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...United States and therefore probably the world, shipping almost 3 million tons of coal each year. Martiki officials are clearly proud of their operation and sincere in their excitement at the prospect of resulting the landscape. Martiki's 18,000 acres cover two mountains on opposite sides of a steep valley. In about 25 years when the coal is gone and the strip-mined land is evened out, the entire area will be at a level about half way between the original peaks and the creek bend in the valley below. "There's not enough flat land around here," says...
Such large-scale earth-moving can have serious implications for the entire region's ecology. There was never much topsoil in the area but thick forest held the ground and rainwater tumbled down innumerable streams hidden in extremely steep valleys. But during and after mining, when the trees and topsoil are gone, water flows straight down the hillside, taking a good portion of the mountain with it. Silt has filled in many-of the area's streams, and the water table is deteriorating as previously reliable wells run dry. Martiki has built a large silt dam to capture the dirt...
...fall was accelerated by a fluke wind that caused the speed brakes in the shuttle's rudder to retreat automatically. Finally, only 143 ft. off the ground, Lousma took over the stick. Columbia came in so "high and hot"-pilot's lingo for fast and steep-that Fullerton released the main landing gears a scant seven seconds before touchdown. (Had they jammed, he could have freed them in an instant by firing an explosive charge...
Despite the disastrous housing market, home prices are declining only modestly. After the very steep increases in the past decade, the median cost of a home sold in the U.S. dropped from $68,900 last year to $66,500 in February. In California, where house prices ballooned by 200% between 1975 and 1980, the cost went up another 5% last year and an additional 6% in January and February...
...staid, venerable (197-year-old) Times of London, was appointing an imaginative and sternly independent editor. Murdoch hailed Harold Evans, for 14 years the chief of the separate Sunday Times, as Britain's "greatest editor" and the ideal man to reverse the daily paper's long, steep financial slide...