Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...veil is coming off. Last week NASA's Magellan spacecraft transmitted the most detailed pictures ever made of Earth's next-door neighbor. The radar images revealed a tortured topography with fault-like cracks in surprisingly regular patterns, craters as big as greater Los Angeles and volcanic mountains flanked by congealed rivers of lava at least 320 km (200 miles) long. Says James Head III, a Brown University geologist and member of the Magellan imaging team: "It's a revolutionary new view of Venus...
...disaster, though, that shrouded the series. Both the A's and the Giants donated part of the take to earthquake relief, but the charity seemed inadequate. To many the very phrase Play ball! sounded irresponsible. And how do you celebrate in a Bay Area sapped by mourning? Through no fault of the winners, their victory was tainted. The A's owed their fans one season, beginning to end, of efficient ecstasy. That was the vow, and in 1990 they are a long way toward achieving...
...course, the despicable incident earlier this month was not Olson's fault. She was in the locker room because the Patriots were in the locker room, and her job requires her to talk to players after games. To bar Olson from the locker room while allowing her male counterparts access would constitute unconscionable and--according to the Supreme Court--illegal gender discrimination...
...Fault Five...
Dawn, who denies the charges, is one of the unlucky people who have found themselves hounded by an angry spouse in a state where old-fashioned sex statutes are still on the books. In a quirky twist to the contemporary no- fault-divorce saga, venerable adultery laws are occasionally being invoked by quarreling marital partners, sometimes for vindictive purposes and sometimes to gain leverage in lengthy settlement negotiations. In the weeks after Dawn's arrest, two other Connecticut women and one man were also charged with adultery. They face the same possible misdemeanor punishment: up to a year in jail...