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...week's end about the third-worst airline disaster in history.* Bits and pieces of the wreckage plucked from the sea were sometimes heartbreaking: a red slipper, a limp rag doll, a waterlogged Teddy bear. Irish and British naval vessels and helicopters fanned out over a 5-sq.-mi. area. They retrieved 131 bodies, and by week's end the bulk of the wreckage had been located...
...leaves burn. And like the Casuarina and Schinus, the Melaleuca is quick to invade areas scorched clear of native vegetation. Mature Melaleuca stands so solidly that it keeps out wildlife. Says Morton: "When I say solid, a rabbit can't get through." Melaleuca has already colonized 60 sq. mi. of swampland in southern Florida...
...same sad question haunted all of Urirchar after the night of the raging elements. While the sea crashed over the 20-sq.-mi. island, whose highest point is only 10 ft. above sea level, families were torn asunder. In desperation, people clung to the rafters of the Forestry Department building or to trees or to anything else not swept away by the terrifying storm. "I survived by holding on to a branch," said Akmal Hossain, a 42-year-old farmer. "Everything happened after midnight, and before I could realize the gravity of the situation, water and water engulfed the island...
...million people -- more than four times the population of California -- are crammed into an area the size of Wisconsin. The cyclone aggravated already serious problems. It shattered much of the economic fabric of Bangladesh's coastal areas, leaving at least 30,000 cattle dead, about 3,000 sq. mi. of cropland ravaged, vital fishing grounds wasted. It also left tens of thousands of subsistence farmers both shelterless and penniless...
...their purpose an age-old mystery. For the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, there is a different attraction: NASA would like to use Easter Island as a possible emergency landing site for the space shuttle. Under a plan proposed to Chile, which owns the 45.5-sq.-mi. speck, NASA would spend an estimated $11 million to lengthen the 8,500-ft. local runway by about half a mile, strengthen its surface and install sophisticated electronic navigation systems. The U.S. has reached similar agreements with five other countries: Senegal, Spain, France, West Germany and Japan...