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About 150 million years ago, during the breakup of a supercontinent that geologists call Gondwanaland,* South America and Africa began to drift apart, creating the Atlantic Ocean. There is convincing evidence for the once controversial theory that the two continents were once joined; geological features and fossil remains on opposite sides of the ocean show a remarkable match, and the shelves, or underwater plateaus, extending from each of the continents into the Atlantic form a near perfect fit, like adjacent pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. One piece of the puzzle, however, seemed to be missing. There was a deep indentation...
...circle of locals sitting in a bar is hardly an unimpeachable source, but broader opinion at times supports the Sasquatch story. Some anthropologists and zoologists, too, believe a Bigfoot or Abominable Snowman may exist in the coastal mountains. Eyewitness reports and folk-legends are supported by footprints and fossil evidence as well as by less-convincing alleged hair and alleged feces. Bigfoot is big business as well. Magazines such as True and Argosy run frequent articles; Willow Creek, Calif., holds a Bigfoot carnival every year during which the townspeople put Bigfoot footprints on the sidewalk and sell Bigfoot ashtrays...
Possible alternatives to the present oil crisis lie in learning to harness other fossil fuels like coal or such non-fossil fuels as fission, fusion, hydrogen, or solar energy, Meyer said. He added that it is in these directions of research and study that the United States should be moving with a concentrated effort...
Britain's 280,000 mine workers earn between $57 and $83 a week for the time they spend in the bowels of the British earth, working to supply the nation with critical fossil fuel. They are not paid for the time it takes them to travel up and down the mine shafts. The miners are demanding an average $20-a-week pay hike, but Heath is willing to give them no more than a $6-a-week raise...
...woman holding each other, sort of frozen from the ashes that came down when the volcano erupted and buried them. They wanted to die together. That's what life is all about-being able to hold on." Thus a bathetic Elizabeth Taylor described her favorite Pompeii fossil in the January issue of McCall's. Erstwhile Separated Husband No. 5 Richard Burton showed his own dedication to holding on by jetting into Los Angeles, draping a new $20,000 diamond necklace around Liz, and sweeping her off for a not altogether unexpected reconciliation in southern Italy...