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Earthquakes tend to exert greater force horizontally than vertically, usually twice as much or more. What seems to have been unusual in the Northridge quake -- which seismologists now said may have struck with two successive pulses -- was a superior vertical force. This caused some buildings that would have survived back-and-forth swaying to be subverted at their foundations. Accordingly, experts are looking at futuristic designs that will allow buildings to adapt to such tremulous variations. Japan, for example, has equipped buildings with computer-controlled systems that dynamically compensate for quake-induced motion; if an earthquake tips a building forward...
Ratzinger's behind-the-scenes interrogations and investigations exert a subtle chill on Catholic intellectual life. His actions imposed an 11-month "penitential silence" on Leonardo Boff, Brazil's exponent of liberation theology (who has since quit the priesthood); they also led to the removal of Charles Curran, a proponent of birth control, from teaching theology at the Catholic University of America. (He is now at Southern Methodist University.) In fact, Ratzinger sometimes seems to be turning his back -- literally -- on modern notions. The pre-Vatican II church, he said last April, was theologically correct in having priests "oriented toward...
...effects more than make up for them. Especially notable are the profusion of scenes on the servants' staircase, all of which, though seemingly minor, have momentous impact, as are the scenes in which Mr. Stevens is shown looking out the window. The lighting in these window scenes appears to exert a conceptual influence on the film, since the left half of Mr. Stevens' face is in shadow for the entire move until nearly the end, while the right half of everyone else's face is similarly obscured...
Markey also wants the SEC to exert stricter control over fund advertising, particularly when funds boast about their performance ranking. Investors face a barrage of claims that one fund or another ranks No. 1 in its field, no matter how narrowly that field is defined. To clear up such matters, Markey wants the SEC to require any fund claiming to be No. 1 to state how many funds it was comparing itself with and over what period of time...
Grants to other organizations including groups on both side of the abortion issue, as well as co-sponsorship of events with other organizations also allow RUS to exert its influence on campus, Wexler says...