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What surprised many scientists was that the data appeared to liken Barnacle Bill to andesites, which are volcanic rocks usually found on Earth in the Andes Mountains and other areas of explosive volcanism. Andesites are typically formed by the repeated melting, solidifying and remelting that occurs during the tectonic-plate processes that shape and reshape terrestrial continents. Yet Mars seems to have very few volcanoes and shows no signs of tectonic plates, which suggested to some scientists that the planet wasn't internally active long enough to form andesites. Then what process could have created Barnacle Bill...
...from the murder scene (and captured on an indistinct video) and Cunanan. A witness described the fleeing man as white, in his late 20s, dark-haired and approximately 5 feet 10 inches tall. Meanwhile, police have issued an all-points bulletin for a stolen black Nissan Pathfinder (Florida license plate LLM-782), thought to have been driven by Cunanan, and are scrutinizing a hotel security camera videotape which shows a man similar to the fugitive running down a nearby alleyway shortly after Versace's killing. In an effort to scrape up further leads, Attorney General Janet Reno and New offered...
...disputes over the years, concerning everything from auto shipments to whaling, this latest dustup may be the hardest to comprehend. Baseball is, after all, an American game. If the Japanese didn't want to learn from an American umpire, then why did they ask him to get behind home plate...
...criticism was always that he was erratic at the plate and too small to put the ball over the fence. This year, Ralph proved his critics wrong in dramatic fashion...
...still made run-saving grabs in center, laying out for several diving catches over the course of the season, but he also arrived at the plate, hitting .390 with six home runs and 36 RBI in the team's 50-game season. Several of Harvard's longest home runs of the season came off the bat of the 5'10 Ralph...