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...second plan was more radical: to move Pakistan's capital from hot, humid, and filthy Karachi to a cool, high (elevation: 5,264 ft.) valley surrounded by a crescent of hills on the Potwar plateau some 700 miles to the north. Uncomfortably sitting on the steaming Arabian Sea with only parched desert behind it, Karachi since 1947 has mushroomed in population from 350,000 to an overcrowded 2,000,000. Government offices are spotted awkwardly in rented space across the sprawling city; water supply is at best uncertain over 60 miles of sand; and in the ill-favored climate...
British Author Smith, who died early this year, deals with the Little Karoo, an isolated South African plateau peopled by pious, hardfisted Boer farmers who are as trapped by their environment and culture as any of Author Undset's bedeviled Norwegians. For them, too, "man is distant, but God is near." In The Miller, a baffled man expresses his outrage at the approach of death by browbeating his timid wife, who runs "to serve him with quick, fluttering movements like those of a frightened hen"; in The Sinner, a lifetime of hard work and small returns explodes in passion...
...began in the 1920s. Violence passed like a bad tornado. Scientists and statisticians grew to greater importance. Probably the most important geological breakthrough came when Geologist Everette Lee DeGolyer used a reflection seismograph on the Seminole plateau, sending man-made sounds deep into the earth and gauging the echo to find "the rock beds humped up into a little dome which might be a trap for oil." In 1930 the well blew in at 8,000 bbl. a day. "This was the most important well drilled in America since Spindletop; reflection seismograph revolutionized prospecting for oil as completely as Spindletop...
...place where the Dalai Lama stays automatically becomes sacred and may not be used again as a dwelling.) Once across the Tsangpo and protected by jubilant Khamba tribesmen, he took a course unanticipated by the Chinese, headed for the Indian border town of Towang in the wild and wooded plateau region of Assam province...
...first official season as head coach next year, Brooks will have excellent material which has the physical potential to hit a new plateau but only time will tell how high...