Word: clues
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vast difference between suggesting that an earthquake is likely to happen and pinpointing when. For now, scientists cannot say whether a specific section of the San Andreas fault will snap in one year's time or in a hundred, but they are working on it. Seismic silence is one clue. Soundings taken along the San Andreas over the past 15 years showed that the small earthquakes that are a daily event along other parts of the system were not occurring in the Santa Cruz mountains. Scientists argued over the significance of this blank spot in the data. Then a year...
...think I have a clue about why people feel this...
...Appoint a council researcher historian. The council often debates issues endlessly without any clue about what precedent has been set by previous councils. The council debated ROTC for two weeks, and no one ever mentioned that the Harvard student government had already declared a position on ROTC in 1982--mostly because no one knew. The "historian" (a work-study job) should have a few days before each debate to prepare an information packet for council members on the upcoming topic. The result would be a better informed council...
...moment was indeed an historic one. Perhaps the NFL will finally get the clue that Blacks are just as qualified to coach as whites. But, as The Globe's Will McDonough so aptly wrote, "Art Shell is the first black head coach in the National Football League because he is a Raider...
Alzheimer's disease, among the most horrifying to strike the elderly, is also one of the most mysterious. Now scientists have found a small but tantalizing clue to its workings. Dr. Dennis J. Selkoe, co-director of the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, led a team of researchers that detected deposits of beta amyloid protein, long associated with Alzheimer's, in the skin, blood vessels and intestines of patients with the disorder. Previously the beta amyloid had been found only in the brains of Alzheimer's victims. The study, reported in last week...