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...disaster left behind an oil slick that at one point measured 1,200 sq. mi. For at least three days, it threatened marine species along South Africa's coast, including the rock lobster and half the world's population of jackass penguins. But inexplicably, the seasonal westerly wind that was blowing the slick toward shore shifted back to a southeaster, pushing the sticky mass, including a particularly threatening "mousse" of heavy oil, back out to sea. The favorable weather, declared Bill Bricknell, South Africa's chief oil-pollution-control officer, "has been nothing short of miraculous...
...paid off. Occidental (1982 sales: $18.2 billion) has become the first U.S. company to win oil rights from the Chinese in a round of competitive bidding. By early next year, the Los Angeles-based company and a consortium of minority foreign partners expect to begin drilling on two 415-sq.-mi. tracts in the South China Sea. Said Hammer, who celebrated his success in the banquet hall of the Peking Hotel while a Chinese orchestra played Turkey in the Straw: "This is one of the largest unexplored basins in the world. We are very proud...
...some of the groups are pro-Western, some are Communist. But all are pledged to similar objectives. Among them: to force Turkish acknowledgment of and to avenge the alleged 1915 massacre of more than 1 million Armenians; and to gain political autonomy over their lost homeland, a 57,000-sq.-mi. region located along Turkey's border with the Soviet Union. Turkey has long maintained that the Armenian claims are baseless...
...hours a day to work from claustrophobia-inducing apartments out in suburban regions that look like an interminable Bridgeport smudging into the outskirts of Albuquerque. Some 75% of the population lives in the narrow Pacific corridor from Tokyo to Hiroshima. Land prices are impossibly high (more than $100 per sq. ft. in suburban Tokyo). Newly married couples despair of ever owning a house (a typical two-room Tokyo apartment measuring 400 sq. ft. costs more than $83,000). The clutter of Japanese life is not only difficult, it is sometimes noxious. Lakes and swamps are polluted. For a people with...
...companies began hollowing out the caverns in the 1940s as they dug for limestone for highway construction. Rather than use the opencut quarry method, which scars the landscape, miners tunneled deep into bluffs along a limestone seam 22½ ft. thick, creating rooms with pillars. In all, 200 million sq. ft. of space has been scooped out over the years, and an additional 6 million sq. ft. is being opened up annually...