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Another crucial advantage, Steim says, is the ability to store data in digital form--a practice that has revolutionized the way scientists share and analyze findings. Back in the days when seismic waves were recorded on paper, "it took years to gather data--it was literally mailed from researcher-to-researcher," Steim says...
Harvard has also contributed to the "big picture"--encouraging seismic stations around the world to collaborate and exchange data...
...Jack's life has undergone some seismic shifts in the past 18 months. His marriage of 12 years collapsed, and he was fired from a job in his wife's family's business, leaving him to search for new career options. "It became evident to me that I didn't have control over my life," he said a few days before the counseling session. "This is one small piece where I can get some control." Jack thought that a negative test result--one that showed no abnormality in the gene IT-15 on chromosome 4--would inspire him to consider...
...foundation's bingo-parlor proceeds that financed the Jewish zealots who set up house in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, nearly provoking violent confrontation with the Palestinians and casting more blight over the peace process. It was not the first time his philanthropy had set off seismic reverberations. His money helped prompt the opening of a new exit to an archaeological tunnel in East Jerusalem a year ago that sparked a bloody three-day gun battle between Israeli and Palestinian security forces in which 76 people died. Trust between Israeli and Palestinian leaders has never recovered...
...WASN'T GROWN, IT HAD TO BE MINED. In a region where people's lives are dominated by forces beyond their power to influence--the swings of the metals market, the grazing policies of the Bureau of Land Management, the caprices of the U.S. military and the earth's seismic churning that underlies everything--paranoia may be not a pathology but a rational coping mechanism...