Focus articles from March 1993

Focus archives from March 1993

The Danish connection: three new fixed links for Sjaelland? (improved routes between Scandinavia and mainland Europe)
March 22, 1993... With their combined population of 18 million people, high GDP per inhabitant, raw material products, and sophisticated industries, the countries of Scandinavia would welcome and benefit from faster highway and railroad links for the movement of...

Types of barns in the eastern United States.
March 22, 1993... Barns are the most imposing structures on the rural landscape. Most Americans have looked at barns from the highway, but few have ever actually set foot in one, and fewer still have any sense of their role in the rural economy. Barns are tools...

The real river that runs through it: Montana's imperilled Blackfoot. (Blackfoot River)
March 22, 1993... "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing." That is the classic opening sentence of Norman Maclean's novella, A River Runs Through It--a story of family closeness and loss and of the wisdom taught by the rhythms...

Ashio: rocks, rust and tourism on Japan's copper mountain.
March 22, 1993... With so much global attention being focused these days on the great wealth and large trade surpluses of Japan, it is easy to forget that the nation has economic problems of its own. Not the least of these is high unemployment and economic...

Southeastern Spain's greenhouse landscape: plastic over sand-beds.
March 22, 1993... To most people on either side of the Atlantic, the subject of greenhouses in Europe probably evokes images of the glass structures long associated with the northern countries, especially the Netherlands and Germany. While such images are indeed...