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SAFOD's subterranean spyglass is aimed at a geophysical sweet spot on the San Andreas that is a miniature earthquake machine. The size of a football field, it rattles with microearthquakes--in this case, earthquakes of magnitude 2--with surprising regularity. Right next door, within a 2-mile radius, are...
Inside the Beltway, Rumsfeld's spying efforts--the Pentagon last week publicly acknowledged that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is sending out special clandestine teams--seem to critics like a power grab. But the Defense Department says its agents can deliver intelligence on military targets that's finer-grained than...
While the Pompeii layer preserved natural body postures, it was too coarse to take imprints of soft tissues and delicate structures, so there's no way of knowing whether Mei long had feathers. But other strata of the Liaoning fossil beds are much finer grained. That's where paleontologists found...
DIED. GEORGE WOODBRIDGE, 73, longtime illustrator for Mad magazine; of emphysema; on Staten Island, N.Y. Woodbridge, who had a second career as an illustrator of historically accurate military-history works, created witty, fine-grained caricatures of everyone from movie stars to anonymous, put-upon suburbanites for the humor magazine for...
Over time Currin has gone through a succession of styles, from the deliberately slapdash to an ever more fine-grained illusionism, the kind that reports to the eye in detail about the clammy surface of a raw turkey or the plush of a fur jacket. But at every turn, his...