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Signs & Portents. Signs of the boom are apparent everywhere. On what used to be wasteland at the edge of Mexico City, workmen recently planted 10,000 lampposts along the street network of a big new housing development. One of Latin America's biggest medical centers is rising on 33 acres of downtown land-and it is only one of 6,000 new buildings, many of them spectacularly clad in plate glass or bright-colored masonry, that are going up yearly in the capital...
...became a raging torrent, scourging the Damodar Valley with malarial, crop-destroying floods. Last week the fickle Damodar could bear a new name: the River of Promise. Across its path stood three mighty dams, shunting water into irrigation ditches that will eventually reclaim 1,026,000 acres of wasteland, and four humming power plants generating 200,000 kw. of electric-power capacity. The valley's desert was turning green with crops; plumes of smoke from new plants rose in the air. With 80% of India's coal, 98% of its iron ore, and all of its copper...
Last November, when Republican John Phillips announced that he would give up his seat in Congress as the Representative of California's 2gth District (the Imperial and Coachella Valleys and surrounding wasteland), Jackie instantly tossed her Lilly Dache bonnet in the ring (TIME, Nov. 14). It was no feminine caprice: Jackie Cochran has long had a hankering to go to Congress, and, unlike many of the big landowners in the Imperial Valley (40% of the land is held by absentee owners), she has spent a great deal of the past 20 years personally operating the 600-acre Odium ranch...
...young men to go west, Israel also has a slogan for its young people. Exhorts a popular Israeli song: "Go south, young man." But Israel's south, the Negev, is no land of opportunity. Comprising half the nation's land total, the Negev is a forbidding wasteland spotted with the rare patches of green of a few farms expensively irrigated by dedicated pioneers. Yet to determined Zionists, the Negev could provide an outlet for Israel's rapidly growing population (more than doubled since 1948, to 1,700,000) and abundant crops-if there were abundant water...
...party will face many dangers, Franck said, most of them unknown. Besides the usual hazards of freezing to death and running out of food, the group will have to navigate the 1000-mile wasteland without the aid of maps. Since no guides are available and Tyrell left no charts, the expedition knows nothing about the location of dangerous rapids and waterfalls...