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...effort to find the answer to this question. Two weeks ago Viking 2 dropped silently out of space and bumped to a landing on Mars' Utopia Planitia (plains of Utopia), some 4,600 miles east-northeast and almost halfway around the planet from Viking 1 (see map). The landing gave scientists some anxious moments. Shortly after separation from its lander, the Viking 2 orbiter lost its "lock" on the star Vega and began to roll, breaking its contact with mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But even as engineers worked feverishly to correct the problem...
...tremor, which measured 8 points on the Richter scale, came shortly after midnight last Monday. Centered in the Celebes Sea (see map), it sent the colossal tsunami waves toward the scenic shorelines of the Sulu Islands and the Moro Gulf coast while most residents were sleeping. The waves wiped out a dozen fishing villages, knocked out bridges, and caused buildings to collapse in the coastal cities of Cotabato, Pagadian and Davao. Philippine officials said the disaster was the worst in their country's history: 3,100 dead, another 3,700 missing, 1,000 injured and nearly 90,000 homeless...
...state disease detectives-physicians, biologists, chemists-set to work in Pennsylvania in a massive microbe hunt that resembled a police dragnet. Working round the clock, state officials turned an office in Harrisburg into a sort of "war room." One wall of the makeshift headquarters was covered with a map pierced with colored pins tracing the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease-red pins for deaths, yellow ones for reported illness. At several desks, shirtsleeved workers transferred information onto large sheets of graph paper. At others, workers telephoned the state's more than 300 hospitals, trying to determine the exact number...
...most powerful recorded anywhere since 1964, when a quake registering 8.4 hit Alaska. The first tremor was followed 16 hours later by a second shock, which measured 7.9. The two quakes ripped the earth, crumpled dams and toppled buildings across one of China's most populous regions (see map), a swatch of Hopei province bordering the Gulf of Po Hai and encompassing not only Peking and its 7.5 million inhabitants but also China's third largest city, Tientsin (pop. 4.3 million), and Tangshan (pop. 1 million), an industrial and mining center. China's government publicly admitted only...
...never even mention by name, nor does your Cartographer Rosenblum show on his map, the scenic spot probably viewed by more people than any other on this continent. More brides and grooms, yes, kings and queens, princes and princesses, heads of state, world-famous figures and millions of others come to see and wonder at Niagara Falls...