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...rim of the Pacific, the great...
...strategic places on the rim of California's San Joaquin Valley, men kneel in gravelike pits. Camouflaged with grass, they await their prey. A stillborn calf lies as bait within inches of each of the earthen blinds. Nearby, other men squat beside a row of four metal cannons, ready to fire weights attached to a 40-ft. by 50-ft. net. Frustrated, they all scan the sky, hoping that the wintry clouds collecting on the horizon do not close in. The 20-lb. Gymnogyps californianus rarely seeks food on stormy days...
Should the probe weather its many assaults, the rewards will be splendid. During its four-hour encounter, Giotto will explore the material streaming from the nearby nucleus with a total of ten experiments. As the craft revolves on its axis, a solid-state optical camera extending from the bottom rim like a bent stovepipe will snap a photograph once every four seconds. The pictures will be instantly transmitted to earth and shown live on television. Mass spectrometers will analyze the composition of the dust from the nucleus, and other instruments will examine the properties of the ions in detail...
Three faults in the Ring of Fire, an earthquake-prone region around the Pacific rim, present a potential hazard to UCLA: the southern San Andreas fault, the Newport-Inglewood fault, and the Santa Monica fault. There is a 50 percent chance that a major earthquake--registering a minimum of eight on the Richter scale--will occur in the next 20 years at the San Andreas fault, the report said...
...among the Dinka tribesmen, basketball was known as a logical career for a 91-in. man. Of confused age, though thought to be 23, Bol had a traumatic introduction to the game six years ago. Goaded by a cousin to attempt a dunk, he broke several teeth on the rim. In the spirit of his 7-ft. 10-in. grandfather, a chieftain with some 80 children, though against the wishes of his 6-ft. 8-in. father, a cattleman who died lonely for his only son, Bol inevitably made his way to a local team in Wau, a national team...