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...there’d be no secrets revealed,” Moss says. “If you reveal a secret, it is no longer a secret… They’re not just like pieces of candy labeled secrecy and you can pick them off the shelf and taste them.” Galison agrees. “It’s not an encyclopedia of secrets,” he says. “Its grounded in our presence, yet reaches back fifty years or so to try to understand why we are where...
...drilling," he says. Davies, who visited Porong last year and has studied the eruption extensively, thinks he knows how that happened. On May 27, Lapindo's Banjar Panji-1 well was operating in a field not far from Ahmad Mudakir's village. The well's target was a shelf of limestone some 9,800 ft. (3,000 m) below the surface. Lapindo's drillers were searching for natural-gas deposits, but the well was exploratory. No one knew for certain the subterranean conditions beneath Porong. The drillers had reached about 9,300 ft. (2,800 m) when they noticed...
...terrifying apparitions. But according to Tudor Parfitt, a real-life scholar-adventurer, Raiders of the Lost Ark had it wrong, and the Ark is actually nowhere near Egypt. In fact, Parfitt claims he has traced it (or a replacement container for the original Ark), to a dusty bottom shelf in a museum in Harare, Zimbabwe...
...When the report arrived, all of a sudden there was someone to give it to,” Dominguez says. “It is conceivable that had the external review been commissioned [without UCIPS involvement] it might have sat on a shelf...
...standing over there staring at her. Where did he come from and, more to the point, what in the world is he doing out here? The short answer is that my wife and I have become a tiny part of China's latest revolution. We got an off-the-shelf mortgage from the Standard Chartered Bank branch in town, plunked down 25% of the purchase price, and bought ourselves a piece of the Great Chinese Dream...