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...eradication program was immediately launched. An 81-sq.-mi. area surrounding the find was put under quarantine, and aerial spraying of the pesticide Malathion, successfully used in California's $100 million 1980-82 war against the flies, began. Farm officials believe the flies may have entered the state on a plane or boat from Central or South America...
...boom had its origins in a state law that placed Indianapolis and most of surrounding Marion County under a unified government in January 1970. This quadrupled the city's land area to 379 sq. mi. and boosted the tax base from fewer than half a million to three-quarters of a million residents. Most significantly, the law encouraged more direct cooperation between the government and the private sector...
...seventh annual festival, to be held June 10, has its origins in the fourth century B.C. The races are held to commemorate the death of Chu Yuan, a legendary Chinese poet and patriot who cast himself into the Mi Lo River in an act of protest. The races are a re-enactment of his tragic death...
Seen from the air, El Salvador is a stunning landscape of dormant volcanoes and twisting river gorges. That mountainous beauty, covering roughly three-quarters of the countryside, is also a national curse. With the highest population density in Central America (601 per sq. mi.), similar to that of India, El Salvador is a land that is ideal for guerrilla warfare but pitifully inadequate for the agricultural needs of its people. Salvadoran geography creates some harsh problems: Who owns the country's meager agricultural resources? How should they be put to use? These are among the most important issues...
...stap long heven . . ." At the local sports field he watched benignly as bare-breasted women in grass skirts chanted hymns and drummers sporting feathered headdresses pounded out an accompaniment on hollow logs covered with animal skins. When the Pope gave his blessings to the crowd, the shouts of "Mi laikim Jon Pol!" were deafening...