Word: earths
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McGuire is a practitioner of what he calls the king of all extreme sports. BASE--an acronym for building, antenna, span (bridge) and earth (cliffs)--jumping has one of the sporting world's highest fatality rates: in its 18-year history, 46 participants have been killed. Yet the sport has never been more popular, with more than a thousand jumpers in the U.S. and more seeking to get into it every day. It is an activity without margin for error. If your chute malfunctions, don't bother reaching for a reserve--there isn't time. There are no second chances...
...judge this band by its book covers: on the inside of Rage's previous CD, Evil Empire, there was a collage of the dust jackets of leftist classics like Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth and George Jackson's Soledad Brother. It's hard to be a radical band in moderate times; it's hard to believe, in the age of the Backstreet Boys and a booming Dow, that music has meaning beyond SoundScan figures. Nonetheless, Rage's rock-hop music takes on racism and capitalism while also offering vocal support to Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Zapatista...
Hoffman, who taught a popular introductory earth science course at the Canadian university, is expected to teach a fall seminar with Professor of Biology Andrew H. Knoll. Hoffman will also be teaching a core course,Science A-37, "The Changing Surface of the Earth,"in spring...
Hoffman, who specializes in the earlygeological history of the earth, has researchedcontinental interactions in Canada and around theworld...
...Hoffman is a field geologist who has studiedthe geology of the distant past when continentswere starting to form," Burden Professor ofMeteorology Brian F. Farrell said. "We havewonderful people [in the department] who do thebiology of this period and now Paul Hoffman addsanother dimension of what the earth was doing atthis time...