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...decades. As early as the 1940s, geologists noticed an extensive network of fractures that radiates outward in the layers of limestone beneath the Everglades like cracks around a bullet hole in a pane of shatterproof glass. Maps published by the Florida Bureau of Geology in 1974 show a pit-like dip in the area's underground geological contours. Magnetic readings in the Everglades suggest the presence of a subterranean mass of metallic ore that could conceivably be the remains of an asteroid. Finally, scientific journals have noted that a commonly found rock stratum, called the Ocala formation, is suspiciously absent...
...survived. There were rumors that four key plotters who tried to take over the government, including former President Abdul Fattah Ismail and Vice President Ali Ahmed Nasser Antar, had been executed. But the persistence of the fighting suggested otherwise. On an ideological basis, the struggle appeared to pit the pragmatic Marxist, President Muhammad, who has sought more amicable relations with his Arab neighbors and would welcome aid from such countries as Saudi Arabia, against the more zealously pro-Moscow Ismail and Antar. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat offered to mediate the dispute, and Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi declared...
...anyone is allowed to morph this dramatically, it should be Steve Wynn. After all, Wynn turned a city that was a pit stop for male vice into an international family destination. Expectations that he was going to top his past extravaganzas were so huge that when he started construction on the lush, waterfall-laden, 43-m man-made mountain in front of his new hotel, the rumor in town was that he was building a ski resort on the Strip. But Wynn Las Vegas, which opened in April, exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme...
...Rafiq Hariri? Barring a confession from the conspirators, the world may never know the full truth. But interviews with the participants in the drama reveal the immense pressure under which Hariri lived out his final months. His encounter with Assad last August set off a six-month showdown that pit Hariri against one of the most ruthless regimes in the Middle East, which had concluded it could no longer tolerate his defiance. In the end, that defiance may have cost Hariri his life. But it also gave his countrymen-and, perhaps, the region-a chance for a different future...
Besides serving as the main hub, Dorm Crew’s office in the basement of Weld Hall acts as a pit stop for freshmen bathroom supplies. Orfitelli estimates that on average the Dorm Crew office gives out 320 rolls of toilet paper every week. That’s 24,200 square feet of toilet paper every 7 days, enough to cover half a football field...