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...want to jam you right into the middle of it," says Scott. "Whether you are normally cautious on the road or a hotshot, it upsets nearly everyone. Especially the macho types. It's a heavy landing for them to find out they really can't drive and are nowhere near the limits of the car." For reassurance, the student looks at the special brake pedal installed on the passenger side of Scott's Malibu for the instructor to use if a student panics and freezes...
...remainder is controlled by the military and is strictly off limits. Only about 5% is open to public recreational use, meaning that Americans have available to them just one acre of beach for every 1,450 citizens-roughly the population density of parts of Long Island's jam-packed Jones Beach on a hot summer Sunday. In some parts of the country, the squeeze is even tighter: in the South, there is only one acre of swimming beach for every 3,080 people. The need for open beaches is sure to rise: more than 50% of the population...
...this growth will be in the poorer, less developed countries (LDCs), mostly in their urban slums and shantytowns. Mexico City, already crowded with more than 10 million people, will swell to more than 31 million people; Calcutta will teem with nearly 20 million, and more than 15 million will jam Bombay and Cairo, Jakarta and Seoul. However, in a chilling Malthusian hedge, the study adds: "In the years ahead, lack of food for the urban poor, lack of jobs, and increasing illness and misery may slow and alter the trend...
Cabbage, potatoes, macaroni, kasha (cooked buckwheat), bread, fish, tea and a bit of meat normally make up the draftees' diet. On special holidays, fruit and jam are added. The troops down their fare quickly. Reason: The last to finish must clean the mess-hall table. Soviet draftees have little chance for female contact. While they can leave base one day each month, many do not do so, because the nearest village is often beyond walking distance. Longer furloughs are granted only as a special favor or for emergency reasons. On rare occasions, a divisional command may organize "social evenings...
...timber worth about $200 million, caused an estimated $222 million in damage to wheat, alfalfa and other crops as far east as Missoula, Mont., and buried 5,900 miles of roads under ash. Clearing them could cost another $200 million. The blast created a 20-mile log jam along the Columbia River that blocked shipping between Longview, Wash., and Astoria, Ore. Volcanic mud carried by the river choked the harbor of Portland. Officials estimated that the ports would lose $5 million a day until dredges could clear a new channel through the silt, which in some places reduced the depth...