Word: earth
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...head. His wife was motionless and bleeding from the temple. A mound of burning metal blocked a path to the gaping fuselage. Twice Naik tried to carry his wife over the barrier. Once an explosion blew him back. A second hurled him onto the wing. He rolled off to earth, but his wife was thrown backward. Someone yelled at him: "Get out of there! It's going to blow!" Watching the flames in frustration, he saw a white shirt under the plane, rushed toward it?and pulled his wife away...
Curious Fatalism. Wherever he turns these days, Giscard seems to encounter hostility. True, he can count on the loyalty of Barre, whose down-to-earth, schoolmaster image has won a surprising amount of popularity. But Barre is essentially a technocrat without any political base. Now Barre has been given an unenviable mission in attempting to win back the voters lost to the left, partly because of the government's economic policies. The pattern of the municipal elections showed that the leftist opposition gained most in those regions where unemployment was high. As inflation gains once more among France...
...clearer, say, in a suggestion that Australia be handed back to the aborigines. Even the angry blacks of South Africa are not openly challenging the right of possession held by descendants of the whites who invaded that land long ago. Surely one of the oldest realities of the earth is that the dispersal of all population has been by conquest, dispossession and conquest again. And if history could be unwritten, the world simply would not be the world. England would be bereft of the English and France of the French...
These words, spoken last week by Frank Press, echo statements that he has been making for nearly two decades as an adviser to Government agencies on subjects ranging from space missions to earthquake prediction. As head of the department of earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Press has always had some clout in Washington. But not as much as he will soon have with the Carter Administration. The President has named Press, 52, his science adviser, and by doing so revealed the depth of his own commitment to arms control; Press, in addition to his other...
...native of Brooklyn and a graduate of New York's City College, the precise, soft-spoken Press did his doctoral studies at Columbia University and worked with Geophysicist Maurice Ewing to develop a highly sensitive seismograph that can detect even the slightest earth tremors. The device, known as the Press-Ewing seismograph, is now one of the standard tools of earth scientists around the world. Press was also one of the organizers of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), which began, in 1957, as a multidisciplined, worldwide scientific investigation of the earth and the space around it. IGY eventually grew...