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Enclosed in a remote marshy area by huge dams made of coarse tailings covered with vegetation, the mammoth basin measures nearly 6 sq. mi. and will cost $370 million when fully completed. The other costs of the long environmental dispute have also been large, ranging from such intangibles as fears in Silver Bay of a permanent plant shutdown (which local physicians blame for a flurry of marriage breakups and a rise in prescriptions for tranquilizers) to the $7 million that Duluth had to pay for a filtration plant when the city's drinking water was found to contain...
...prevent amateur fortune hunters from scouring the ruins before experts from Dublin's National Museum got there, the Irish government invoked the Official Secrets Act and declared a 25-sq.-mi. zone around Killenaule a protected area. The chalice, paten and strainer, when found, were covered with a beaten bronze bowl; experts presume that monks had deliberately hidden them in the bog, probably to protect them from marauding Irishmen or even Vikings...
Just 2.5 meters (8 ft.) deep and 7,000 square meters (70,000 sq. ft.) in area, the Ein Bokek pond produces 150 kilowatts of power. To generate more power, significantly larger ponds would be needed. Physicist Harry Tabor, chief architect of Israel's solar pond program, notes, for instance, that surfaces of large solar ponds must be crisscrossed with plastic baffles. These gridlike barriers prevent winds from churning up the water, which would mix the critical layers and diminish the pond's effectiveness as a heat collector. But Israeli officials, who hope to build a five-megawatt...
...Montserratian and the reply will be "Me dey easy" (I'm easy) in an Irish brogue. The teardrop-shaped, 39½-sq.-mi. atoll (pop. 12,000) calls itself the Emerald Isle of the Car ibbean because it was largely settled by Irish Roman Catholic refugees starting in 1632. Montserrat's blacks, now 90% of the population, have owned their land since the early 19th century. They are very much in command of Erin West, and as cheery as their Connemara cousins...
Barbuda: The Gentle Isle. Nearly 75% of its 62 sq. mi. is beach: endless, empty stretches of white sand glimmering in the roseate reflection of billions of tiny shells. Barbuda (pronounced Ear-byou-duh), which has one of the Caribbean's few bird sanctuaries, also offers the area's best hunting: white crown pigeon, guinea hen, duck, fallow deer and feral boar...