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...Digital Seismograph is so precise that the unit at Harvard's Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass., can detect "marine microseisms"--the "motion of the ground generated by wave action against the entire coastline," Steim says. Units in other locations have also detected volcanic explosions, the sonic wave generated by landing space shuttles and even trucks...
...Morgan and others are not looking for a well-carved piece of furniture," he said. "They're looking for a solid piece of oak...
...section of Seven Promises titled "Reclaiming Your Manhood," Tony Evans, a senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, puts it this way: "Sit down with your wife and say something like this: 'Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family, and I forced you to take my place. Now, I must reclaim that role'...I'm not suggesting you ask for your role back, I'm urging you take it back...there can be no compromise here. If you're going to lead, you must lead...
...field much the way his forebears did three centuries ago--tugging at the yoke of a Belgian draft mule. The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as he hauls another stack of feed corn to his son-in-law's silo. Like their ancestors, Jacob and his kin light their farmhouses with gas lanterns and drive carriage horses--never automobiles--back and forth to town...
...blustery November afternoon in 1990, 12 Amish carpenters and 55 Amish and Mennonite farmers raised the Clinic for Special Children. Wielding sledgehammers, Douglas fir timbers and stout oak pegs, they framed the post-and-beam building by the end of the day. "Now when Jake's mules turn at the end of a row," says Morton, "he often looks to see if I am at my laboratory window. He has grandchildren with the disease I'm studying, and we both hope they can live to work in the field...