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...Defense Department has seized upon the gulf crisis as an excuse to expand the 1,000-sq.-mi. Fort Irwin, a high-tech desert-training facility in Southern California, by some 390 sq. mi. Environmentalists pledge to stall any such action...
Just outside Tokyo 300,000 people troop through Japan's Disneyland each week, while 20 miles outside Paris a new city is rising on 8 sq. mi. of formerly vacant land. Once Euro Disney Resort opens for business in 1992, forget the Eiffel Tower, the Swiss Alps and the Sistine Chapel: it is expected to be the biggest tourist attraction in all of Europe. In Brazil as many as 70% of the songs played on the radio each night are in English. In Bombay's thriving theater district, Neil Simon's plays are among the most popular. Last spring...
...scouts are from Troop 501 in La Canada-Flintridge, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles. They've begun the first day of a trek at Philmont Scout Ranch, the 215-sq.-mi. wilderness near Cimarron, N. Mex., that is scouting's premier "high adventure" base. Months of training hikes, equipment checks and dieting for obese adult advisers have preceded this day. The hikers will trudge through dense forests, up and over 10,000-ft. mountain passes, pelted by daily thundershowers. Staff members at backcountry camps are decked out as miners, trappers and other frontier characters to provide history lessons...
Rabbit at Rest opens in late 1988 in Florida. Rabbit lives in semi-retirement, no longer a true participant in his culture. Suddenly it baffles him. The novel is divided into three sections: FL, PA and MI (Myocardial Infarction, not Mighigan). These chapters explore his confusion on three levels: first about his retirement, then about his son's drug-fed life and finally about his own body and behavior...
...Poppers identified 139,000 sq. mi. as poor and emptying, and they suggested that through a consortium of public and private owners and institutions, the world's largest game preserve be created and woven around those areas that are still viable. Government payments would be used to idle the marginal land and support owners for as long as 30 years while they planned a new life. The cost? "Billions," acknowledges Frank Popper, "but less than the current subsidy programs...