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...felt affirmed a day later when Gore backed congressional bills to give Elian, his father and other Cuban family members instant U.S. residency, and argued for moving the case into state family court in Miami. Echoing George W. Bush, who also insists Elian should stay, Gore said, "The real fault in this case lies with the oppressive regime of Fidel Castro...
...race, and Epic Steam, a stallion badly in need of a gelding. There is Buddy Crawford, a sleazy trainer who cares more about winning than about the horses (even after he finds Jesus), and Farley Jones, who adheres to The Tibetan Book of Thoroughbred Training ("Do not see any fault anywhere...Do not hanker after signs of progress"). There are the rich owners, desperate to get their playthings to the Breeders' Cup, and the struggling breeders, the jockeys and the horse masseurs. And above all, there are the races, riveting set pieces that Smiley creates with a passion that cannot...
...times as long as the earth has existed, and 5 million times as long as Homo sapiens has lasted so far. If we're not around to shoot off fireworks on New Year's Eve of the year 100,000,000,000, it won't be the universe's fault...
...molten rock that has the consistency of Silly Putty. These tectonic plates are constantly jostling each other, like rafts crowded into a small pond, and it's along the boundaries where they meet that most quakes are born. The two plates that form California's infamous San Andreas Fault, the Pacific and the North American plates, are the largest on Earth. And they're moving inexorably in opposite directions...
...where would you put them? The great San Francisco quake of 1906 cracked the earth across 350 miles, about one-third of the northern San Andreas Fault. To make things worse, California is riddled with faults that are smaller and not so well mapped as the San Andreas. For example, the 1994 Northridge quake, which registered a magnitude of 6.6 and caused $20 billion in damage, occurred on a fault no one knew was there...