Word: seismically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hagstrum's proposal is based on the tracking of seismic waves generated by earthquakes and explsions, which indicates that such waves emanating from a huge impact would be focused by the earth, converging on the antipode and releasing their energy there. This concentration of energy might heat and distort the crust, eventually creating plumes through which magma could burst to the surface...
...Church on Chicago's North Side, even the traditional Mass is a little too hip for some old-timers. "I miss the Latin Mass; it just seemed more reverent," says Raymond Seitz, 68, who married into the middle- class parish in 1950 and is still smarting from the seismic Vatican II reforms of the early 1960s. "And when they started ending the Mass with this 'peace be with you' stuff, where you have to shake your neighbors' hands or kiss them, well, that didn't go over well at all." But at St. Gertrude's, the 10 a.m. Mass...
Hollywood went seismic over the news. The town regards Katzenberg as the most demanding boss and the keenest people pleaser in the business. People wondered why Eisner, if he didn't want Katzenberg to run Disney's business side as Wells had, didn't simply redefine the job and take the younger man on as a junior partner -- instead of what he will surely become, a ferocious competitor...
...familiar stripes can be seen through them. Astronomer Heidi Hammel of M.I.T. says the collisions will provide an opportunity to study the winds above Jupiter's cloud tops. "The mark left by the first impact is already starting to be spread around," she observes. There are also hints of seismic waves -- ripples thatmay have traveled all the way to a dense layer of liquid hydrogen thousands of miles down and then bounced back up to the surface, creating rings half the size of the planet's visible face. These waves may offer clues to Jupiter's internal structure...
When the sun set, veterans said it was hard to believe they were in a World Cup town. The center held. The faithful said it felt weird being somewhere that didn't skip a beat for such a seismic affair. Phil Hersh, who writes for the daily Chicago Tribune and is extraordinarily fond of soccer, told his readers he wished the World Cup weren't happening here. "I want the World Cup in a country where cheers come from restaurant kitchens when the home team scores," he wrote...