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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...
...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...
...videotape made by a witness on the night of March 3, 1991, when, after a high-speed chase, King was forced out of his car and encircled by police. The 81-second video recorded what happened next: a danse macabre of casual, almost studied, violence. King, writhing on the pavement, was kicked by his uniformed assailants, jolted with a stun gun and hit with nightsticks 56 times...
Some of those images were, in their grotesque way, priceless: a woman staggering down the street trying not to scrape her new, no-down-payment dining room table on the pavement; another lady attempting to jam her stolen sofa onto a pickup truck already overladen with loot. Modern America's great guiding principle, shop till you drop, was in process of revision; steal till you kneel was more like...
...seat-of-the-pants introduction to America's highway misery, try rattling down the joint-jangling Southwest Freeway in the shadow of the Washington Monument. On this long-neglected strip of pavement, a washboard ripple effect experts call rutting jiggles the front wheels into a dervish dance. Farther along in a newly rebuilt section, potholes already lurk, like so many blacktop booby traps...