Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday most of San Francisco had returned to near normal. The BART mass-transit system, which suffered only minor damage to its tunnel beneath the Bay, resumed normal service, and airports in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose were operating again. The surest sign that the crisis was over: baseball commissioner Fay Vincent announced that the World Series would resume Tuesday night if local officials decide it could be done safely...
Many well-built structures survived with minor damage, but 90% of all buildings were of frame construction. Wooden dwellings in the congested area south of Market (where most of the dead would be found) were reduced to heaps of kindling, which were quickly set afire by overturned stoves. Scattered blazes began to burn at once. Yet the city's troubles had hardly begun...
...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 an enormous amount of stress. "It was," he says, "ready to go." And last week...
...this ending is only a minor flaw in an otherwise perfectly polished piece of work. Duke's energy in switching from role to role and from adventure to adventure remains high in spite of his numerous costume changes. And the foibles of these everyday-type characters keeps the laughter flowing steadily...
...celebrates the 150th year of the dagguerotype. The MFA is presenting works from the 1930s and 1940s, and the Fogg exhibit presents those photographs from 1940 to the present. Photographers on view at the Fogg through Christmas vacation include Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Duane Michals, Aaron Siskind Weegee and Minor White...