Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from a public faucet and using the street as a toilet. Many go through a whole lifetime without once taking a bath. Infants who play in garbage and excrement are themselves covered with flies, and they suffer from chronic dysentery, as well as lung diseases aggravated by dust and sand filtering into their homes. Despite free compulsory education, only about 25% of the population can read and write...
...islands that dot the Indian Ocean, few could be more obscure than Tromelin. Understandably so. It is a tear-shaped chunk of sand less than one mile long and 700 yards wide. Its flora consists of four coconut palms and some nondescript bushes that submerge whenever the sea turns rough. Nonetheless, Tromelin has become the focus of a heated political controversy. Three nations claim it: France, which currently controls it, Mauritius and Madagascar (formerly Malagasy). Their feud may have to be resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague...
...rapidly has the seven-mile-long island degenerated that it can be fairly described as a seedy backwater of debt-ridden hotels, gaudy condominiums and decaying apartments. It has a permanent population so old (median age: 68) that lifeguards spend more time assisting heart-attack victims on the sand than pulling foundering swimmers out of the surf...
...Beginning in the icebound Arctic, they take the armchair beachcomber on a scenic tour down the East Coast, past Cape Cod and the islands, along the perilous shoals of the Carolinas, through the lost waterways of the Everglades and Louisiana bayous, then up the West Coast from the desert sands of Baja California, past the cypresses of Monterey and the great coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest to the fog-shrouded Aleutians. Readers may not finish the tour with sand in their shoes, but most will close this lyrical volume yearning for the smell of salt...
...anthropology. Richard E Leakey, renowned paleoanthropologist (he digs up skulls and other bone fragments in Africa) confronts the problem of envisioning human ancestors that lived over 2 million years ago and have left us only a few clues in the form of bone splinters now half covered by desert sand...