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...sure you get enough sleep on Tuesday night, you might have to get to bed earlier. You don't have to adjust your schedule by much: about 1.26 millionths of a second ought to do it. According to a NASA scientist's computer modeling, that's how much an Earth day should have been shortened by the subterranean upheaval that triggered the Feb. 27 earthquake in Chile. Some basic physics explains why. (See pictures of Chile's massive earthquake...
Every point on the planet takes the same 24 hours or so to complete a single rotation around Earth's north-south axis, but some points have to move faster than others to spin the full 360° by the one-day deadline. That's because some parts of the planet are much bigger than others, at least in circumference. The Earth's equator is 24,901 miles around. The perimeter of the Arctic Circle, by contrast, is just 9,945 miles, and if you stand five feet from the North Pole, the circumference you inscribe as the Earth rotates...
What Israeli archaeologists and Elad are doing is outrageous. They give themselves the right to demolish Palestinian dwellers' houses and force them to move without authorization and respect for human rights. Acting like this will not bring peace. Why on earth do people do such things in the name of religion? The same blood flows in our veins. Stephane Leap, PARIS...
...What Israeli archaeologists and Elad are doing is outrageous. They give themselves the right to demolish Palestinian dwellers' houses and force them to move without authorization and respect for human rights. Acting like this will not bring peace. Why on earth do people do such things in the name of religion? The same blood flows in our veins. Stephane Leap Paris...
Before she knew it, the fall semester was over, and Jane W. Baldwin ’11, an earth and planetary sciences concentrator, found herself struggling to finish over reading period a final project worth 50 percent of her Applied Math 115 grade...