Word: rifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...causes the slow movement of entire continents. During the next three months French and American scientists hope to learn much more about the mysterious undersea area by prowling the depths some 200 miles southwest of the Azores. Their goal: the exploration of a small section of the great volcanic rift valley that cleaves the Atlantic Ocean bottom almost all the way from the Arctic to Antarctica...
...potential payoff makes the risks seem worthwhile. The mid-Atlantic rift valley that the subs will probe is the place "where the earth's crust is created," says Chief U.S. Scientist James Heirtzler of Woods Hole. According to the revolutionary new view of geology called "plate tectonics," the earth's outer shell consists not of a single solid mass but of half a dozen or so giant plates on top of which the continents drift like extremely slow-moving ice floes. It was the gradual outpouring of lava from deep within the earth's mantle along...
Bronowski begins in the Great Rift Valley of Africa where, it is believed, the creature that was to become man first put his footprints on the earth. The book ends in the 20th century at the same location with Bronowski's fearful, yet hopeful look into the future. In between he leads the way through a catalogue of human accomplishment, from Pythagoras on the mathematical laws that govern the universe to the revolutionary observations of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo; from Newton's experiments on the diffraction of light to James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery...
...latest uncertainty comes at a time when French foreign policies are under consistent attack abroad. The Bonn meeting with Brandt, which has now been postponed until late April or early May, was regarded as especially urgent in view of the Common Market's increasing disarray and the growing rift in the Atlantic Alliance. At home, Pompidou's government is beset by alarming inflation, aggravated by the oil crisis, and the threat of widespread labor unrest...
Watergate and the President's fumbling defense have widened the rift between Nixon and conservatives. Many believe that the scandal has destroyed an opportunity to remake American government in a more conservative image. They had hoped that the landslide victory would make Nixon so secure in office that he would feel no need to compromise with liberals. Now, however, they believe that the Watergate scandals have changed that situation. Last week, for example, the American Conservative Union forwarded to the White House statements from 35 conservative Senators and Congressmen roundly criticizing Nixon's proposed fiscal 1975 budget...