Get off my bus!"

As the door opened, those words exploded out and it seemed that everyone within a few hundred feet must have heard them. ...

What happened to Mars?

Daniel Terdiman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:30:00 PDT

A rendering of the MAVEN spacecraft that is being conceived of by a team led by University of Colorado professor Bruce Jakosky. The project aims to study the atmosphere of Mars in order to determine why it changed over the last four billion years, and whether the planet previously was ...