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FOCUS on Geography Volume 39, #1, Spring 1989 TABLE OF CONTENTS Feature Articles:   Ireland Today: Life in the Big Village, by Kim McQuaid.   Halting Land Degradation, Part I, by Sandra Postel.   Spring Break at Padre Island: A New Kind of Tourism, by Jerry Gerlach.   Biosphere Reserves: What, Where and Why?   U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program.   USSR: Mapping the Blank Spots, by George J. Demko and W. Hezlep.   Dallas: A Beast With Ears, by Bret Wallach.   Weather Prediction in the Classroom, by Marc Eichen.   Cherry: The Biogeography of Urban Species, by Steven D. Garber.   Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Would H. L. Mencken Recognize It?, by James M. Rubenstein.   The 26th Congress of the International Geographical Union , by Wilbur Zelinsky.   My Ten Most Evocative Place-Names, by Barbara Lynch.   My Ten Most Evocative Place-Names, by Thomas Leech.   The Seychelles (Treasure) Islands, by Frank and Dora Lambrecht.   Greenhouse Effect?, by Harm J. de Blij.