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...principle, this cycle of stress accumulation and release should be fairly regular, but scientists are finding it is not. Paleoseismologist Tina Niemi of the University of Missouri--Kansas City, for example, is studying a stream-fed marsh near Tomales Bay that has preserved evidence of past earthquakes in its sedimentary layers. By trenching through those layers to a depth of 15 ft., she has uncovered buried fissures formed by recurrent earth movements along the San Andreas. On average, that pattern repeats every 250 or so years, but "average" in this case covers a wide range. In one instance there appears...
...victory over Northeastern in the consolation game of the Beanpot.As the Saints quickly learned, the wide margin only made Harvard more likely to score again.“This is very much indicative of many, many Harvard teams over the years,” said St. Lawrence coach Joe Marsh after Sunday’s game. “When they get a few up, they seem to relax—not relax in terms of their effort, but they get looser and more dangerous.”OFFENSIVE “D”In addition to playing well...
...know is that for all our mistakes, free elections have been held in a largely Arab Muslim country. We know that the Kurds in the north enjoy freedoms and a nascent civil society that is a huge improvement on the past. We know that the culture of the marsh Arabs in the south is beginning to revive. We know that we have given Iraqis a chance to decide their own destiny through politics rather than murder and that civil war is still avoidable. We know that the enemies of democracy in Iraq will not stop there if they succeed...
...fighting about. ""The central point is not what hour of what day the congregation gathers corporately to celebrate the birth of Christ," says Willow Creek's Hybels, "but rather that in our hearts and lives we allow the coming of Christ to transform us." On his blog, Louie Marsh, pastor of a small church in rural Arizona, quoted the Apostle Paul from the Book of Romans, who wrote, "Who are you to judge someone else's servant?" "I do know [that] this isn't something we should be fighting about," Marsh blogged. "Let's just focus on serving...
...rarely talked about his plans for the future, except to discuss the different lessons and values he hoped to teach his children. On the Friday night of Lawrence’s death, friends and family members held a candlelit vigil outside the chapel in Boston University’s Marsh Plaza, placing pictures of Lawrence and his girlfriend Teberian on the plaza’s “Free at Last” statue. For more than an hour, they stood in silence to honor and remember a man who had been their friend, brother, and son. Boston University...