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...core, though, scientists had to understand the intervening mantle, through which all seismic information has to pass on its way to the surface. Explains Dziewonski: "If it's a faulty lens, you're going to have a wrong image." By 1984 the Harvard group had assembled the first detailed map of the mantle ever published. Their data consisted of the patterns of earthquake-generated pressure waves that passed through the solid earth, moving faster through cooler regions of the mantle and more slowly through warmer areas...
...city zoning map was last redrawn in the early 1960s, and many of the decisions made then are still reflected in the current zoning code, said Hugh Russell, a Cambridge architect and co-founder of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. In 1976, a rezoning project was launched and pursued for several years, but the city...
...fought a house-to-house battle against the Islamic defenders. When the siege ended seven hours later, the Israelis counted 40 Shi'ites and three of their own dead. Before heading back to Israel, eleven miles away, the invaders reduced Maydun to rubble, wiping the town off the map...
...idyllic climate, high- powered athletics, a healthy endowment and a commitment to academic excellence combine to make Palo Alto one of the hottest spots on the map of American higher education -- and a major headache for admissions officers at rival colleges. Cornell University President Frank Rhodes calls it "one of the world' s great institutions...
...they view the program's socializing function as more important than the academic instruction. At times, however, the two become virtually indistinguishable. Freed recalls one Monday when he and an inmate were reviewing the social studies segment of a GED exam. "He couldn't find America on the map. We put aside the book and just talked about the basic principles this country was founded on," Freed recalls. "These were new ideas to him, and finally he said, `Wow, this is really neat...