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Alaska: The North Slope oil strike has produced the sort of rip-roaring boom that is just a memory in most of the "South 48" states. While unemployment still runs high among the Eskimos and the Aleuts, the oil workers' only problem is getting time off. North Slope truck drivers earn $76 a day, Monday through Friday, and $100 a day on Saturday and Sunday-but they work six weeks straight before knocking off two weeks to rest...
...soft, bamboo-covered Senri Hills, which slope gently skyward beyond the city of Osaka, have for centuries been home only to snakes and a host of insects. Not any more; at least, not for the moment. Today the Senri range, the site of Japan's gaudy Expo '70, throbs with life. After only four weeks, the turnstiles at the 815-acre, 73-nation exhibit have clicked off 8,500,000 visitors. The one-day high: 441,000, about equal to the entire population of Buffalo, N.Y. Before the rising sun sets on the 183-day extravaganza, some...
...Burma and Thailand along the Indonesian Archipelago to as far south as Australia. If drilling proves them right, the results can not only spur development of the whole region, but will also surely alter the balance of global oil politics. Southeast Asia, along with Alaska's North Slope and the Siberian field that the Soviets revealed last month, could give world oil users great new sources of supply...
...Tundra study concentrates on what modern man can do to preserve the especially fragile arctic environment around Alaska's oil-rich North Slope...
...terraces, planting trees and girding the mountainsides with thousands of steel rails. But their most formidable snowbreakers are often inadequate. Two years ago, only a few miles from the institute and in an area adjudged safe because of the protective presence of a pine forest higher on the slope, an avalanche killed 13 people and demolished 20 chalets. Unable to prevent avalanches, the Swiss believe that it sometimes pays to start them at a time and place of their choosing. One method is to blast avalanche-prone slopes with mortars and grenades, a technique also used by U.S. Forest Service...