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Ursula B. Marvin, Harvard lecturer on geology, has traveled to some pretty cold places to perform her research on meteorites...
While scientists estimate that approximately one half-ton of meteorites falls to Earth every year, most of this matter is not recoverable. Meteorites can be found with relative ease, however, on the snow and ice of Antarctica, leading geologists like Marvin to travel there in search of samples...
Collecting meteorite samples is difficult for many reasons, Marvin says. Each day, geologists estimate, only four or five meteors are large enough to survive the trip through Earth's atmosphere without burning up completely. The majority of these fall into the ocean...
...committee was criticized after hiring the daughter of an Olympic Games board member, the wife of City Council President Marvin Arrington, and the sister of Mayor Maynard Jackson...
...entourage by racing through seven countries in Europe, Asia and Africa in nine days in 1978. Lyndon Johnson went on a whimsical and wild four-day flight around the world in 1967. When he found out he had overspent his travel kitty, he sent his Bible-thumping aide Marvin Watson skulking around Washington seeking secret funds from other departments...