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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Projecting your world-population curve to the year 2600 gives a density of one person for every 2 sq. ft. of usable land. The inescapable result for mankind will be standing room only. Well, if all else fails, this should solve the problem...
Luxury Kills. In an effort called Operation Coccinclle (Ladybird), five companies of legionnaires are sweeping a 4,000-sq.-mi. area near the Sudanese border, looking for rebel bands heading south in search of water. At day's end, Garros set up an ambush around one of the major water routes. The setting sun, red with dust, soon grazed the horizon like a biblical omen in the sky. A few seconds later it was night; there is no twilight in Africa, and darkness comes as unexpectedly as death...
California is a blessed state?young, aggressive, progressive. And yet it is rapidly losing many of its best natural qualities through heedless exploitation of its resources. Among its problems: OPEN SPACE. Every year, Greater Los Angeles' growth consumes 70 sq. mi. of open land. Not only is prime farm land taken out of production, but it is also developed
...also one of the most devastating civil wars in modern history. At the outset, Biafra's people numbered 12 million-about two-thirds of them Ibo, the rest belonging to minority tribes (as does Effiong, who is an Ibibio). The secessionist territory covered nearly 30,000 sq. mi. and included some of Nigeria's richest land. At the close of the war, 3,500,000 people were squeezed into a devastated area of 1,500 sq. mi. As many as 2,000,000 Biafrans, many of them children, had perished. The great majority had cruelly and slowly starved...
...bathroom boutique in London's elegant Mayfair district has a familiar ring. It is a takeoff on a couplet* from 17th century English Poet Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." There is nothing familiar about the bathtub for sale inside. It measures a hearty 24 sq. ft., is meant for two-preferably not square-bathers, and is fast becoming the new style in ablutions for the luxury trade around the world...