Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they monitor the stresses inexorably building up in the earth along the San Andreas Fault, seismologists agree that California could at almost any time suffer another major earthquake, perhaps even more serious than San Francisco's 1906 disaster. Scientists hesitate to predict exactly when or where the big quake will come, but that has not deterred two young astronomers, John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann. In a new book, The Jupiter Effect (Walker; $7.95), which has generally been treated seriously by the press and the networks, they prophesy that a major quake will devastate the Los Angeles area...
...knows? Harvard may surprize this year. Perhaps it will overpower all comers. Or perhaps it will get licked with discouraging regularity. But don't count on it. I predict another roller-coaster season. I wouldn't want it any other way because by now I have become addicted to Crimson cliffhangers...
...fairly easy for one to predict that if Allende wins, there is a good chance that he will establish over a period of years some sort of Communist government. In that case you would have one not on an island off the coast which has not a traditional relationship and impact on Latin America, but in a major Latin American country you would have a Communist government, joining for example, Argentina, which is already deeply divided, along a long frontier, joining Peru, which has already been heading in directions that have been difficult to deal with, and joining Bolivia, which...
...died recently at Gulf yielded some 300 trillion leprosy bacilli-good news for medical researchers who have been searching for ways to cultivate the bacteria for laboratory studies. Doctors will also be able to use the infected tissue to make a diagnostic reagent called lepromin, which is used to predict the severity of a leprosy patient's disease. The single New Iberia animal has yielded enough of the chemical to perform 15 million tests-about as many as there are leprosy patients in the world...
...possibly the most distant objects in the universe-up to 12 billion light-years away -promise to take on more earthly importance. Scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are hoping to use the bursts of high-frequency radio energy that come from quasars to help them predict earthquakes...