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...life on earth. Most of Mars' visible water appears in the form of atmospheric vapor or ice locked in the planet's two polar caps (the surface pressure on Mars is so low* that liquid water would probably boil away). But liquid water apparently once did flow freely on the Martian surface in earlier days; Viking's orbital pictures show that the planet is crisscrossed by dry "riverbeds" and sinuous valleys, including a deep Grand Canyon-like depression called the Valles Marineris, that were probably carved out by running water. During Viking's descent, the lander...
...France Airbus, which had been seized on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris, landed in Uganda. Within 48 hours, the Mossad, Israel's CIA, had slipped three black undercover agents into Entebbe and two into Kampala, the nearby capital. They sent Jerusalem a constant flow of intelligence, including photographs, about what the terrorists were doing and how the Ugandan army was deployed. With this information, the Israelis, who helped build the airport a decade ago, constructed a full-scale updated model of Entebbe to train commandos for the raid...
...less artfully blended to give a vague feeling of what a modern naval engagement must be like - the large distances separating the antagonists when they launch their planes, the sickening speed with which the flames spread when they find their targets. But there is no real sense of the flow of fortune in the battle - the camera shies away from any at tempt at analysis. The Japanese, led by Toshiro Mifune, are neatly dressed and stoic (a useful virtue if most of your dialogue has to be dubbed into English...
Whatever the difficulties, the flow is unceasing. A few statistics document the recent changes. A decade ago, Canada was still providing the largest number of immigrants, 38,327. Today, Mexico provides the most, 62,205. Second and third come the Philippines (31,751) and Korea (28,362), whereas in 1965 the 4,057 immigrants from Taiwan were the only Asian group among the largest 15. The U.K. and Germany, which used to rank three and four, now rank eleven and 16. (Among the smallest contingents, Monaco, Chad and Pitcairn Island, one each...
Even with all the money and effort going into the rebuilding of downtowns across the U.S., a hard question remains: Can American cities regain their health? The answer depends in large part on how successful the cities are in stemming -or reversing-the outward flow of middle-class residents. New York, which badly overestimated the market during the office-building boom of the '60s,* has boldly built its "new town" of Roosevelt Island to do just that...