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...landscape that man could really imagine standing on Chryse Planitia. "Terrific!" exclaimed the Viking scientists. "Fantastic!" There before them in a spectacular 300° panoramic view was a rock-strewn-and apparently lifeless-plain reminiscent of the deserts of Arizona and northern Mexico. Clearly visible were bright patches of sand and dunes, some low ridges, what seemed to be an eroded crater and a landscape littered with rocks. Some of the more distinctively shaped rocks were promptly given names like "Midas muffler" and "Dutch shoe" by scientists. On the horizon, about two miles away, was a ridge that could...
...extermination team assembled the Jews of the German-occupied capital of the Ukraine, stripped them naked, lined them up on the edge of the ravine and machine-gunned them. Children were thrown into the ravine alive. The team halted only long enough to shovel sand over each layer of bodies. When the job was done 36 hours later, 33,771 Jews had perished-a record of efficiency unsurpassed even at Auschwitz. By the time the Germans were driven from Kiev in 1943, 100,000 to 200,000 Jews and non-Jews had been murdered at Babi...
...keep the air inside at a constant temperature all year round. Some species of ants apparently share the human characteristic of using tools. Joan and Gary Fellers of the University of Maryland reported recently in Science that four species of ants seem to use pieces of leaf, mud and sand grains as tools to carry soft foods from distant sources back to the colony, an efficient practice that enables them to compete more successfully with other species of ants...
...those rivers which spends its whole life trying to seduce a highway. Coiling, twisting, sprawling libidinously over rocks and sand, forever ruffling itself up, whispering, cajoling, the river only sought to make the road unbend. Meanwhile, the highway dodged back and forth from canyon wall to cliffside, avoiding the river's embrace, grinding grimly and duty-driven as straight and narrow as it could--in short, a coward of a highway with a yellow stripe down the middle of its back, vaulting over danger spots where the river threatened to merge. It was one highway the bulldozers and steamrollers...
...Americans come to independence with divergent interests and reasons: the fishermen, shipbuilders and merchants of New England, the traders and small farmers of the Middle Colonies, the planters and farmers of the south. The newly united states stretch 1,300 miles from Massachusetts' rocky Maine coast to the sand hills of Georgia. Sometimes regional differences, suspicions and hostilities among the colonies have been stronger than the antagonisms between England and the new continent. The celebrated old drawing depicting the colonies as separate segments of a serpent's body is hardly an exaggeration...