Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amin accused "British crooks" of plotting to assassinate him, and put under surveillance all 7,000 Britons living in Uganda. He also charged that Britain was planning a "land, sea and air invasion" of Uganda. When it was pointed out that landlocked Uganda is miles from any ocean, Amin belittled British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home for betraying his "ignorance about Africa" by plotting a naval attack in the first place. He greeted the newly arrived Canadian High Commissioner in Kampala, William Olivier, by asking him when Canada intended to throw out the Queen and install a Canadian...
Spitz was born in Modesto, Calif., but moved with his parents to Honolulu when he was two. As his mother Lenore recalls: "We went to Waikiki every day. You should have seen that little boy dash into the ocean. He'd run like he was trying to commit suicide." That early drive may well have been imparted by his father, who admits to being a "forceful individual." His pragmatic creed, repeated often to Mark: "Swimming isn't everything. Winning...
...dating technique was conceived by Chemist Jeffrey Bada of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography while he was trying to date some fossil-laden sediment from the ocean floor. The standard method for determining the age of fossils is the so-called carbon 14 clock, which is based on the ratio of ordinary carbon atoms to atoms of the radioactive isotope carbon 14 found in the specimen. The carbon 14 atoms decay at a known rate and are not replenished after the creature dies; thus the proportion of ordinary carbon to carbon 14 slowly increases. But the carbon clock only works...
...serious hitch, he reports in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Because the rate at which amino acids change their configuration varies significantly with heat, the temperature history of the specimen must be taken into account. Still, if an object has been sheltered in a cave or buried in the ocean floor, that should not be a great problem: the fossil is not likely to have undergone any great temperature variations that would upset the age calculations...
...martial in as many years, he won a reprieve for one day only. The Yankees had come to Okinawa to play some exhibition games, and Downey had the reputation of being a good fastballer. He pitched three innings. Then Yogi Berra stepped up to bat, swatted one into the ocean, and Downey was back in stir...