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Some of the turmoil it gets into is the fault of mistaken reporters, heavy-handed editors or sloppy proofers. And some of it is the fault of students and administrators who don't agree with a given story because they're too biased about the issue, or because the opposing side was given any play at all. "Crimeds," especially reporters, put up with a lot of rudeness, abruptness, hostility and interference from the people they attempt to cover...
...year-old battle between small property owners who said the system was abused, and low-income tenants who feared the city's gentrification, is over. Finding themselves without a rallying cause after 25 years of battle, Cambridge politicians are scrambling to find a new ideological fault line that will define the next generation of city politics...
...intervals between eruptions along the big faults are measured in centuries, whereas the secondary cracks ``may only slip in a big earthquake every 1,000 to 5,000 years,'' notes seismologist Wayne Thatcher of the U.S. Geological Survey. ``Yet there are so damn many of them that they pose a seismic hazard equivalent to the Big One we've all been so focused on.'' Seismologists also point out that quakes could endanger places where citizens have rarely thought about them: Seattle, for instance, which sits close to a fault under the Pacific that seismologists now conclude has triggered major quakes...
...Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross Stein, Geological Survey physicist in Menlo Park, California: ``Kobe is almost a dress rehearsal for an earthquake on the Hayward fault in the East...
...fully capable of producing tremors up to a magnitude of 7.5, or about 15 times the energy of the 20-second Northridge quake. What would happen if that pulse roared for 40 or 50 seconds--higher-magnitude quakes typically shudder for 60 seconds or more--through the Elysian Park fault under downtown Los Angeles? ``The only way to get a full picture of how buildings react in an earthquake is to have one,'' says Thomas Heaton, a Geological Survey seismologist. But computer simulations undertaken by Heaton and collaborators show that steel- frame high-rises could have their feet kicked...