Word: geophysicist
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...SCIENTISTS FORECAST MAJOR EARTH-quakes months before they happen? Most experts are dubious, but that hasn't stopped Vladimir Keilis-Borok from trying. And for a while the mathematical geophysicist, 83, seemed to be on a roll. In September 2003, within a time frame Keilis-Borok and colleagues had stipulated in advance, a pair of powerful earthquakes struck northern Japan, setting off tsunamis and injuring several hundred people. In December, another anticipated temblor rattled central California, killing two and damaging dozens of buildings. Then, in July, yet another quake, near the border of Austria, Italy and Slovenia, came close...
...gathering solar wind on five 4-in. hexagonal collector plates--each coated with silicon, gold, sapphire or diamond--and then stowing them back inside the body of the spacecraft. What's there could be a cosmic treasure: "A billion billion molecules for us to study," says Don Burnett, a geophysicist at the California Institute of Technology and project scientist for the Genesis mission. But first the $260 million ship must make it home in one piece...
...least one other cache of explosives in the city. Sources say a suspected JI agent arrested in April confessed that he had delivered 660 lbs. to two senior JI operatives. Early analysis of the composition and design of the Marriott bomb suggests one of those operatives, Malaysian geophysicist and alleged JI bombmeister Azahari Husin, played a key role in the attack. "The momentum is still going for JI," says Mick Keelty, head of the Australian Federal Police, which has joined the investigation of the Marriott bombing. "It's almost as though we've woken a sleeping giant." --By Simon Elegant...
...believe both were instrumental in the Bali plot, with Azahari responsible for designing and assembling the main bomb. The pair managed to evade police and are still at large. Early analysis of the composition and means of detonation of the Marriott bomb indicate the handiwork of Azahari, a Malaysian geophysicist who literally wrote the book on bombing for JI, having penned a manual discovered by police last year. "He's an expert at surveying locations and designing bombs for specific targets," says a source close to the investigation...
...14ers" (14,000-ft. peaks)?Erik viewed Everest as insurmountable until he ran into Scaturro at a sportswear trade show in Salt Lake City, Utah. Scaturro, who had already summited Everest, had heard of the blind climber, and when they met the two struck an easy rapport. A geophysicist who often put together energy-company expeditions to remote areas in search of petroleum, Scaturro began wondering if he could put together a team that could help Erik get to the summit of Everest...