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JAPAN juxtaposes its ancient arts with its modern technological achievements: the delicacy of flower arranging and a model of the world's fastest train, woodblock printing and powerful microscopes. Dominating the three-building complex is one of the finest works of art created for the fair-Masayuki Nagare's thunderous stone wall, carved out of lava rock...
What part of the world has the fastest growing population? Not India and not Communist China. The population explosion is strongest in tropical South America-a 5,300,000-sq.-mi. area encompassing Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and the three Guianas, British, Dutch and French (see map). According to the Population Reference Bureau, an independent, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., these nine countries are growing at an average rate of 3.2% each year, compared with about 2% for India and Red China. At cur rent rates, their 121 million population will double by 1986; in 100 years...
...annually have long been a fact of Latin American life. Since World War II, modern medicine has reduced the death rate to less than 20 per 1,000 in most countries. Brazil, whose 78 million people are increasing by 3.6% each year, is growing the fastest; next comes Venezuela, with 8,100,000 and a growth rate of 3.3%. Tiny Ecuador, whose 4,700,000 people stand 43 to the square mile, already has the highest population density of any South American country, and is compounding the matter with a 3.2% growth rate. Only in mountainous Bolivia, where...
...meter mark, with 1,200 meters to go, the Philadelphians drew even with Harvard, edged ahead-and never looked back. Eight tulip-shaped oars swinging as one, they took the stroke up to 40 at the end, swept to a one-length victory in 6 min. 1.3 sec.-fastest time of the entire Olympic trials...
...stroking Crimson crew got off to a perfect start and led by half a length at the 1000-meter halfway mark, but the Harvard oarmen were unable to match Vesper's increasing momentum. Harvard's time was 6:05.3, its fastest time in the trials and a faster than Vesper clocked until the final race. California finished third, nearly a length behind Harvard. Yale was last...