Word: seismically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, what seems most significant about all the new therapies, what joins them together, is not their power, for this has yet to be proved. Rather, it is the seismic shift in strategy they collectively represent. Increasingly, researchers speak not of slaughtering the cancer cell but of tricking it into dying naturally, perhaps of old age, as other cells do. They also talk of reining in the cancer cell, even rehabilitating it, a task that demands the development of less toxic drugs that can be tolerated over a lifetime. The model for cancer therapy of the future already exists. "After...
...might not be all that bad for other cities. Asks Fishman: Could it be that by tearing down so much the Northridge earthquake has dealt Los Angeles the shock therapy it needs? That somehow the blow will compel the city to develop in ways that take account of the seismic dangers lurking beneath...
...decades Californians have lived in fear of the tectonic monster that inhabits the San Andreas Fault, a spectacular, 800-mile-long slash through the earth's surface. But last week's earthquake was a sobering reminder that the mighty San Andreas is not the state's only seismic menace. A web of smaller cracks crisscrosses the fragile California crust. Many of these faults are well known. But others lie hidden deep underground, like the one that gave Los Angeles its latest disaster. Until the earth moved, the residents of the northwestern suburb of Northridge had no idea that a deadly...
...been a fold, or buckling, in the earth's crust. Many scientists had thought such folds were harmless, formed by an imperceptibly gradual lifting of the ground. But when Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and geologist Robert Yeats of Oregon State University examined the seismic record of fold belts all around the world, they uncovered a different story. Folds, they warned, also grow through repeated earthquakes...
...most interesting aspect of the recent California quake from a seismic point of view is that it was not caused by the infamous San Andreas fault, or any other known, visible fault...