Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patrick Hurley of M.I.T., who will be working with radioactive isotopes in determining the age of the samples, explained that the dating process was important to the controversy surrounding the origin of the moon. The results could clarify whether the moon was a meteorite pulled into orbit by the earth's gravity or whether it was once part of the earth...
...samples, and lumps of rock, will be collected by the astronauts and stored in air-tight boxes. Wood pointed out that this procedure insures that "a sample of the lunar vacuum will be preserved to guard against contamination by the earth's atmosphere...
...year, most of it pumped through wells from a water table that is fed only 3.72 in. of rain every twelve months. As a result, depletion of the water table over the past 20 years has caused the whole town to sink 3 ft. At that rate the earth may swallow up the city of Las Vegas-in a million years...
...parts per billion in plankton, says Biologist Charles F. Wurster Jr., chief scientific adviser to a New York conservationist group called the Environmental Defense Fund, can substantially hinder the photosynthesis process. On a larger scale, such interference could have a devastating effect, since phytoplankton produces 70% of the earth's oxygen...
...agree. Could any but a sectarian mind believe that a loving, merciful, just God would harden Pharoah's heart (Exodus 11:10) so that he would not let the Israelites go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 11:29)? Or kill everybody on the earth except the few people in Noah's Ark? Surely the slaughtered children were not to blame! Your sectarianism may be less crude than at the Rhode Island College, but sectarianism is basically the same everywhere--a blind and blinding belief which will not permit the sectarian to make free...