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Moments later, Bogie slipped the ball to Romero charging in from the left. Romero's shot tore into the right corner of the net, and the Cosmos led, 1-0. Brand shook his head and clenched his fists...
...favorite class was art. Jill thought she could be "one of the great ones, painting masterpieces." The students were told to draw a barn, and the results were displayed. Jill checked them out, feeling more confident about her own gifts as she went along. Then she saw one "that shook me like wheels spinning. It was art, far better than mine. It showed a loose shingle on the barn roof and a cobweb in the field. I'd missed those details that added insight to the picture. I realized I lacked the genius to see more than other eyes...
When Mount St. Helens finally blew its top after almost two months of rumbling and sputtering, the show was spectacular enough that it hardly required an encore for a century or so. But last week the seemingly inexhaustible volcano gave another lively performance. A second major eruption shook the mountain over the Memorial Day weekend, and steam and ash belched forth in fitful bursts throughout the week. More ominously, seismologists detected tremors originating from deep within the volcano's molten rock core, another sign of restlessness...
...Margaret, a peak only 13 km (eight miles) northeast of Mount St. Helens. Though scientists emphasized that these seismic disturbances were not hints of an impending eruption, the tremors only added to what might be called a case of tectonic fever on the West Coast. Hundreds of small earthquakes shook the Sierra Nevada in central California, causing landslides and some injuries. At least 100 of the quakes measured above 4.0 on the Richter scale and three reached 6.0 or higher, levels at which there would have been more widespread destruction in populated areas...
...observers, but most believed it to be a logical response to the strife that has surrounded CRP for the past five years. Since John F. Kain, professor of Economics, took over as chairman of CRP in 1975, the department has taken an unabashedly nontraditional approach to urban planning. He shook up the basic curriculum required of all first-year planning students who entered Gund Hall. Heavily steeped in economic and political analysis, the courses included two semesters of quantitative methods as well as offerings such as "Economic Analysis for Planning," "Urban Growth and Spatial Structure," and "Public Finance and Budgeting...