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Readers of Rushdie's earlier novels will recognize the Moor's unusual affliction as a typical ambushing of the real by the preposterous. In his speeded-up growth, which makes him bigger than everyone else his age--"I was a skyscraper freed of all legal restraints, a one-man population...
An outbreak of pneumonic plague in western India has killed 100 people and has sent 300,000 others fleeing from the city where it originated. The country's entire medical-care apparatus has been put on red alert at the flare-up of the contagious, deadly disease to prevent its...
For about six weeks last year, the world became one giant megalopolis for photographer Anthony Suau. Assigned to shoot the pictures for this week's cover story on the many problems and opportunities to be found in megacities around the globe, Suau began in Kinshasa, Zaire, and wound up in...
Marshall McLuhan's famous metaphor sees the world as a global village. Actually, it has become a global city, a megalopolis with some rich neighborhoods and many poor neighborhoods and some that are terribly dangerous. Unfortunately, the big city has no police department, and the neighborhoods (the former U.S.S.R., the...
About 1,300 km (800 miles) long, the San Andreas Fault system separates two sections of the earth's crust known as plates. Like giant rafts, these plates glide across an expanse of superheated rock, viscous as tar, that surrounds the planet's molten outer core. At the rate of...