Word: earth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small United Nations table flag, the North Koreans followed suit-only theirs was six inches taller. In this case, however, Joy "hastened to veto any tendency toward such competition," as he wrote in his book, How Communists Negotiate, "thereby perhaps averting construction of the two tallest flagpoles on earth." The meetings have now turned into what one participant calls "the battle of the bladder." They often run for eight hours, and if any of the senior members leaves the table before the ses sion is formally closed, the other side interprets it as a deliberate walkout. The talks are also...
...really relevant," says a young raider. To the fedayeen, the model and example is the Algerian revolution. For ideology, they look to its apostle, Frantz Fanon, the late Martinique-born Negro psychiatrist, who preached in The Wretched of the Earth that for oppressed and colonized people of the world "violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect...
Instead of spinning smoothly, the earth wobbles on its axis. By sighting telescopes on distant fixed stars and carefully measuring their apparent movement, scientists have determined that the North and South poles-the points at which the imaginary axis of rotation pierces the earth's surface-are continually on the move. Over the course of a year, they wander about the polar regions in roughly circular paths about 50 ft. in diameter...
Analyzing data at the University of Western Ontario, Geophysicists Lula Mansinha and Douglas Smylie found that the circular path traced by the North Pole between 1957 and 1968 was actually composed of interrupted arcs that spiraled almost imperceptibly inward. The inward motion, they decided, was an indication that the earth's wobble had begun to decrease for short periods of time. But between each of the arcs comprising the circle there was a break, marking a time when the wobble suddenly increased. Significantly, Mansinha and Smylie reported in Science, nearly all of the breaks occurred at the time...
...geophysicists also discovered that there were noticeable changes in the path of the wandering pole from five to 20 days before many of the major earth tremors. By tracking the pole path more regularly, and by placing sensitive instruments along the earth's major fault zones, they suggested, scientists may some day provide advance warning not only on where and when an earthquake will occur, but how severe it will...