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Western Australia's Nullarbor (meaning no trees) Plain is an arid, limestone plateau that lies east of the old gold-rush towns of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, southeast of Comet Vale and northeast of Grass Patch. It is a barren, almost unpopulated land of sand and saltbush. Out of the blackness of the southwestern sky one night last week, the fringe of this isolated region was visited by a fiery symbol of the Western world's most advanced technology: the final, fatal fall of Skylab...
...grand jury investigating Soviet intelligence in 1958. He later cooperated, and was never indicted for espionage. When in 1974 Wolston was listed in a book called KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Agents as "among Soviet agents identified in the U.S.," Wolston sued the book's author, John Barren, and its publisher, Reader's Digest Association...
...company also avoided having to put in the new annex separate boilers that would have cost $125,000 to install and would have burned $30,000 worth of gas annually. "The system will pay for itself by the end of this year," predicts INSCO Senior Vice President William Barren. "Last winter we were running at 78° to 82°, and we wished we could have sold some of the heat...
Greenland is beautiful but barren. Fifty times as big as Denmark, which has ruled it since 1721, it is 85% covered by an icecap up to two miles thick. The rest is rocky terrain virtually devoid of vegetation. On the shores, steep granite and basalt cliffs plunge into ice-choked fjords. Polar bears prowl the far north, reindeer roam the western coastal mountains, and a few hardy sheep are herded in the far south...
...barren island with hardly a house upon it." Such was British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston's contemptuous description of Hong Kong before it was ceded to the British by a weak Chinese regime at the close of the Opium War in 1842. As a fruit of war, it was not considered a peach. But over the past 137 years, the once blighted island has developed into a bustling seaport colony that boasts a thriving economy. Though Britain's lease on 90% of the 400-sq.-mi. area expires in only 18 years, residents expect a glowing future...