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QATAR. Throughout the 4,400-sq.-mi. desert peninsula in eastern Arabia, the land does not rise higher than 360 ft. above sea level; the average annual rainfall is a scant 4 in., falling mostly in short cloudbursts in winter. Slowly, with great care, a modern state is being built. Qatar is one of the lesser oil producers in the gulf (411,000 bbl. a day), but the population is also small (250,000, of whom only 60,000 are native Qataris). The country has been found to have vast natural gas reserves, though at current prices development is considered...
Almost anywhere in the , wedge-shaped 400-km² (150 sq. mi.) blast zone stretching north of the mountain, all appears to be devastated, a sea of gray volcanic ash. Geologists and biologists believe it will be decades before life comes back to the mountain's highest slopes. Yet lower down, in what looks like a totally forbidding, colorless world, life, incredibly, is returning. Deer tracks have been spotted on otherwise barren slopes; new growths of ferns and skunk cabbage are poking through the ash. Tree sprouts are "coming up beautifully," says John Allen, 72, geology professor emeritus...
...Lowell, Mass., founded in 1826 as one of the U.S.'s earliest planned industrial communities, slipped into business decline when the textile industry moved south after World War II. But Lowell decided to prime its own pump. It sold urban-renewal land to new companies for 25? per sq. ft.; then it lent them money at low rates to build new plants. Wang Laboratories Inc., one of the UJS.'s leading manufacturers of word processors, received a $5 million low-interest loan from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to build a $ 15 million office tower...
Even Israel's prison officials admit that conditions in their maximum-security prisons, which house convicted Palestinian terrorists almost exclusively, are worse than in any Western country. The average cell space per prisoner in Israel is 28 sq. ft., compared with 65 to 85 in Western Europe. Eight or more convicts are herded into cramped cells without real beds or tables. They are permitted outside their cells for only two daily hours of exercise or for visits with lawyers. Once a month, they are permitted a half-hour visit with relatives...
...turned the actual Southfork Ranch into a Texas tourist attraction second only to the Alamo. The neighbors threatened to sue, but Southfork Owner Joe Rand Duncan, a wealthy land developer, was delighted with the publicity: he plans to sell clumps of the hallowed turf for $15 to $25 per sq...