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...square was once again ankle-deep in sea water. Though floods have plagued Venice for centuries (one was recorded in A.D. 885), lately they have been getting worse. Main reason: to permit the passage of large ships, the Italians have widened and deepened the three channels through the 38-mile-long barrier beach that protects the Venetian lagoon from the high tides of the Adriatic...
...month journey, the Viking ships will swing into orbit around Mars. Each will release a lander containing a life-seeking laboratory. After descending with the aid of parachute and braking rockets, the first sterilized package should touch down on July 4, 1976, near the mouth of a 3,000-mile-long gorge that cuts across the Red Planet like a Martian Grand Canyon. The second probe is to land near the north polar cap. Both sites were picked because they could contain traces of water -essential to all terrestrial life...
...largest, most awesome geological feature on the face of the earth: a 40,000-mile-long, quake-prone chain of mountains and valleys that winds around the planet like the stitching on a baseball. Yet because most of this mid-ocean ridge system lies deep beneath the waves, little is known about how its activity affects the formation of mineral deposits, changes the ocean floor and even causes the slow movement of entire continents. During the next three months French and American scientists hope to learn much more about the mysterious undersea area by prowling the depths some 200 miles...
...result, is to rebuild its shattered cities and give the people some early measure of relief. But Sadat has even more ambitious projects for revitalizing the country. In essence, the President wants to free Egyptians from their centuries-old dependence on a narrow (average width: seven miles), 500-mile-long green belt on each side of the Nile River valley. The completion of the Aswan High Dam, with its water control and vastly increased production of electricity, will make that possible...
...private energy experts. So far, it seems to be making only a moderate impression on a public thankful that the energy crisis is over, as it indeed is. At the height of the crisis in late winter, soaring oil prices, abrupt layoffs in some fuel-short industries, and mile-long lines of cars outside gasoline stations shocked Americans into a new conservation ethic. People sharply curtailed driving and turned down lights and thermostats in homes and factories...