Word: mi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Macao, the tiny Portuguese colony and gambler's Mecca at the mouth of the Pearl River, would eventually return to Chinese rule. A major hitch, however, has been the & inability of the two sides to fix a date for Portugal to relinquish its administration of the 6-sq.-mi. enclave...
...view in a referendum last November. A key reason: Hanford is only five miles from the Columbia River, so any leakage might find its way downstream to Portland. Opponents of the plan charge that Washington is basing its choice on political grounds. The U.S. already owns the 570-sq.- mi. Hanford site, and most of the local citizens favor the nuclear industry as the basis for their jobs. Even this traditional view is changing, however. It was recently learned that dangerous quantities of iodine gases had leaked from the Hanford reactors during the 1940s and that...
...boots and pursue a very different kind of fieldwork in big-city hotels and on the lecture circuit. The reason: in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy International, he is attempting to raise $11.8 million for an unprecedented ecological experiment. Janzen plans to use the money to buy 158 sq. mi. of Costa Rican terrain surrounding Santa Rosa and re-create a virtually extinct ecosystem known as tropical dry forest. He has already named the proposed refuge Guanacaste National Park...
Janzen has so far collected $1.3 million from such contributors as the MacArthur and W. Alton Jones foundations and is now negotiating to buy 15.4 sq. mi. of land -- a mosaic of 20- to 50-acre farms, grasslands and plots of forest -- from farmers and cattlemen. He offers the going rate of $200 to $300 a hectare (2.5 acres). With crops and cattle returning marginal profits in Costa Rica, and interest rates exceeding 20%, he has met with little resistance and hopes to purchase the remaining land by February 1988. Environmentalists are cheering him on. "We as conservationists in Latin...
Albania is a small (11,100 sq. mi., pop. 3 million) mountainous country of great beauty. Fewer than 300,000 inhabitants live in Tirane, the capital; 85% of the people reside in towns and villages. Small factories produce such goods as rough textiles, canned foods, glassware and machine parts. The economy is stagnant, in part because of an almost pathological aversion to debt. The constitution outlaws acceptance of foreign credits, thus making Albania's outside trade dependent on barter deals or the cash sale of its exports, which include chromium, oil and agricultural products. The economy is also crippled...