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California is an earthquake zone because it lies on the boundary, marked by the San Andreas Fault, between two huge sections of the earth's crust, known as plates. Gliding atop a sea of superheated rock that surrounds the planet's molten outer core, the Pacific plate -- a thick slab to which Los Angeles is attached -- is very slowly pushing its way north and west, past the North American plate to the east, which is moving in the opposite direction. Most of the time, in most places, the two plates are snagged; they block each other's progress, and tremendous...
...produced off-Broadway when she was 27. She received half a dozen awards for The Heidi Chronicles five years ago, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award (the first ever given to a woman dramatist without a male collaborator). Her latest, The Sisters Rosensweig, which received an Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony nomination on Broadway, opens in Boston today. In a conversation with The Harvard Crimson yesterday, she waxed ebullient about her life and work...
...over the next three years. He also wants smaller, cheaper and more efficient spacecraft. For example, Goldin has asked NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop a deep- space mission to Pluto for no more than $150 million, barely one third the cost of the Voyager probes to the outer planets...
...first goal came off a nifty set-up on the power play. Senior Derek Maguire pulled up at the outer edge of the Yale (0-1, 0-1) zone and sent a shot towards the net; Farrell, perfectly positioned himself to the right of Sullivan, deflected the puck home...
...embryos divided into two cells, the first step in development, the scientists quickly separated the cells, creating two different embryos with the same genetic information. (This sometimes happens naturally inside a mother, and the result is identical twins.) In the process, though, the researchers had to strip away an outer coating, called the zona pellucida, that is essential to development. Then came the trickiest part of the procedure. Over the years, Hall had been working with a gel derived from seaweed that could serve as a substitute for the zona pellucida. When Hall put the artificial coating around the cloned...