Word: flows
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...Fundy are the highest in the world, rising and falling more than 50 feet every day. For the two fossil hunters clambering over the bordering cliffs near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, last summer, that presented a special problem. Timing their forays with the mighty ebb and flow, they often found themselves on isolated cliff faces, cut off by the surging water...
...sediments and sandstone visible on the present-day cliffs. "When it rained," says Olsen, "chunks of rock and mud raced down the mountainsides and buried large swaths of ground." Many of the now fossilized animals escaped the slides, only to be trapped in cracks that opened as the mud flow dried and shrank. Olsen believes the animals entered the fissures in search of water or were dragged there by carnivores occupying the cavelike spaces as dens...
...were the billions of signals sent between the doomed shuttle and NASA computers at Cape Canaveral's Launch Control and in Houston's Mission Control before and during the 73 seconds of its flight. The shuttle contained an extraordinary array of monitoring devices (sensors to detect pressures, temperatures, fuel flow, and so on), which reported their findings thousands of times a second. This flow of information, or telemetry, was so constant and so enormous that a lot of it was not sent either to the shuttle cockpit or to the consoles at Launch and Mission controls. Instead, the data that...
South African police and military on Jan. 1 began conducting security searches at the border that severely restricted the daily flow of supplies into the enclave nation. But relations between the countries had been tense for some time. Jonathan had irritated the fiercely anti-Communist South African government by inviting the Soviet Union and other Marxist countries to open embassies in Maseru. He had also given refuge to guerrillas from the outlawed African National Congress, which seeks to overthrow South Africa's white-minority government...
...with Insurgent Leader Yoweri Museveni in neighboring Kenya and signed a peace accord that called for Museveni to become deputy chairman of a restructured military council. But the truce soon fell apart. In Uganda, generals may come and go, but the blood always seems to flow...