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...1970s Mao Zedong ordered the urban populations of northern China to "dig tunnels deep and store grain everywhere" in preparation for Soviet nuclear strikes. Now the vast network of tunnels beneath the streets of Harbin is being converted into a subway. Other shelters are already serving as underground hotels and shopping centers. In the meantime, citizens of Khabarovsk pour hot water for their tea not only from traditional Russian samovars but also from colorfully decorated thermos bottles imported from China. Plans are under way for a Chinese restaurant, staffed and supplied from across the river, to open later this year...
...groundwater at Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, the largest underground system in the world, is being contaminated by local sewage disposal. The park, which has 1.6 million annual visitors and is the most heavily used facility in the Midwest, often runs out of parking spaces...
...Schwarz, head of the A.M.A.'s AIDS task force. The doctors may also have had in mind a few lawsuits that have been filed seeking damages from physicians who did not warn partners of AIDS victims. Gay rights groups and civil libertarians object that the rule will drive AIDS underground: if victims think doctors will expose them, they will simply avoid seeing physicians...
...banks, leaving popular beaches high and dry, while parched Reno threatens to pump the lake still lower. In Arizona water scouts from the booming cities are roaming the landscape with checkbooks ready, buying farmland 90 miles distant just to get the groundwater rights. The vast Ogallala Aquifer, an underground lake that stretches from South Dakota to Texas, is being overdrawn by wells at a rate of 5 ft. a year in places, driving entire counties out of irrigated agriculture. Meanwhile, farms and cities from Salt Lake City to San Diego are literally drinking dry the Colorado River, which now peters...
...last December, however, Israeli officials singled him out as an instigator. In May, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, acting as Interior Minister, ordered Awad arrested and expelled. Without offering any hard evidence, security officials charged that Awad had incited "civil uprising" and helped write leaflets, distributed by the intifadeh's underground leadership, that advocated civil disobedience. Awad appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which ruled two weeks ago that he had forfeited his right to residence status in Israel once he became a U.S. citizen. This legalism enabled the government to expel Awad without having to substantiate claims that...