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Last week's report, delivered by Dalziel and his colleague Eldridge Moores of the University of California at Davis, revealed a key piece of new evidence. On the shore of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, the scientists had tentatively identified an ancient rock formation known as the Grenville Belt, which runs from northern Canada along the eastern seaboard and then dips out of sight in southwestern Texas. This geologic connection, combined with some data from the magnetic orientation of ancient rocks, suggests that Antarctica, as well as Australia, was shoved up against the western coast of North America late...
...result was that, instead of closing the bank, regulators in 1988 agreed to let CenTrust float $200 million in bonds to shore it up. B.C.C.I. contributed $25 million of that amount. Bank regulators thus postponed CenTrust's death by more than a year and raised the cost of the eventual bailout by hundreds of millions. In the grand jury investigation in Miami, Abedi's bank stands accused of parking the $25 million temporarily to dress up CenTrust's books for the regulators...
...into an environmental inferno. Across the land hundreds of orange fireballs roar like dragons, blasting sulfurous clouds high into the air. Soot falls like gritty snowflakes, streaking windshields and staining clothes. From the overcast skies drips a greasy black rain, while sheets of gooey oil slap against a polluted shore. Burned-out hulks of twisted metal litter a landscape pockmarked by bomb craters, land mines and shallow graves scraped in the sand...
...Marines repeatedly practiced amphibious landings, as conspicuously as possible, and as zero hour approached, an armada of 31 ships swung into position to put them ashore near Kuwait City. The battleships Missouri and Wisconsin took turns, an hour at a time, firing their 16-in. guns at Iraqi shore defenses. It was all a feint; * the war ended with 17,000 Marines still aboard their ships...
...average Tahitian island, as it turns out, is ringed by a coral atoll that breaks the surf, making the lagoon a lovely protected place to anchor a sailboat, but also preventing the formation of beaches. Mostly the shore is lined with large rocks and stretches of dirty gravel...