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...McKenzie returned to Australia in 2003 to film the low-budget feature Peaches. She was the first to be cast in Craig Monahan's just-released tale about a troubled teen working in a small-town peach cannery - but as the central figure's stepmother Jude. It was a seismic shift for McKenzie, whose character ages 20 years. "She had to cross a bridge," recalls Monahan. "She's smart, she knew the time was right and this was a good role to do it in. She ran towards it really." By turns warm and worn, McKenzie is a revelation...
...invective isn't surprising given what's at stake. If proved correct, the existence of H. floresiensis would be nothing less than a revolution in the understanding of human evolution. It's not just that a new species has been claimed to be found, itself an event of seismic proportions. Conventional anthropological wisdom holds that animals, in the absence of big predators, shrink to adapt to life on small, closed habitats like Flores, a phenomenon known as island dwarfism. Humans, however, are thought to have evolved linearly, developing bigger bodies and brains. H. floresiensis, relatively modern yet small...
...group’s current leadership wants to turn back that seismic change. “The overall goal of the expedition is to get members of the club back into the kind of climbing that is internationally recognized,” President Lucas T. Laursen ’06 says. “We want to go to an unexplored area and climb things that haven’t been climbed before.” And the historical significance of the sherpa-esque club is not lost on its current members. “Take the example of Bradford...
...Changes in our business have really been seismic in the 25 years since then...driven by technology, the proliferation of choices in news, and frankly, the changing habits of generations, particularly your generation,” Heyward said...
...perform short-term divination, geologists examine a number of clues. Mild seismic activity in the area, rumblings or the emission of ash and gases are all harbingers of greater things to come. Changes in the snowcaps that cover tall volcanoes may also indicate trouble. In Iceland, for example, the sight of a sagging, snow-covered mountaintop, which indicates that hot magma is pushing upward and melting the ice cap, warns knowledgeable residents to head for safety. More sophisticated techniques include tiltmeters or laser ranging devices to detect deformations in the volcano cone, also caused by magma oozing upward. Seismometers...