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Think of it: through the alchemy of imagination, the oceans disappear. Suddenly, the world would gain some 140 million sq. mi. of land, including mountains higher than Everest, volcanoes more powerful than Etna, chasms deeper than the Grand Canyon. By far the most pleasant scenery to man's eye-assuming anyone could survive in a world without water-would be the delicately terraced hills and snug valleys on the gently sloping continental shelves. The rest of the ocean floor would be mostly a vast wasteland of muddy ooze, as bleak in its way as the Sahara...
...skills, Ron even gave a demonstration to a posse of reporters on a back road, only to run out of gas and | wheeze to a halt under the unblinking gaze of a herd of Herefords. Said one wry observer: "After Evel Knievel has jumped the Grand Canyon, Ron is going to top his act-he's going to try to jump the credibility...
...football fields but does not touch the ground, the pavilion inside has an al fresco feeling and a cinema with the largest screen in the world (nine stories wide, six stories high). It features a film on U.S. ecology that opens with a soaring, swooping flight into the Grand Canyon and winds up with a rip-roaring raft ride down the Colorado River. Another section, called "The Consumer and the Environment," has as displays a collection of abandoned consumer goods and an assemblage of old bathtubs and sinks around a fountain, illustrating, in Pop art fashion, Americans' prodigal waste...
...some point halfway up the slope of the La Paz canyon, rural and urban Bolivia meet. The Indian Quarter of the city is situated just where the western wall of the crater begins to rise sharply. The narrow sidestreets here are lined with the old, deteriorating shops and grocery stores owned by the mestizos (people of mixed white and Indian blood). Most of the real activity, however, takes place not in these dusty little buildings, but in the streets themselves. Everyday the Indian peasants, who live higher up in the poorer sections of the city, make the long, strenuous climb...
...them left me to go to their hotel room. I started back alone on the walk to the Indian Quarter. Soon the streets began to rise sharply. In the distance I saw the lights of the adobe huts of the peasants flickering helplessly up the rocky walls of the canyon and blending in with the icy stars of the night...