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Normally one of the gayest and most cheerful cities in Europe, Naples has been paralyzed by a cholera epidemic that killed 16 people in a month and hospitalized 822 more. As the epidemic itself waned, misfortune has overwhelmed the city. First the lucrative tourist trade dried up. Then the port was all but quarantined. Fishmongers who sold the sewage-contaminated mussels that spread the infection were virtually ostracized; their livelihood was ruined as police frogmen systematically uprooted the mussel beds. Afraid of contagion, Neapolitans, the most gregarious people in Italy, began to avoid one another, literally like the plague...
...long and colorful history of railroading, few tracks have been laid any faster than those of the Tanzam Railway, which is currently moving southwestward from the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam to the copper belt of Zambia at the extraordinary rate of three miles a day. The 1,162-mile line, financed with the help of a $402 million interest-free loan from China, is being built by 15,000 Chinese, laboring alongside 35,000 Zambians and Tanzanians. The hardest part of the job - 21 tunnels, 200 bridges and some 1,000 culverts in Tanzania - has already been completed...
...calculate that if such an object (which would have the mass of a moderate-sized asteroid) intercepted the earth's path at a velocity of about 25,000 m.p.h., it would have set off a shock wave quite similar to the one from the Siberian blast. They re port in Nature that the black hole's passage through the atmosphere would have left a deep blue trail of ionized particles like the streak seen by witnesses near the 1908 blast. Finally, the energy released by the black hole (comparable to that of a ten-megaton hydrogen bomb) could...
...Port Charlotte, Fla., the largest of General Development's eight second-home or retirement projects, covers 120,000 acres of flat scrubland, inhabited largely by retirees recruited up North. Features include a 180-bed hospital, 30 doctors, twelve dentists and three pharmacies. But some of the streets are cracking and others were flooded last summer...
Patrolling in leisurely fashion off the Syrian coast near the port of Tartus last week, the two Israeli reconnaissance jets looked deceptively vulnerable. They were, after all, 125 nautical miles from the nearest Israeli border. But when alert Syrian MiG-21s moved in for the kill, the sitting ducks turned out to be seductive decoys. Israeli Phantoms and Mirages flying cover high overhead in the partly overcast skies pounced on the Syrian planes. In what was by far the biggest air battle in the Middle East since the 1967 Six-Day War, 13 Syrian MIGS were downed and one Israeli...