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...simmering disputes. Although the basic cause of earthquakes on the San Andreas is well understood--the fault marks the major interface between two sections of the earth's crust that are grinding past each other--scientists argue endlessly about the details. Among the most pressing questions are whether the rock in the fault zone is intrinsically strong or weak and whether an increase in fluid pressure helps trigger earthquakes by prying apart the fault. "We have lots of ideas, and finally we're getting a chance to test them," says William Ellsworth, chief scientist for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Team...
...tired ritual, there's some real politics going on. It's not just the politics of protest, for which the G-8 became infamous four years ago during riots in Genoa, forcing levels of security that would make Kim Jong Il blush. There will be protest, possibly flamboyant. The rock singer Bob Geldof has called for a million people to make their way to Edinburgh to campaign for Africa's poor. He even wants another Dunkirk of small boats to ferry activists across the English Channel; much better TV than taking Ryanair. Geldof is also mounting a worldwide string...
...Oscars, Chris Rock interviewed a guy who hadn't seen any of the nominated films but said Riddick was the year's best. Would you rather be that guy's choice or the critics'? You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home...
Early on, you found your multiracial background a hindrance to getting roles. Has Hollywood changed? My career is proof that it has. We don't really delve into the origins of Keanu Reeves, Jessica Alba, the Rock...
...1940s, Aaron Copland's magisterial Lincoln Portrait debuted; in the 1950s, Carl Sandburg held a joint session of Congress rapt with his speech that began, "Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is hard as rock and soft as a drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect." In 1963, TIME put Lincoln on the cover of its 40th-anniversary issue, "The Individual in America," and christened him the embodiment of that quality "in the special...