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...roused the awesome force slumbering beneath Indonesia. "I'm 98% certain this was due to drilling," he says. Davies, who visited Porong last year and has studied the eruption extensively, thinks he knows how that happened. On May 27, Lapindo's Banjar Panji-1 well was operating in a field not far from Ahmad Mudakir's village. The well's target was a shelf of limestone some 9,800 ft. (3,000 m) below the surface. Lapindo's drillers were searching for natural-gas deposits, but the well was exploratory. No one knew for certain the subterranean conditions beneath Porong...
...project is being conducted in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, the Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium, and the Missouri Botanical Garden...
Since November, the U.S. has been providing military intelligence to the Turkish army, helping target air strikes. Now that the Turkish army is engaged on the field in north Iraq, it may not want to pull back quickly. Ankara is deeply suspicious of the regional Kurdish government there, which it accuses of supporting the PKK. It is also concerned that the largely autonomous region may seek independence, in turn fomenting similar demands by its own restive Kurdish population. In response to Gates' remarks, the Turkish military did not set a timetable for withdrawal. "Short-term is a relative notion. Sometimes...
...This past fall,” she says, PBHA “did a Day of Service, a university-wide project day with a lot of different projects, including a field day at Mission Hill and river cleanup. When a graduate student council member approached PBHA, they wanted to do those one-day, feel-good, paint-a-mural type projects, and we got back to them and said, ‘That’s not really what we’re about...
...feel it? Spring is just around the corner. Yes, the weather is still cold and yes, snow is still in the forecast, but this weekend the Harvard Track and Field squad will travel to Ithaca, N.Y. to compete in the Indoor Heptagonal Championships, which caps off the 2008 winter season. “When we’re in the doldrums of December, when the spring season seems far off, we always look forward to Heps,” men’s captain Brian Holmquest said. “It brews in us.” Second only...