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With damage tentatively placed at $1.2 billion, and four deaths blamed on its swirling Category 4 winds, hurricane Iniki remained front-page news in the U.S. for much of the week. One-third of the homes on the Hawaiian island of Kauai were destroyed, and damage to agriculture is estimated at $78 million. Heavily dependent on tourism for its income, as are all the Hawaiian islands, Kauai may lose $400 million to $500 million in revenues...
Only three weeks after Andrew struck Florida, another hurricane steamrollered on Friday across the Hawaiian island of Kauai. With gusts of up to 160 m.p.h., Iniki was the most powerful storm to hit Hawaii this century, but its course took it over the lightly populated western side of the island. There were no first reports of serious casualties, and this time the Federal Emergency Management Agency could not be accused of a slow reaction. It dispatched teams to the area even before Iniki struck...
...migration to tropical climes of people with racial origins in higher, less sunny latitudes has also led to rising rates of skin cancer. A survey of nonmelanoma skin cancers in Hawaii, for example, concluded that Japanese residents of the island of Kauai were 88 times more likely to develop a skin malignancy than Japanese living in Japan. And in subtropical Australia, which was settled largely by the fair-skinned English and Irish, the skin-cancer rate is the highest in the world. Two out of three Australians will develop at least one skin cancer during their lifetime...
...state is not relying entirely on the depressed sugar industry for biomass. It is now considering pineapple waste and macadamia nut shells as energy sources. Tree farms have been planted for future fuel, and there is promise in a treelike legume called Haole Koa now being cultivated in Kauai, which can be harvested in four years and will produce in one acre the energy equivalent...
...Solar energy seems an obvious answer to Hawaii's problems. Already there are an estimated 20,000 solar hot-water units statewide, saving as much as $6 million a year. On Kauai, G.N. Wilcox Hospital has installed a photovoltaic system that nils 4% of its electrical and 40% of its hot-water needs. But such systems are expensive and generate electricity only in daylight hours. Even the sun has not cooperated this year: thanks partly to dust clouds from Mexico's El Chichón volcano, Hawaii has had the lowest level of direct solar radiation...