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Last year, when a group of journalists and historians offered a list of the 100 biggest news stories of the 20th century, the Beatles' appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show was ranked 58th. Completion of Hoover Dam didn't make the cut. You sort of expect this from celebrity-infatuated mass culture: when it comes to fundamental achievements that make contemporary civilization work, a stifled yawn. Water, dams, aqueducts, irrigation, hydroelectricity--how borrrrrrring! Really? Los Angeles, world headquarters of celebrity culture, has measured as little as 5 in. (13 cm) of rainfall in a year. And despite occasional monsoons, Southern...
...happens, scientists have stumbled on several ways to do just that. When the lake behind the Hoover Dam was first filled, it triggered quakes in a region that had been seismically inactive. Nuclear-weapons designers found that they were also generating quakes at the Nevada Test Site when they detonated underground blasts. But the real breakthrough came when the U.S. Army began pumping liquid wastes into the ground near Denver at their Rocky Mountain Arsenal and discovered that the pumping was setting off tiny artificial quakes. Scientists studying the phenomenon found that the fluids were lubricating the fault boundaries, allowing...
...Herbert Hoover often worked in the nude. His advisors learned to knock before entering the Oval Office...
...According to Thernstrom, Harvard undergraduates supported Republican candidates Herbert C. Hoover and Alfred M. Landon over Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 in the 1932 and 1936 presidential elections, respectively, even though Roosevelt, the architect of the New Deal and a former Crimson president, enjoyed widespread support from the U.S. population at large...
...first to appear twice was Mrs. Herbert ("Lou") Hoover, and Queen Mary of England was the first to be pictured three times, but PRINCESS DIANA tops the list of women on TIME's cover, having turned up within the red border a grand total of nine times. Runner-up is a tie, with eight covers apiece for both the VIRGIN MARY and HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (we aren't counting the tiny insert pics of Hillary on two Zippergate covers). But the race is not over. As Campaign 2000 bears down upon us, we would have...