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...colleague Eldridge Moores of the University of California at Davis, revealed a key piece of new evidence. On the shore of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, the scientists had tentatively identified an ancient rock formation known as the Grenville Belt, which runs from northern Canada along the eastern seaboard and then dips out of sight in southwestern Texas. This geologic connection, combined with some data from the magnetic orientation of ancient rocks, suggests that Antarctica, as well as Australia, was shoved up against the western coast of North America late in the Precambrian period (from 1 billion to 570 million...
...sprout so effortlessly in Illinois would do the same in semiarid Montana, which gets less than 15 in. of rain annually. They are all gone now, tiny homes fallen in, schoolhouses vanished, everything blown away by the same winds that lofted the sandy soil as far as the Atlantic seaboard in the 1930s. A few of the homestead titles are held by descendants. Mathers sends lease payments to places like Florida and California...
...summer of 1988, untreated human waste and used medical syringes washed up on beaches across the Eastern seaboard...
...vessel -- larger than a World War II aircraft carrier -- has been modified so that it can run faster and more quietly than any other submersible, which means it has something no solo submarine has ever had: first-strike capability. It can glide in close to the U.S. Eastern seaboard, undetected, and start lobbing nuclear missiles at major population centers. Or threaten to. Being the sort of man who thinks he ought to help prevent World War III, not start it, Ramius enlists his key officers in a conspiracy to hoodwink the rest of the crew (and the Kremlin, of course...
...first widespread cases of flu appeared in Montana, New Mexico and Utah in mid-December, slightly earlier than normal. Within weeks, the disease broke out in Texas, Mississippi and Georgia and then along the Eastern Seaboard. Says Dr. Margaret Tipple, an epidemiologist at the CDC: "At this point, it's virtually coast to coast...