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What might cause such a ripple to spread across a fault remains a mystery. Numerous ideas have been suggested. Brune believes sliding rock physically deforms like tires squealing on pavement. In this case, what greases the skid is an invisible air pad that prevents the two surfaces from establishing frictional contact. Just last week, in a paper published by the science journal Nature, a team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park offered an alternative possibility. Groundwater, they theorized, trapped under high pressure, might also serve to pry faults apart, allowing them to slip with a minimum...
...tell a great deal about tycoons from those pivotal moments before they became rich. Ross Perot's launching pad was IBM, where he spent his late 20s and early 30s (1957-62) selling computers from the firm's Dallas office. In mid-1962 Perot quit to start Electronic Data Systems, the source of his $3 billion fortune...
...whether Perot had these clients lined up when he sold them the equipment in the first place. Charles Bridges, a former executive with Southwestern, says that Perot may have sold and then canceled "minor pieces of equipment" but that he "did not take unnecessary orders in order to pad his account." Bridges adds, "The problem I had with Perot is that if the game doesn't go the way Ross wants it to go, he keeps trying to change the rules so that he wins...
...Leverett junior certainly did his part, slamming a low curveball over the fence in the third inning to drive in three runs. The homer gave Harvard a 6-1 lead, which it would happily pad in the fourth, fifth and seventh innings...
...College activism is about idealism," says Harry James Wilson '93, who says he plans to enter academia before trying his hand at elective politics. "It's not a question of trying to pad your resume...