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...level at Venice is rising .055 in. a year. At the same time, the island is sinking .106 in. a year -partly because industrialists and farmers have been pumping away the cushion of underground water. An even more serious factor has been dredging operations in the lagoon between Venice and Marghera, its rapidly expanding industrial satellite on the mainland...
...underpinnings, but also seem to have unsettled the natural ebb and flow of the tidal waters. In the past, flooding was a rarity in Venice. But now it has become almost a regular occurrence, as winds and new tidal currents trap an overflow of water behind the lagoon's three egresses. Along the canals, water has seeped through foundations to crack and moisten plaster walls -some of them holding priceless paintings. The frescoes by Paolo Veronese in the Church of San Sebastiano, for example, have become cracked and lumped by moisture. A preview of what can happen came...
...thumping holds of transports crowded with Marines, many of whom were about to die under murderous machine-gun fire even before they could splash ashore. From the air, Tarawa looked like a peaceful string of jade beads carelessly tossed on a dressing table. Each of the islands surrounding the lagoon is a bit of equatorial sand and coral nourishing coconut palms, breadfruit and pandanus trees. But on the bird-shaped island of Betio at the end of the string, the scars of war may not be erased for 100 years. Surprising evidence still remains of the ghastly battle fought...
...islets where tests were conducted have been blown off the map. Bikinians may have to forgo eating land crabs and pounded arrowroot, two delicacies that retain dangerous radioactive isotopes. But the overall level of radiation is now no higher than that of the city of Denver, and the Bikini lagoon teems with edible fish. It was the lagoon that they missed most during exile at Kili, where thundering waves often made fishing impossible...
...last major test before the Olympic trials in mid-July, Harvard fell quickly behind Vesper. At the halfway point on the Orchard Beach Lagoon course, Vesper held off a Harvard challenge, but the Crimson boat poured it on over the last 500 or 600 meters to win by a length and a half...