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In May, photographs from a U.S. satellite showed two parallel lines, running through the northern outskirts of Tokyo, that may represent faults in the earth's crust. Then Japanese seismologists were shaken up by a U.S. colleague. Columbia University's Christopher H. Scholz (TIME, Aug. 27) suggested that...
Stonehenge is his passion. The author argues that the Stonehengers' astronomical virtuosity-they detected a 56-year lunar cycle unnoticed even by modern astronomers until Hawkins' investigation-sprang from an intense feeling that their lives were intimately connected with celestial rhythms. Lunar eclipses, for example, were times fraught...
The prediction technique was devised independently by the Lamont researchers (TIME, Feb. 12) and Stanford University Scientist Amos Nur. It is based upon a sudden cracking and expansion of rock along a fault zone in the earth when stresses reach a critical point. This cracking creates many tiny cavities in...
> Eliot Janeway, often known as "Calamity Janeway," operates out of an East Side Manhattan town house, has 1,800 subscribers who pay $125 a year for his four-page Janeway Service, and 350 subscribers who pay $550 a year for the single-page Janeway Letter plus the right to phone...
By the late '30s, much of what Wells had predicted had come true. A world already in future shock either forgot him or patronized him. Cruelly, Lytton Strachey snobbishly noted: "I stopped thinking about Wells the moment he became a thinker." Not everyone did, however. As late as 1969...