National Geographic January 1994

CONDITION   Good, unmarked pages, reading wear

CONTENTS      

·        New Eyes on the Universe – By Bradford A Smith; Photographs by Roger H Ressmeyer – With revolutionary and a fleet of spaceborne instruments, scientists are seeing farther , and more clearly, into the universe. Now they stubble to mak seense of this extraordinary information.

·        Great Flood of ’93 – by Alan Mairson – When water rampaged through the upper Mississippi River basin last summer, it left both broken levees and broken hearts, stirring up a century-old debate on U.S. flood-control policy.

·        Riding Out the Worst of Times – By Bill Bryson; Photographs by Jodi Cobb – A native son returns to flood-ravaged Des Moins, Iowa, and finds its virtues of grit, good humor, and neighborly generosity holding fast.

·        Kyushu – By Tracy Dahlby; Photographs by Michael S Yamashita – Japan’s southernmost main island sheds its backwater image as it lures research labs and high-tech factories—and claims its share of the Pacific Rim boom.

·        Macaws: Winged Rainbows – By Charles A Munn; Photographs by Frans Lanting – Deep in the Peruvian Amazon these largest of parrots gather to eat riverbank clay. Why they do so is one of the many questions explored in this first detailed study of macaws in the wild.

COVER

·        With perhaps the strongest bite of any bird, a blue-and-yellow macaw in the Peruvian Amazon tears away fruit pulp to crack and eat the seed. Photograph by Frans Lanting

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