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Newburyport Mayor Edward G. Molin lost his rubber match with former Mayor Peter J. Matthews by 3159 to 3348 vote margin. Holyoke Mayor Dunn beat challenger Edward O'Connor by a landslide...
Just two years ago, Clark opposed the tenure bid of a radical legal scholar, reasoning that her written work was inadequate. Traditionally, the law faculty have rubber-stamped tenure offers, so Clark's strenuous opposition to the appointment continued to reverberate when he was named dean earlier this year...
...movement of the plates is not uniform. Along fault zones the plates tend to become "locked," resisting the 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...
Those precautions saved hundreds of lives. In San Francisco modern office high-rises, many standing on huge steel-and-rubber springs deep below their foundations, rode out the bucking movement, bouncing and swaying as much as 30 ft. from side to side without cracking open. Within minutes after the quaking subsided, emergency response teams, honed by hundreds of hours of drills, began rescuing victims, sealing off dangerously weakened structures and coordinating relief efforts...
...seek work, Braden was born and raised in the industrial town of Monroe, Mich. On his way to play football one day, Vic, then 11, passed the local tennis courts just as someone opened a can of balls. "You could hear the fizz," he recalls. "I could smell the rubber. It was an amazing kind of olfactory thing. I made up my mind I wanted one of those things...