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Initially, seismologists thought that the Palmdale uplifting was the result of tiny fissuring that occurs in rocks when they are subjected to great stress, expanding the volume of the rock. But the bulge appears much too large to be explained only by this effect, which is known as dilatancy and...
A tempest in a c-cup? Definitely, said White House Aide Hamilton Jordan. Nothing more, agreed Egyptian officials. Yet the story filled innumerable inches in major U.S. newspapers. As reported by Washington Post tattletale Sally Quinn in an article on the social scene in the capital, it all happened at...
depoliticized text of Prisoner which has been reproduced in Genius and Lust makes an even poorer showing against the body of elastic and informative, if not exceptionally original, criticism presented.) You suspect that although the critic recognizes the injury in sexism, he can't bring himself to take it too...
As for land reform, López Portillo is unlikely to reverse expropriations already carried out. But he will move slowly on new ones. "The land is not made of rubber," he has told advisers. "It is not elastic." There will simply not be enough arable soil for everyone. Larger...
Allan Robertson (1915-59), the chief maker and supplier of feathery balls, stitched a spherical bag out of cowhide which was then stuffed with boiled feathers. Enough feathers to fill a top hat were packed into each ball. The unreliable and easily rotted feathery endured until around 1848 when the...