Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Klupinski fell three stories and fractured his skull on the pavement below on September 16 while watching Billy Crystal accept an award outside the Harvard Lampoon...
Limousines squeeze through the alley and roll to a smooth stop. Orange camera lights flare. Flashes pop. Cameras roll. The lieutenant governor steps out onto the pavement and quickly disappears behind the huddle of attendants in blue uniforms and "Blues Brother" name tags, as impatient guests stand in a purgatorial line. Half an hour later, burly Blues Brother John shepherds us into single file. By this time, the guests are at each others' throats. A woman, standing nearby, elbows in front of me, turns around, and says, "I must be in front of you. Because, you know, one person...
...strangers appeared at her window, forced her out of the car and sped off. Basu, her left arm still helplessly tangled in the harness strap of her seat belt, was dragged facedown across the coarse pavement until there was nothing left of her clothes but the bloodstained blouse on her back...
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...
...three episodes, at least -- pretty paltry. Becky has promised Andre that she will go see his rock band perform, but she is too tired after attending an art show with Norman. Heather, out with Julie walking Norman's Great Dane, is angry when the dog knocks her to the pavement. "I wanted to kill Julie, the dog, Norman," she says later. "I woulda just blown up the whole house, the way I felt that...