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...face. The geologists' reports left no doubt: the Wilmington oil sands, more than 1,000 ft. thick, have no strong rock over them. When the oil flowed out, the sands shrank slowly, and the surface sank, forming a great bowl, 24 ft. deep and more than 20 sq. mi. in area, that now reaches from the business center of Long Beach to the boundary of Los Angeles...
...British annexed the adjoining deep-water port of Aden, which lies in the extreme southeast corner of the Arabian peninsula, and later staked out a 112,000-sq.-mi protectorate in the area around it. After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Aden became (and will be again when the Suez Canal reopens) an important fueling port and naval station on the trade route to India, Southeast Asia, Australia and East Africa. The British are determined to keep...
...Juan Islands, he soon learned, make no place for a 9-to-5 practice. To make emergency calls anywhere in the 200-sq.-mi. archipelago, Heath took flying lessons, bought a Piper Tri-Pacer. He keeps cars at Friday Harbor and Eastsound, and a third at Bellingham, where he takes his more serious cases for hospital treatment. He also added a 20-ft. cabin cruiser to his transport fleet, painted it shocking pink for easy visibility. He makes it a point to leave word of his whereabouts-even on his rare fishing trips-so that local pilots can find...
...Barbados, 166 sq. mi. of sugar cane jampacked with 228,000 people, a population of 1,475 to the square mile. Led by stolid, dour Prime Minister Grantley Adams, 58, a onetime Socialist militant who softened in office. Barbados is the loyal "little Britain" of the islands...
Body & Bucket. The most obvious change in the environment as a man dives deeper is the increase in pressure: equivalent to a whole atmosphere (15 lb. per sq. in.) for every 33 ft. of salt water (34 ft. of fresh water) through which he descends. Much nonsense has been written about this "tremendous crushing force," Dr. Lanphier notes, but "the body as a whole, being made up of solids and fluids, is no more likely to be crushed than a bucket of water lowered into the depths." Damage can occur only when there is an unequalized difference of pressure...