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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that his theory is based largely on old or inexact observations. The ancient Greeks and Romans regarded fogs, strange clouds and eerie lights as precursors of earthquakes. These atmospheric phenomena, suggests Tributsch, may have been of an electrical nature. Indeed, a 1976 U.S. Geological Survey conference on animal behavior prior to earthquakes concluded that the body of such casual evidence is too large to ignore. In addition, a number of researchers have found that positive ions can have marked physiological effects on people and animals by stimulating the production of serotonin, a neurohormone that plays a role in the transmission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sensing Quakes | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...Democratic Steering Committee voted 12-8 to give Sen. Edward Zorinsky (D -Neb.) the foreign relations post. Zorinsky, who has more seniority, had prior claim to the title, Tsongas said, adding that he was pleased with the positions he had received...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tsongas Seats | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

...messages that began in the early '70s. An earlier Scott-Heron/Jackson album, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, first called attention to the artists who sketched a scenario of the world's last revolution. Scott-Heron, who is also a poet, wrote a book of revolutionary verse prior to the release of his first politicized album, Winter in America. The album included such "H2O-G-A-T-E Blues," a saga about you-know-what and "The Bottle," a track about one man's bout with alcoholism. The real verbal delivery came in South Africa to South Carolina which...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: A Verbal Coltrane | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

...committed in self-defense. Scott-Heron is saying Tyler's case is not special, it's common. Some people wonder if Scott-Heron/Jackson go far enough and others wonder why they venture so far. Secrets is Scott-Heron/Jackson at their most subdued level. Bridges, the last album prior to Secrets, contains more music and less rhetoric. South Africa to South Carolina, released in 1976, is highly political in content and feverish in rhythm. Secrets manages to strike a balance between these two modes of music. All of their albums include a track about a revolution; in "Third World...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: A Verbal Coltrane | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

First Period: H--Mike Watson (John Cochrane, George Hughes), 3:00; H--Cochrane (Watson), 10:28; UVM--Gary Prior (Craig Homola, Louis Cote), 14:35. Second Period: UVM--Prior (Cote, Chris Zimmerman), 4:23; UVM--Zimmerman (Homola, Mark Brown), 14:03; UVM--Jim Duffy (unassisted), 17:05; H--Jack Hughes (Mitch Olson, G. Hughes), 18:11. Third Period: UVM--Tom Cullity (Zimmerman, Cote), 1:42; UVM--Brown (Jim Murphy, Mike Vincent), 8:26; H--Scott Powers (Jim Trainor, John Dunderdale), 9:24; UVM--Zimmerman (empty net goal...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Vermont Freezes Icemen, 7-4 Crimson Record Now at 3-5 | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

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