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Indeed, overcrowding is a problem on the entire island of Java, where 60% of the nation's population lives (and where the density is 1,500 people per sq. mi.). Accordingly, the government is urging the Javanese to migrate to the less-populous outer islands. A highway is being built through the Sumatran jungle, for example, that will open up vast sections of the big island, which is 1½ times the size of Japan...
...most mysterious, least-known area of man's universe does not lie in the farthest reaches of outer space. Nor is it found in the most remote Amazonian jungle or in the inky blackness of the Mariana Trench. It is located instead in side the human skull, and consists of some 3½ pounds of pinkish-gray mate rial with the consistency of oat meal. It is, of course, the human brain...
This time Hickey has changed. He is off the booze and wants to save the in mates of the cafe with a gospel of dis illusionment. They are to test their pipe dreams in the outer world and come to uncompromising terms with themselves...
Perhaps the most marked change is not in outer but inner discipline-from the children themselves. Having seen the confusion of their older brothers and sisters over a lack of parental authority, kids seem to be seeking their own guidelines. The main concern of 12-year-old Alyce Maddox of Atlanta is typical. She has vowed not to become involved with kids who take drugs. "I'm not living my life that way," she says firmly...
...Kohoutek's only distinction. It will pass within 13 million miles of the sun. That close flyby, well within the orbit of Mercury, should make for a dazzling interaction between sun and comet. Perhaps most important of all, astronomers describe it as a "dirty" comet, one with an outer layer of dust that has probably never been stripped off by solar heating. That layer may prevent the comet from becoming as bright as originally predicted. But it also means that Kohoutek may be a "virgin," making its very first visit to the hot inner sanctum near the sun. That...