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Nonetheless, the evidence in favor of an impact was rapidly accumulating. Other geologists uncovered similar iridium deposits just above Cretaceous rock beneath the floor of the Atlantic Ocean and under the Raton basin in northeastern New Mexico. Additional analysis showed that the samples contained ratios of gold and platinum nearly identical to those found in meteorites. Furthermore, other sediment layers containing abnormally high amounts of iridium were discovered under both the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico; these layers were deposited around the time of a smaller mass extinction that occurred more than 30 million years...
...Administration's Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Kissinger Commission report are getting virtually no attention at all. That is because the recommendations they make--for economic aid and trade--are not as glamorous or as interesting as military and covert assistance. But economics and ideology are our strongest suits. If we competed with the Soviet Union in those areas, it would be no contest...
...varsity races in the Charles River Basin at noon, the junior varsity at 11:30 a.m., the first freshman at 10:45, third varsity at 10 and second freshmen...
...some preliminary interviews. "Everyone I talked to," he says, "told me, 'One thing about covering Boone--you'll enjoy yourself.' And they were absolutely right." Ungeheuer retraced Pickens' life from its beginnings in Holdenville, Okla., to his early days as a geologist and wildcatter in the Southwest's Anadarko Basin, to Denver, Houston, Wall Street and Amarillo, Texas, his present home and headquarters...
Detective John Flynn of the Lower Basin division of the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), which is heading the investigation, to refused to discuss the case yesterday...