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Madison is also a biologist. His job is to manage game populations and enforce hunting and fishing laws in a vast 1,200-sq.-mi. area, most of it in the White River National Forest of northwest Colorado. It is the home of the largest elk herd (about 18,000 in all) in North America. His base is Meeker (pop. 2,356), the sleepy seat of Rio Blanco County, a town without a traffic light or a movie theater. In winter deer wander through town and are sometimes killed by motorists on Main Street. The town's economy depends...
...Netherlands, the panel announced the settlement of a 20-year-old case between the U.S. and Canada over the Gulf of Maine, which lies between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. The decision awards the U.S. about two-thirds of the gulf and Canada the rest. The 30,000-sq.-mi. area includes the Georges Bank, one of the world's richest fishing grounds, which may also contain sizable deposits of oil and natural...
...singularly unpredictable in years past, with its violent and frequent pendulum swings from left to right. Clearly, the Communist nation has much to gain from protecting its capitalist jewel: the per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong is 18 times that of China, and already the 400-sq.-mile colony supplies its colossal neighbor with up to 40% of its entire foreign-exchange earnings. Even those practical considerations, however, could be swept aside during a leftist backlash. In that event, noted a veteran China hand in the British Foreign Office, "the rational argument of the need for hard currency...
...breaking products are intended to make the acrobatics easier on the knees and skull. Most break dancers do their gyrations on cardboard retrieved from supermarket dumpsters or on sheets of linoleum. Early in September, though, a California toy company called Koki rolled out a 4½-ft.-sq. polyvinyl dance mat designed especially for breaking. Price: $18. The company is promoting the mats with a $1 million TV ad campaign, and hopes to sell 500,000 by Christmas. Orders are already tumbling in from K mart stores across the country. Tucked inside the packages will be catalogs featuring matching...
...Spanish Sahara in 1975 by exhorting 350,000 Moroccans to march unarmed into the disputed territory while Spanish soldiers looked on in disbelief. He gained the upper hand in his eight-year desert war with the Marxist Polisario guerrillas by enclosing almost half of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara with a 750-mile-long wall of sand and rock. Just last month he caught Western leaders off balance yet again by signing a treaty of friendship with Libya's notorious Muammar Gaddafi. Says a West European diplomat: "No matter what Hassan does, it seems to turn...