Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's statement "To be great is to be misunderstood" was made for Dole. For that reason, it was nice to read your balanced report about him. After studying Dole for years, I'm ready to follow the man across the Pacific in a leaky rowboat. JAKE M...
Scientists have also learned that far from being a flat, featureless plain, the sea floor is rent and wrinkled with a topography that puts dry land to shame. Not only do the seas hold canyons deep enough to hide the Himalayas, but they are also the setting for what is...
Rock samples from the Atlantic section of the range--which, when examined closely, proved to be newly formed--provided striking evidence that the theory is correct. But an even more dramatic confirmation came from the Pacific, where black clouds of superheated, mineral-rich water were discovered spewing from chimney-like...
While academics think of the vents as fascinating natural chemistry labs, capitalists view them as mini-refineries, bringing valuable metals up from the planet's interior and concentrating them in convenient locations. Oceanographers have long known that parts of the Pacific sea floor at depths between 14,000 ft. and...
The desperate need to anticipate future quakes is one reason JAMSTEC built the Shinkai 6500 submersible, which can go deeper than any other piloted craft in the world. On its very first series of missions in 1991, Shinkai found unsuspected deep fissures on the edge of the Pacific plate, which...