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...effort seems bound to pay off. Last September, the Parkfield zone gave rise to a magnitude-6 earthquake whose throaty rumblings were recorded by a rich array of seismometers and other instruments, including several nestled inside a mile-deep pilot hole the SAFOD team reamed out just two years earlier. Puzzling to many scientists was the seeming absence of precursory activity, save for subtle signs that strain may have increased ever so slightly the day before...
According to the e-mail trail, Reed and Norquist contacted Abramoff separately in 1999 to say they wanted to do business. Norquist complained about a "$75K hole in my budget from last year." Reed, who left the Christian Coalition in 1997 to found a political consultancy, said he was counting on Abramoff "to help me with some contacts." As it turned out, Abramoff needed them too. In 2000 Alabama was considering establishing a state lottery, which would compete with the casino business of the Mississippi band of Choctaws, an Abramoff client. Norquist and Reed were well positioned to help...
...convince Québécois smokers of that. Capital and infrastructure expenditures - for venues such as the Olympic Village and the stadium - spiraled so out of control that the city had to impose a $2 billion tax on tobacco to get out of its financial hole. To this day, 17? out of every pack of cigarettes purchased in Quebec goes to pay for Olympic construction...
...might come apart at the seams are allegations that Arroyo rigged last year's presidential election and persistent rumors of coup plots. The President, who has a Ph.D. in economics, knows she needs faster economic growth and more foreign investment to help dig the country out of its fiscal hole, but what sane foreign investor would risk money in a country that seems perennially on the verge of political and financial chaos...
...Impactor Designed to collide and die, it carries few instruments but a lot of weight 820 lbs. in all. More than 200 of those pounds make up a copper cratering mass, which increases the size of the hole the impactor digs...