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Through an accident of onomatopoeia, the Rann of Kutch* looks just like it sounds. A reeking reach of black tidal mudflats bounded with sand dunes and etched by dead streams of salt and scum, it was until recently of interest only to hardy naturalists in search of the lesser flamingo and herds of wild asses. But the Rann separates India and Pakistan, and that fact alone was sufficient last week to make it another of the world's dangerous little flash points...
...strong tidal current made the times unusually fast. The Crimson varsity rossed the finish line in 6:09, approximately 30 seconds faster than its best me on the Charles...
...sits smack on top of an oil well. Their house-and 400 others around it-is on an oilfield owned by the Christiana Oil Corp. So valuable has the surface of the aging field become that Christiana has closed and cemented over its producing wells. It has converted the tidal slough on which they stood into a posh residential marina called Huntington Harbour, which sits on the Pacific Ocean south of Los Angeles. Like more and more U.S. companies, it has discovered that land can pay a prettier profit than almost any other investment...
...York absorbs all. Well actually not quite all. Two million commuters, we suppose, are never precisely absorbed. They leave their smoke--some non-vital essence imported from Tea-neck or Great Neck. The commuters, with their tired, tidal restlessness never know New York beyond the Newark bus or Long Island Railroad schedules. They scurry, a testament to the fact that New York is the most take-it-or-leave-it city in the world...
...curls, 6-ft.-long ears and a yard-wide mouth on its 7-ft.-high face. Seated, with hands in lap, palms up and thumbs together in the traditional Buddhist attitude of contemplation, it was completed more than 700 years ago on the seaside near Tokyo, and has withstood tidal waves (1495) and earthquakes (1923). The figure on the left in the cover design, from Thailand, and the one on the right, from Nepal, are familiar examples of the thousands of images of Buddha around the world...