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...years it had stood as the symbol of the division of Europe and the world, of Communist suppression, of the xenophobia of a regime that had to lock its people in lest they be tempted by another, freer life -- the Berlin Wall, that hideous, 28-mile-long scar through the heart of a once proud European capital, not to mention the soul of a people. And then -- poof! -- it was gone. Not physically, at least yet, but gone as an effective barrier between East and West, opened in one unthinkable, stunning stroke to people it had kept apart for more...
...amid the euphoria, there were reminders of the political changes and uncertainty still sweeping through East Germany, which began carving passages through the 29-mile-long Berlin Wall on Friday...
...year- old Wall that ran like a jagged scar through Berlin: "Ich bin ein Berliner." His message was more than a metaphoric statement of solidarity with the people of that divided city. It was an appeal to the Wall's Communist architects to tear down the 26-mile-long concrete monstrosity. Today the Wall continues to pierce the hearts of Berliners every bit as effectively as its pipes, barbed wires and other sharp obstacles once sliced the bodies of desperate refugees. But for the first time since Kennedy's appeal, it seems possible that the Wall might come tumbling down...
This quake did not begin to exhaust the pent-up energy in the 800-mile-long San Andreas system. In a list of seismic danger zones compiled by an expert panel last year, the section around Santa Cruz ranked only sixth. The area believed most likely to have a devastating quake...
...fault once generated a big earthquake, it can be 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...