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...result is desertification, a gradual conversion of marginal land into wasteland. This process is often driven by population pressures, which force people to work lands unsuitable for agriculture. In sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, settlers move into an area when it is wet and green, and then stay and remove the ground cover when the inevitable drought returns. Without a green barrier to stop them, sand dunes march inexorably forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Last Drops | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

According to congressional sources, the U.S. is apt to respond to Moi's crackdown by slashing aid to Kenya, which is scheduled to receive $53 million this year. The country is the biggest recipient of U.S. aid in sub-Saharan Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Quieting the Dissenters | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...site in the late 1970s. They had hung for years in Jeanne B's restaurant in Moss Landing. Several years ago, the alert wife of oceanographer Christopher Grech saw the relics and told her husband. He found Canepa, who recalled where he had snagged the pieces. The Navy's sub crew located the Macon on its first dive. Several museums have proposed joint recovery operations with the Navy so that the Macon can rise again and not be forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Found: the Lost Dirigible | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

Another problem is that Steve's has expanded into a sub and sandwich shop as well. Our advice to them is that they should just stick to the real thing, and try to perfect that first. Our advice to you is that you should go somewhere else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Ice Cream, Herrell's Takes the Cake | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...experience in solving abstract puzzles. And it is true that these mental processes are not explained by existing laws of physics. The answers will come, says Penrose, with the merger of Einstein's theory of relativity, which concerns itself with gravity, and quantum theory, which governs the sub-microscopic world. These two theories are mathematically incompatible, and physicists are hard at work trying to create a quantum version of gravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Those Computers Are Dummies | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

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