Word: earth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disaster announced its presence in Bucharest one evening last week with a long, moaning roar. The earth began to heave, and older buildings in the pleasant, tree-shaded Rumanian capital (pop. 1.7 million) shuddered and started to collapse. A major earthquake-registering 7.2 on the Richter scale-had struck. For six terrifying minutes, the calamitous shaking continued...
...will face the sun, and painted a heat-absorbing black on the other side. The total weight of the sail and the instrument-packed ship mounted in a hole at its center will be only 5,000 kilograms (11,000 lbs.)-a payload that could easily be launched into earth orbit by a rocket...
Once the package has been hauled by the shuttle into near-earth orbit, a small rocket will push it to escape velocity. At about 100,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) above the earth, the framework will be assembled and the sail deployed automatically...
...major cause of the staggering problems of the Third World. While a high standard of living coincides with a low rate of population growth, poverty has come to mean a high birth rate in most third world countries. The United Nations predicts that in the next thirty years the earth's population will probably double, with 3.5 million more people living on the face of the globe. And world hunger will be increasingly prevalent as more hands grasp for food...
There is also prison loneliness, which, Cheever writes with painful accuracy, "can change anything on earth." Farragut, previously a dog breeder, becomes attached to a jailhouse cat. Farragut, previously a heterosexual, falls in love with a fellow prisoner. Loneliness can change anything...