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With a mixture of excitement and dread, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena are rushing to augment an already extensive seismic network with portable instrumentation. "Before the San Andreas goes," reflects geologist Ken Hudnut somberly, "maybe we'll catch a precursor." A hot wind swoops across the desert as Hudnut retrieves a plastic box from under an oleander bush and pops the lid to reveal the small satellite receiver it shields from blowing sand. Nearby, a tripod-mounted antenna straddles a survey pipe like a spindly sentinel. Coded signals beamed down by orbiting ! satellites, Hudnut explains, serve...
...could trigger earthquakes along neighboring segments, possibly as far west as San Bernardino and nearly as far north as Bakersfield. Result: the long-feared Big One -- an earthquake of magnitude 8, five times as powerful as Landers -- on the doorstep of the populous Los Angeles Basin. Now, in the seismic spoor of the Landers earthquake, scientists have found reason to suspect that the timetable for this disaster may have been fast-forwarded...
...verities that shaped U.S. policy have vanished: for 45 years all candidates shared the basic belief that America's main job abroad was to contain communism, though some took a more confrontational line, some a more conciliatory one. The next President faces an entirely different challenge, grappling with seismic changes in which the choices are confusing, the directions obscure...
Conductor, composer, TV stalwart, Leonard Bernstein was a prodigy whose musical accomplishments were blurred by his seismic personality. He died in 1990 at 72, but his reputation, instead of receding as the fame of so many artists does after death, is going strong. The latest tribute is Sony's massive LEONARD BERNSTEIN ROYAL EDITION, a repackaging of his Columbia recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s. It consists of some 119 CDs, to be released over the next 2 1/2 years. The first 10 concentrate on Beethoven and Bartok, and the remastered sound is excellent. But that...
What happened in that room that summer was, by popular reckoning, the beginning of rock: not its musical genesis (some folks believe that started with the 1951 rhythm-and-blues hit Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston) but its first seismic stirrings into pop apotheosis. Elvis Presley didn't sound like nobody then, and 39 years later, he still doesn't. He didn't simply make his legend, and he didn't merely live it. All rock-'n'-roll mythology started with him and was shaped by him. And for all its powerful sources in the cult of his personality...