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Even as coca production continues to thrive in Peru and Bolivia, it has also begun to explode in previously undeveloped areas, such as Brazil's Amazon River Basin, a wilderness of lush jungles and rivers that is almost two-thirds the size of the U.S. Three years ago, policemen noticed that relatively primitive Indians were suddenly sporting modern clothes and traveling in motorboats. The peasants, they learned, had been pressured by Colombians into cultivating epadu, a shrubby small tree that can grow in the forest and attain a height of 10 ft. Epadu contains about 40% less active alkaloid than...
Hanford, Wash. Already used as a depository for low-level radioactive wastes, the tract in southeastern Washington is owned by the Federal Government. Its disadvantage, in the view of environmentalists, is that it is in the Columbia Basin. The Energy Department proposes carving a cavern in the basalt rock some 3,000 ft. below the surface, and contends that the radioactivity could never seep into underground water sources or the river. Many job-conscious residents of the three nearby cities of Kennewick, Richland and Pasco were happy that their area remained under consideration. "We're better educated about nuclear...
...just clearing the horizon and beginning to burn off the mist shrouding the upstate New York city of Utica, Kaldefoss signals his crew to cast off the lines holding his command to the New York State department of transportation dock and eases it slowly, stern-first, out into the basin. Then, his craft clear, Kaldefoss settles himself behind the huge, spoked steering wheel that dominates the Peckinpaugh's pilothouse and steers for the lock leading from the harbor to the Erie Canal, a 338-mile-long liquid highway that runs from Buffalo, on Lake Erie, all the way east...
...moment spring begins, you may be sure, Washingtonians will turn emphatic about the glorious forsythia, the jonquils and daffodils and, of course, all the perfect cherry blossoms. They go on and on about the dogwoods, the fields of hyacinths and azaleas, the quarter-million tulips planted near the Tidal Basin. Special pilgrimages are urged on visitors: not just the National Arboretum-precious camellias! amazing bonsai!-but the wonders of Dumbarton Oaks and the little garden at the foot of Capitol Hill. Washington, in sum, is very serious, even about its plants...
...Pacific Basin has become the place where America shops for everything from toys to machine tools. The U.S. this year will import goods worth an estimated $110 billion from East Asia and Australia. During the past 18 months, when the American economy staged a stronger recovery than expected, the powerhouse industries of the Pacific region shifted into overdrive. Singapore's exports to the U.S. rose 51% in the first eight months of this year, and Japan's jumped 46%. The flood of Asian products is a boon to American consumers, but it has stirred cries from U.S. companies...