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...Crimson editorial board welcomes commentary pieces from faculty members or representatives of student organizations. If you wish to submit such a piece, please call or send it to the Editorial Chair. Commentary pieces should be approximately three to four double-spaced pages in length. Signed pieces, letters and commentaries appearing on the editorial page do not necessarily reflect the views of The Crimson editorial board...
...think you should move it a little more away from the power line," the Mississippi Power & Light man warns Malone as he checks the house's positioning. Towner calls Anderson over to the front. "Do you like it here?" he asks. She looks up and down the building's length and along its sides and then responds with a simple...
...scale!" he marveled. Within minutes the scientists on duty had pinpointed the epicenter of the quake in the rugged Santa Cruz mountains some 50 miles away. The spot was no surprise: it lay on the San Andreas fault, a great gash in the earth that extends nearly the length of the California coast. Even before the quake, the Santa Cruz area had been identified as a prime candidate for a big tremor. "We still can't predict when an earthquake will occur," says geologist Clarence Allen of the California Institute of Technology, "but at least we can say where...
...size of an earthquake is determined partly by the length of the fault segment that slips. In addition, large earthquakes tend to be spaced further apart than small ones, since it takes a much longer time to accumulate sufficient stress. While scientists cannot say exactly where or when the next Big One will hit, they are not without hunches. Southern California, which has not had a Big One since 1857, is every seismologist's first...
...heads of state were seated around a long table stretching the length of a room for their two working sessions; Bush and Ortega were seven seats apart. Also on the schedule was a luncheon and black-tie dinner at the downtown National Theater...