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...effect has been devastating. At least 50% of the soil has oxidized and eroded, in some places exposing the barren lime rock. Buried septic tanks on Lake Okeechobee's shores have surfaced. The lake itself has receded, from a depth of 17 ft. in the 1960s to 9 ft. last year. Alligators have lost most of their eggs to artificial flooding in three of the past five years. Flooding also led to the deaths of 5,000 deer last year. The region's spectacular wading birds, many of them rarities, are equally threatened. Wood storks, for example, have...
Like so many of Margaret Thatcher's actions, her surprise visit last week to the Falkland Islands roused strong emotions at home, abroad and, not least, within herself. On one occasion during the five-day mission to that barren South Atlantic archipelago, the Prime Minister was moved to tears as she honored Britain's fighting men, living and dead, whose victory over an Argentine occupying force had lifted Britain's spirits and Thatcher's own political fortunes. Her supporters cheered the 8,000-mile journey, which began shrouded in secrecy until her rugged Hercules transport plane...
...film, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, director Robert Altman weaves these themes into an intricate plot as he depicts the twentieth reunion of the Disciples of James Dean--a small club of James Dean fans--in the one-room Five & Dime in a barren town in Texas. Altman borrows the best qualities from the live theatre of precisely staged movements and vocal patterns and merges them with the best potentials of the cinema--fluid-flashbacks, close-up shots and angular filming. The setting of the tacky small-town corner Five & Dime, with its plastic...
...sense of urgency characterizes the whole operation. Dekel approached a small building contractor last year, telling him, "I have something to offer you, something that can make you a big builder." Later, in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, Dekel showed the contractor a barren hill a mile north of town. He explained that the government controlled 62½ acres there, and would let the contractor have them for $14,000 per acre, about one-twentieth of what the land would cost in the nearby Israeli towns of Kefar Sava and Ra'ananna. He added, "If you will build...
...looks more like a concentration camp than a refugee sanctuary. A barren mud flat smaller than a football field, it was originally designed to hold 800 people. Today it is home to more than 1,900 listless Vietnamese "land people," who singly or in family groups bribed their way across Cambodia, which is still occupied by 160,000 Vietnamese troops. Jumbled together inside 27 tents, the refugees each have a coffin-size sliver of space, 6 ft. by 3 ft., in which to rest and sleep. Living conditions for new arrivals are even more crowded: they are housed...