Word: methods
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Whitcomb is using an experimental earthquake-prediction technique developed in the Soviet Union and successfully employed by Columbia University scientists to predict a small temblor in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. The method involves measurement of variations in the velocities of sound waves traveling through subsurface rock. While no one, from scientists to civil defense authorities, is dismissing Whitcomb's prediction, his data will come under intense scrutiny by experts of the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council within the next two weeks...
...action was so common and in the eyes of many so legitimate as to constitute, by 1776, a conventional method of political action. The Boston Tea Party was hardly an isolated case: the mob also rioted to keep food from being shipped out of the colony during lean times, to prevent men from being impressed into the British navy, and to halt the collection of unpopular customs duties. The men who made up these mobs were, as likely as not, also the men to be found sitting in New England town meetings and on local juries...
Other reasons are less obvious but perhaps more important. As University of Pennsylvania Historian Michael Zuckerman points out, the colonies before and during the Revolution were made up of isolated communities that used a common method to achieve political consensus, mobilize for collective action, and control crime: the public manipulation of reputations and the creation of a powerful nexus of human interdependence. Majority opinion not only dominated political decision making, but controlled most public and much private conduct as well. This is why there was such frequent resort to humiliation as a penalty. Stocks, pillory, and tar and feathers were...
...Medical information was discussed only within the context of personal experience. "We checked everything the experts said against what we felt," Sanford, now a student at the Divinity School, says. Now that the women's movement has gotten going, maybe that isn't so striking. Back then, though, our method of teaching was really striking...
Last week the Mather Memo, the House newspaper, charged that Collier's method of determining the "pain factor" (the relative pain caused by crowding in each House) as the amount of floor space per capita illustrates that he is "totally divorced from the reality of the housing situation." The Memo editors were not swayed by Collier's explanations, calling them "the reasoning of a functional moron...