Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone dreams of building a home away from home. A place your family can enjoy during their vacation. It can be at the lake, the ocean or in a forest. But if your vacation home is in or near a forest you have to be extra careful with fire. Or your dream home could go up in smoke. So here are just a few simple rules to remember...
...took. I had no place to go. I stuck out my thumb on a freeway entrance, going through all my tears to Venice, where I remembered beatniks lived. Afraid, with all my books, my dictionary, my eye makeup clutched to me, I sat on a bench staring at the ocean...
Relations between British Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher and her ousted predecessor, Ted Heath, are as frosty as ever, but the two Conservatives do have one thing in common. Both like to be photographed in yachting hats at the helm of a boat. Ocean-Racer Heath, however, need fear no competition from Thatcher, who last week on holiday was content to be aboard the twin-engine Melita on the placid canals of Brittany. "It really is so important to keep a boat tidy," counseled the Tories' First Lady. "Any housewife will tell you, the smaller the space, the more important...
...tremor in China, is believed to have killed hundreds. Indeed, not a day passes without earth tremors somewhere on the globe. Some of those quakes are too weak to be felt by humans; they can be detected only by sensitive seismographs. Others are more violent but occur on the ocean floor or in remote areas and do no harm. Some add to the long catalogue of destruction. Last week, for example, a 4.7 earthquake rocked lightly populated Kodiak Island, off the coast of Alaska. In July, a 6.8 quake struck Pagan, Burma, destroying or damaging half of the city...
When quake centers are marked on a map of the world, it becomes clear that many earthquakes do indeed occur along plate boundaries. The earthquake-marked "ring of fire" around the Pacific Ocean, for example, neatly outlines the Pacific plate. But earthquakes can also occur well within a plate, possibly because the plate structure has been weakened in those places during periods of ancient volcanism. Charleston, S.C., for instance, is more than 1,000 miles away from the edge of the North American plate; yet it lies in a seismically active area (see map page...