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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...
Rancor of all kinds was thick before the final. Then the game began, and the rancor melted. The real surprise was not how stirring every minute of the game was, but how appealing every participant in it seemed, even the coaches. "I was outcoached tonight," Smith tried to say in victory afterward, but Thompson wouldn't let him. "That man's forgotten more basketball than I know...
...thick lenses and hard hearing...
...next morning government air strikes were hitting the area around Osicala, sending up thick gray clouds of smoke in the valley and surrounding hillsides. Some of the villagers stood, arms crossed, on points of high ground, hoping for a better view. Don Juan Portillo, 82, who was born in Osicala and served four years as village mayor in the 1930s, remained in the large front room of his house, a space that was empty except for straight wooden benches along each wall. Don Juan was philosophical about the future of Osicala. Said he: "Life here may cease to exist...
...pictures through red, blue and green filters. This information was relayed back to earth, where the separate images were combined. Both landers provided panoramic views of a landscape strewn with rust-colored rocks. At either edge, the photographs showed patches of the orange Venusian sky, so colored because the thick atmosphere absorbs all the blue wavelengths in the light. In clarity and detail, the pictures exceeded the only previous views of Venus' surface, a series of black-and-white photographs radioed back by two earlier Soviet probes...