Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the two Boston College students who are helping to organize the event, Robert W. Vanech and Rafael de la Cierra, the dance is a way for Boston students to provide financial support for the democratic movement in China...
...specific section of the San Andreas fault will snap in one year's time or in a hundred, but they are working on it. Seismic silence is one clue. Soundings taken along the San Andreas over the past 15 years showed that the small earthquakes that are a daily event along other parts of the system were not occurring in the Santa Cruz mountains. Scientists argued over the significance of this blank spot in the data. Then a year ago, activity ominously resumed, and last August brought a damaging earthquake. Such an increase in activity, notes Columbia's Scholz, seems...
...actually uttered those words, looking for sermons in the shaking stones. In any case, Muir was alone in the moonlit mountains, and so he could indulge his charming 19th century awe. When the earth turned in its sleep, it crushed much landscape in the folds, but somehow the event could keep its innocence. When nature does something awful, after all, is it part of the electrical display of God the Father, or merely geography rearranging itself, obeying an impersonal agenda...
...terror lies first in the surprise. An earthquake is hidden from one moment to the next, as the future is hidden, as God is hidden. The event does not announce itself as most other disasters do, as a hurricane does, or a flood, or even an erupting volcano, which is after all hard to miss as dangerous geography. A plague too arrives more slowly. That is no consolation, but at least the mind and nerves are prepared. The event proceeds in a logical continuum of developing bad news...
Ever since a debate over whether to accept the credentials of Israel's U.N. delegation became an annual event in 1982, the Soviet Union has sided with Arab countries and voted against seating representatives of the Jewish state. Last week Moscow abstained on the matter. It was the latest sign of a warming trend between the two countries, which have had no diplomatic relations since the Six-Day War in 1967. Better weather seems to be on the way. Shimon Peres, Israel's Finance Minister and leader of the Labor Party, has tentatively accepted a Soviet invitation to visit Moscow...