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...government supported the vigilantes in order to drive the squatters into Khayelitsha, a new settlement the government created by bulldozing sand dunes, or back to the homelands. Meanwhile, the refugees had no desire to go to Khayelitsha--"it's one of the most barren places I've ever seen," says Waldorf--and had little choice but to flee to the nearby townships...
...salts in the soil, leading to such a high level of salinity that agriculture in the area may be threatened. "Irrigation schemes around the world don't have a good track record," says Tony Debney of the Wallingford institute. In California, he notes, large tracts of land have become barren because of long-term irrigation...
Their efforts produced some stunning footage for Lucasfilm, including a 37- second hologram of a planet floating in space in Return of the Jedi. There was also a memorable one-minute sequence in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan of a barren, moonlike sphere being transformed into a living planet, complete with computer-generated mountains, oceans and blue-green atmospheric haze. But in the end, even Lucas balked at the cost. "I don't want to be in the R.-and- D. business," he said earlier this year. "It's just too time consuming and expensive." Enter Jobs...
...with the requisite Pentagon jargon. Clancy convincingly shows the importance of electronic intelligence--gathered by satellites, ships, planes and submarines--to modern warfare. Yet it is an old-fashioned human component that proves to be a critical factor. One of the multitude of subplots involves four Americans wandering the barren terrain of occupied Iceland, reporting Soviet movements on a primitive two-way radio. At first, allied analysts are skeptical about the information, but it turns out to be crucial. Here Clancy goes off automatic pilot; there are even a few romantic interludes, as if to remind the reader that...
When the rains kept falling, the legislature went beyond prayer. Last week it approved a $72 million plan to pump water from the lake to the barren west desert, creating a 2.5-ft.-deep, 500-sq.-mi. companion lake...