Great Basin Imagery in Newspaper Coverage of Yucca MountainFootnote^*

* The authors would like to thank Jason Dittmer and the four anonymous reviewers for their constructive critiques of an earlier version of this article. Special thanks to Doug Johnson and Viola Haarmann for their editorial skills and to Kevin Blake for the use of his photographs. We are responsible for remaining errors and omissions.

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