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While New York University’s (NYU) most famous freshmen—teen billionaires and pop culture phenomena Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen—likely had no financial worries in matriculating at the private university last year, many of their peers anxiously faced high tuition and looming debts. However, NYU’s financial aid may give students of all socioeconomic backgrounds—not just those raised on “Full House”—a chance at higher education...
...more. Because of some religious fundamentalists, part of my city was gone forever. And because of that event, religious fundamentalism of a surprisingly similar ilk captured the heart of our country. The use of religion by Bush and his cohort to manipulate America is one of the most appalling phenomena I have ever witnessed. It ate away at me, filled me with disgust. The opiate of the masses indeed, I thought...
...Miami to the Colombian capital, Bogot, a sprawling city of 5 million in the Andes. The plane was cruising at 24,000 ft., 110 miles or ten minutes from El Dorado International Airport. Then, without warning, Cervero and his aircraft ran afoul of one of nature's most destructive phenomena...
...second-guessing about the event could go on for months. Meanwhile, the danger from Nevado del Ruiz may still be far from over. Says the University of Pisa's Barberi: "Other explosions are certain to take place. It may be that the phenomena will be of minor intensity, but they will be equally dangerous." For one thing, he asserts, the large glaciers that surround the crater of Nevado del Ruiz have still not been warmed by the eruptions. If those rivers of ice should melt, they would create additional mud avalanches that would place rescuers in serious danger...
Christiansen and others suspect that magma is produced in the subduction zone, the border between the diving plate and the lower mantle. In that complicated layer, a variety of phenomena, including high temperatures, changes in pressure and the influx of water, may act to melt the already softened rock. Minerals and water then coalesce with the molten material into viscous, tear-shaped packets known as diapirs. Because they are more buoyant than surrounding rock, the diapirs percolate upward, like bubbles rising through honey, melting more rock as they go. Eventually they accumulate in pockets called magma chambers, located two miles...