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Fascinated by the implications of what were apparently man-made quakes, USGS scientists in 1969 set up their instruments at the Rangely oilfield in northwestern Colorado. There, Chevron was recovering oil from less productive wells by injecting water into them under great pressure. The recovery technique was setting off small quakes, the strongest near wells subjected to the greatest water pressure. If water was pumped out of the earth, the survey scientists wondered, would the quakes stop? In November 1972, they forced water into four of the Chevron wells. A series of minor quakes soon began, and did not stop...
Some universities hold short versions of alumni colleges. Northwestern, for example, offers one-day programs geared to specific subjects. Lectures include "Cultural Life in the Soviet Union" and "Where Have All Our Heroes Gone?" They have been so popular that Northwestern is thinking of starting a five-day college next year...
...Holden Roberto, it also began among the European-educated, but was originally connected quite closely to Bakongo nationalism and then to Pan-Africanism. The Bakongo, former residents of the Kingdom of the Kongo destroyed in the nineteenth century, are a populous nation divided among Zaire, Congo, and northwestern Angola, whose bitter experience with forced labor on the Portugese coffee plantations provoked them to a bloody revolt in 1961 and to energetic resistance ever since. While the FNLA's precursors sought to reconstitute the Kingdom of the Kongo, whose last king died in 1962, Roberto's contacts with African nationalists...
Nevertheless, criminals should be detained close to home, criminologists and convicts alike agree (see box). Small prisons in the community would help in part by making brief home furloughs, study and work-release programs and halfway houses more feasible. But, says Northwestern Law Professor John P. Heinz, "we shouldn't do community treatment because we know it's better. We don't. But we know it's not worse and it's cheaper and more humane and probably doesn't create as much resentment and bitterness...
...clubs that make owning a large Harvard clubhouse in town superfluous. Simpson explains that most alumni nowadays don't live in center city, but more often come home to the Main Line in fashionable southwest Philadelphia or Chestnut Hill, the silkstocking district that barely falls within the city's northwestern limits...