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MEASURING 5.9 ON THE RICHTER SCALE, THE EARTHquake that shook Cairo last Monday was only a medium-size tremor by world standards. But Cairo's densely overcrowded neighborhoods, the rickety state of much of the city's older housing and the shoddy construction of some of the city's newer buildings combined to turn it into an unprecedented national disaster. The 40-second tremor, felt as far away as Jerusalem, sent Cairo residents scrambling into the streets. As casualty reports flowed in from the capital and outlying provinces, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak hastily interrupted a trip to China. Egyptian...
Asked about Harvard's new president, Neil L.Rudenstine, Bell shook his head in resignation. "Iwould've hoped that there was going to be a newstart there...
...another mechanism capable of inducing fracture has been suggested by the Landers earthquake. Because the quake triggered scores of sympathetic vibrations in volcanic and geothermal regions, some scientists have speculated that the Landers event shook underground magma chambers as though they were big cans of soda. The gas that fizzed forth could, in turn, have forced open a gap that eased the slip of surrounding rock. Whatever the mechanism, experts agree, it has only hastened the fracture of a fault zone that was already stressed up and ready...
...Little Rock to prevent integration, and some families brought their children the 50 miles to Hot Springs to enroll them in Clinton's school. When Clinton and Carolyn Staley, class leaders as well as good friends, were elected to Boys Nation and Girls Nation, they went to Washington and shook John Kennedy's hand in the White House...
After Ohio's 144 votes put Clinton over the number needed for nomination, the 56-screen video wall broadcast Clinton's route from his viewing post at Macy's to the convention floor, where he shook hands and exchanged hugs with delegates and friends...