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...result of the earthquake, the Cambridge architectural firm of Lazano, White & Associates will help design shock-proof building for Yerevan. Other potential areas of trade which the delegation plans to explore range from souvenir shops to advanced biotechnology, said Cambridge Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf...
...other gerontocrats who dominated the musical scene after World War II were able to last so long was that there was simply no seasoned competition: the conflict killed off a whole generation of Europeans and some Americans, from whose ranks their successors might ordinarily have emerged. Partly as a result, the repertoire stagnated as Karajan and his contemporaries grew increasingly out of touch...
Should the U.S. Government be involved in coups that might result in the assassination of foreign political leaders? That old controversy was being debated with new intensity last week in Washington. In the wake of this month's failed coup against Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega, the fickle finger of blame is being pointed in all directions. It has been aimed at George Bush, at Congress, at CIA director William Webster and at the coup plotters themselves. Last week it targeted a section of a presidential order that bars all direct or indirect U.S. involvement in assassinations. The issue...
...overall motion. Explains Berkeley seismologist Robert Uhrhammer: "Stress builds up in these areas that are in effect welded shut. It's as if the rock were being stretched like a big rubber sheet." At a certain point the rock snaps, allowing the plates to slip and release stress. The result is an earthquake...
Perhaps the most important planning efforts concerned ways of coping in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. The Pacific Gas & Electric Co. quickly shut off power in San Francisco to minimize chances that a spark might ignite gas leaking from ruptured lines. As a result, only seven buildings were lost to fire. Frightened residents in dozens of towns could find detailed instructions on household safety measures in their telephone books...