Word: lagoons
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...pedagogical -- even in an age that no longer believes in the gods or their messengers. Our misfortune is that monsters need not look monstrous. Hence, schoolboys in Africa. Hence, Jeffrey Dahmer in Milwaukee, who, with his strong cheekbones and broad shoulders, is not some finny Creature from the Black Lagoon...
...closely monitored community. Epcot today is a permanent world's fair that includes two sets of pavilions: scientific ones that celebrate mankind's technological mastery of the universe and a clutch of foreign lands without masses of foreigners -- 11 cultural boutiques that fit around a man-made lagoon as a symbol of human fellowship. "Probably it's much cleaner here than some of those countries you would go to," says visitor Sandy Hyde of Hacienda Heights, Calif...
...average Tahitian island, as it turns out, is ringed by a coral atoll that breaks the surf, making the lagoon a lovely protected place to anchor a sailboat, but also preventing the formation of beaches. Mostly the shore is lined with large rocks and stretches of dirty gravel...
Expo planners envision a vast, ultramodern "workshop of ideas" spread out over the entire 7,090-sq.-mi. Veneto region. The "ideas network" would be centered in the 80-acre Arsenale, the old shipbuilding yards of the Venetian navy. Along the edge of the lagoon, from the polluted petrochemical shores of Marghera to Marco Polo airport, a "Riviera of culture and technology" would be tied together by an aboveground metro. Planners promise that the construction would create 5,000 jobs, as well as a sophisticated electronics- and-communicati ons system to serve the city in the next century...
...European Communities' Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana, an Italian, has demanded full environmental studies, and says triumphantly that doubts about the Venice site are setting in: "It will finish in the paper basket." But outgoing Mayor Casellati is still worried. "I'm going off to sail in the lagoon," he says. "Before they destroy...