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...There's a lot of work to be done for the freshman heavies," said freshman Terran Senftleben, who rows in the fifth seat. "Hopefully, this loss is what we need to pull ourselves together for the rest of the season. It's no one's fault but our own, so we need to work hard and drill, drill, drill all the time...
...ocean crust, which he routinely discovers high and dry in the Sierra Nevada. "The whole vast assemblage of transported deep-ocean rock," writes McPhee, "now rests on California like a ship stuck in sand, listing thirty degrees to the west." Scientist and writer poke through the wreckage. They straddle fault lines and sift through road cuts while impatient drivers speed...
...amble and learn. Whenever their exchanges seem about to burst with an excess of ophiolites, abyssoliths and subduction zones, McPhee relieves the pressure with anecdotes and historical nuggets. Included is a tectonic dish of special interest to Californians. During the past 2,000 years, part of the San Andreas Fault near Los Angeles has been wrenched by 12 major earthquakes. On average they occurred 145 years apart. The most recent Big One hit in 1857. McPhee makes no predictions but figures his readers are smart enough to do their own arithmetic...
...perhaps this, too, is a fault of the script. It's difficult imagining anyone these days being able to relate to Mamet's "greed is good" characters, except perhaps for those few lost souls frozen in September...
...They turned the issue around," Sayhoun said. "They made it seem as though I were at fault because they claim I spread rumors or caused commotion. I still feel I had a strong basis...