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...Barker of the University of Birmingham led a multinational scientific team aboard the research ship Glomar Challenger this spring, probing the ocean depths east of the Falkland Islands. Lowering a coring drill 8,500 ft. to the bottom, they penetrated through 1,835 ft. of sediment before beginning to bite into the solid rock that they were looking for. Analysis of the core samples brought to the surface identified it as granite about 600 million years old. The find proved that the rock was continental shelf and not ocean basin crust, which is primarily basalt (solidified lava), which...
...summer home and invites the princess to visit him there, hoping to win her affections. His hopes come to naught, however, and he resorts to peering through a hole in the wall to watch her make love to another woman. Years later, he learns of her death by cobra-bite in Thailand...
...that same period the bite rate doubled. Beck estimates the number of dog bites in the U.S. each year at 1 million, the annual cost of managing the problem at $50 million. There are no federal, state or municipal laws regulating breeding, although there are many statutes on humane treatment. But odds are that canine affairs will now receive closer attention. Last April a poll by Nation's Cities magazine showed 60.6% of U.S. mayors reporting that animal problems lead the list of urban complaints-with traffic in second place and crime in a distant eighth...
...bill establishing the independent legal services corporation is currently legal services corporation is currently lying on President Nixon's desk. If he signs it--as he almost surely will--the cutting edge of legal services for the poor will lose much of its bite. Funds for both the Harvard and Consumer Law centers, as well as for the 16 other back-up bodies, will end in the fall. But the centers, struggling for years against the entrenched abuses of American society, are accustomed to adversity, and, if they can help it, they will not die without a struggle...
...supporters have become notorious for their train ripping, window smashing, bovver booting, bottle fights. Recent British fan conduct in Holland led to Times editorials and high-level apologies on behalf of the whole British nation. Volatile Latins, though less ebullient than the stolid Anglo-Saxons, have been known to bite ears off referees...