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...billion-year-old Sudbury Crater, which is 300 km (188 miles) wide. From there, they flew to Iowa City, Iowa, where Gene examined core samples from the nearby Manson Crater, 35 km (22 miles) across and about 65 million years old and perhaps made by a chunk of the comet that killed the dinosaurs. Then, after a weekend back in Flagstaff, the Shoemakers departed for their annual one-month field trip in the Australian Outback, where the ancient and stable land surface, peppered with craters of all ages, is a happy hunting ground for geologists...
...tried to get out. She filed for divorce, got a restraining order, filed an assault-and-battery charge against him, forced him from the house they had bought with a large chunk of her money when they retired to Florida. But still, she says, he came, night after night, banging on windows and doors, trying to break the locks...
...video cassettes were to home video in the 1980s -- that will run home systems in years to come. Ten years ago, when Hawkins vowed to build an entertainment- software empire with unorthodox technology, he had few believers. Today, after his Silicon Valley company, Electronic Arts, stole a huge chunk of market share from giant Nintendo with popular games like PGA Golf Tour, Chuck Yeager Air Combat and John Madden Football, he is taken seriously indeed...
...more esoteric particles, the kind produced by accelerators and high-energy cosmic rays. In 1977 physicists discovered a fifth quark they dubbed bottom, and they have been looking for its partner, top, ever since. Not finding it would amaze and befuddle particle physicists. Without the top, a large chunk of the theoretical edifice, like an arch without a keystone, would come crashing down...
Andrew Purvis, who reported a good chunk of this week's cover package on Somalia, may have been destined for his assignment in Africa. When he was a boy, his paternal grandfather, a chemical-company executive, filled his head with great tales about his work and travels throughout the dark continent in the 1920s, while his maternal grandmother, who lived in South Africa, filled his mailbox with wooden spears, shields, even plastic Zulu dolls. When Purvis turned 21, he started out on a year of thumbing across Africa, riding mostly on transport trucks and camping out alone or staying with...