How Big is Aruba?
[Update: For those who are looking for an answer to the question, the Caribbean island of Aruba has an area of 193 sq km (74 sq mi), about the area of Washington, DC.]
This just in from the public-radio station I listen to most days, WBJC*: There is some sort of search, evidently with teams of volunteers, going on for a missing child# in Aruba. The search is covering a "tip of the island". According to my newscaster**: "the call originally went out to comb the entire island but had to be scaled back when officials discovered how large Aruba actually was."
Thank goodness for those officials, keeping an eye on the size of things there.
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*WBJC is from Baltimore. I rarely listen to WETA from Washington, DC, and haven't done for years. Over the last decade the amount of real music they played kept going down in favor of public-affairs programming, of which there is no dearth in DC. Several weeks ago they switched to all-talk radio. Blech, even if it is largely BBC talk programs.
#Update [7 June]: I understand from friends that the missing person is a teen-ager who was celebrating graduation from high school. However, Aruba is still just as large as it was yesterday.
**A local, public-radio announcer, more in tune with pronouncing difficult names of classical-music composers and performers, who likes reading headlines twice an hour.