Word: mammothly
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...long time, researchers believed that nature could accomplish this feat in only one way: through the action of carbonic acid, which is produced when water reacts with carbon dioxide. The weak acid slowly dissolves bedrock. An underground stream forms, and an elaborate network of chambers like those found at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky takes shape. The unusual limestone terrains where this process occurs are known as karst, named for one such region in Slovenia that is famous for its caves. About 15% of the earth's terrain is karst. By studying and dating the old subterranean waterways, researchers can tell...
...only senior on the squad is mammoth bruiser, Allen Kummu, the team's top defensive scorer...
...more collegial style in which everyone from the shop floor to the executive suite participates in decision making. That is no longer a revolutionary idea among GM's rivals or industry at large. Ford developed its Taurus using nearly autonomous teams of workers, and Chrysler last year opened a mammoth $1 billion technical center that will bring together 6,000 technicians, designers and engineers to work on joint car projects. Perhaps not surprisingly, Ford and Chrysler have recently reclaimed market share from Japanese automakers, while GM keeps losing ground...
Gates, 36, is the founder and owned of Microsoft Corp., a mammoth software firm based in Redmond, Wash. He dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to found Microsoft, now the world's largest microcomputer software company...
...study the planet Jupiter, the Galileo probe passed within 5,300 km (3,300 miles) of the asteroid 951 Gaspra, and scientists instructed it to take the first closeup ever of such an object. The irregular shape suggests that Gaspra was chipped from a larger body in a mammoth collision. (See related story on page...