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...national team thought he was ready this year. After one of the team's goalies was injured, Kenney was asked to join the team for the Marlboro Cup tournament at the Meadowland. He didn't see any action, but that didn't matter...
Millions of acres of woodland and meadowland were taken to make way for highways, shopping centers and regimented rows of crackerbox housing. The result was in too many cases a voracious sprawl of "slurbs," combining the worst elements of city and country. It is a fact of life that suburban houses are far more comfortable than most inner-city dwellings. But the suburbs have spawned their own problems of burgeoning school populations, transit, highways, hospitals, sewage and water supplies...
...fear of overcrowding its pocket paradise, Liechtenstein (pop. 18,000) has granted citizenship to only a dozen foreigners since 1950, and worries mightily over its rising birth rate. An unsullied blend of lush meadowland and soaring Alpine peaks, the nation nestles so unobtrusively between Austria and Switzerland (since 1924 it has shared currency, customs services and foreign service with the Swiss) that vacationers driving through are often unaware that they are even in Franz Josef's fief. This bothers Liechtenstein's government not at all, for, as Prime Minister Alexander Frick once observed, the sight of idle tourists...
...barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen and dwarf shrub; the dense forest zone, or the taiga, where arctic birches sprout beside palm trees; the steppe, a black earth meadowland which, when properly farmed, is among the most productive soils in the world; and farthest south, the deserts. In this overwhelming setting, Russia made its way much as the U.S. did in its Far West. In each case there were nomadic tribes-the Tartars, Kirghiz and Samoyeds in Siberia like...
...those other brooding giants of the north: Norwegian Edvard Munch and Belgian Recluse James Ensor. As a peasant lad, Nolde was early given to hallucinations. By night, "the cracks in the peeling walls became faces and fantastic shapes." By day, he imagined raging storms racing across the flat meadowland near the North...