Word: crusting
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Hurtling in from space some 16 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into the dusty surface of Mars and exploded with more power than a million hydrogen bombs, gouging a deep crater in the planet's crust and lofting huge quantities of rock and soil into the thin Martian atmosphere. While most of the debris fell back to the surface, some of the rocks, fired upward by the blast at high velocities, escaped the weak tug of Martian gravity and entered into orbits of their own around...
...contamination of the meteorite during its long Antarctic layover? Not likely, says Richard Zare, a Stanford University chemist who developed and used the analyzer that detected the PAHS and other meteoric hydrocarbons. The researchers performed a "depth profile" on the meteorite, and although no pahs were found on its crust, they were found inside the rock. Had any of Earth's abundant PAHS seeped in, says Zare, he would have expected to find more contamination on the outside than in the interior...
...muddy scrum against the wall. The last goal was recorded in 1909. Uniforms are complicated. There are variations on the famous black swallowtail coat. Seniors who belong to Pop, an elite self-elected group of academic and sport leaders, have their own version. So do "tugs," the academic upper crust...
Birdcage director Mike Nichols is trying a different perch: he made his British stage debut, performing in the Wallace Shawn- penned upper-crust satire The Designated Mourner. Critics gave a thumbs-down to the stream-of-consciousness chatter running through the play but praised the former Nichols-and-May star's "meticulous performance" as the cultivated cynic...
Such tableaus, breaking through the crust of American denial and euphemism about old age, madness, sex and death, packed a wallop 30 years ago, and still do today. It's not surprising that the Kienholzes' work was more popular in Europe, particularly Germany, than in their native America: Americans have never had much appreciation of satire, especially in the visual arts. Even today Kienholz's detractors think he was practicing some kind of anti-Americanism (along with the rest of the godless liberal queer whiners favored by the National Endowment for the Arts, natch). Actually, he was at least...