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...Visitors. A lake dies of eutrophication, or quite simply over-nourishment. With or without humans, accumulations of sewage draining its way through the earth feeds a lake with nitrate and phosphate nutrients, the baby food of algae and plankton. Gingerly tugging the shore line at first, these willowy green growths are the stuff that giant, billowing swamps are later made of. After a few centuries or a millennium, a meadow sits where a lake once sparkled. In his wanton, willful way, man can speed up this process to mere decades...
...tortuous Mekong River Delta-a prime necessity if their rockets' five-mile strike range was to be applied effectively against inland Viet Cong installations. Slowly but steadily, the rocket men overcame the built-in limitations of their ships and in the process wrote a new manual on shore bombardment...
...delights in swimming in piranha-infested rivers just to prove that piranhas (which he sells for $50) are not man-eaters. In fact, about the only place he finds hazardous is the U.S., where he lives in an expensive, theoretically bombproof, glass-and-concrete house on the Jersey shore. There, with unlisted phone numbers and safe from advice-seeking laymen and other "bores," Axelrod can, and does, toss off as many as four T.F.H. booklets over a weekend...
...help. Gunning his motors, Anderson sped toward the crippled plane. Before he arrived, the crew bailed out: one pilot dropped into the waters of the Gulf barely half a mile from the North Viet Nam coast, the other a mile farther out. Both were soon under heavy shore fire from machine guns and mortars as they bobbed helplessly in the water. Six U.S. fighter planes zoomed in to blast the shore batteries while Anderson set his Albatross down in the rolling swells. While mortar shells fell within 30 yds. of the amphibian, first one pilot, then the other was pulled...
...open the canal to two-way traffic at a cost of $225 million. Now all he needs is the money. Although the canal earns 60% of Egypt's foreign exchange, Nasser lets it keep only 14% for reinvestment, uses the rest to shore up Egypt's shaky economy...