Word: mendocino
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...assumed that it will do so again. But just where and when will the next big break occur? Here scientists are beginning to make headway. Geophysicist Wayne Thatcher of the USGS notes that the 1906 quake ruptured a 260-mile-long section of the San Andreas, extending from Cape Mendocino to San Juan Bautista. But the plate movement along the southern portion of the rupture was minor compared with the far greater movement in the north. To Christopher Scholz of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, this meant one thing: the southern section of the quake zone had retained...
LEAST-NEEDED NEW PRODUCT Take mineral water from Mendocino, Calif., turn it over to chef John Ash, and be prepared for Truffle Water, a sourish-smelling carbonated drink that suggests spoiled milk, sulfur and stale beer. The question is not how he thought...
Until last year, Kei Murrell, 13, like most other girls at Mendocino (Calif.) Middle School, considered the school's computer room to be a male preserve, a place where boys talked in programming jargon and played war games. While Kei and her friends were free to use the machines, they stayed away -- largely because, as she says, "there aren't very many girls my age who are into blowing things up on a computer." Kei is still bored by computer shoot-'em- ups, but she and the other girls now feel right at home at the computers. Perched in front...
...friends first ventured into the computer room when the introductory computer course became mandatory at Mendocino. They soon learned that in addition to zapping alien invaders, the machines could be used for composing music, creating posters and preparing letter-perfect homework. They were also prodded and then inspired by Kathi Griffen, their computer teacher, who made a special effort to encourage them. Says Griffen: "I'm trying to open the doors for girls so they can enjoy computers...
Rique and Natasha Kuru had no idea when they purchased their 208-acre ranch in Northern California's Mendocino County last year that they were picking a choice parcel for the Federal Government. But the Drug Enforcement Administration agents who caught them tending an estimated $52,000 worth of homegrown marijuana last October were armed with more than a search warrant. Under the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which authorizes lawmen to confiscate property used to commit crime, the Kurus faced not only prison but loss of their land...