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...institutions do not live up to this task, new ones will take their place. The Promise Keepers, a hybrid of traditional associationism and new-fangled group politics, gives us a taste of things to come. On the other hand, as the Pope's recent theatrical appearances in South America signal, the traditional forces are not down for the count just...
Seismology has come a long way from wobbly pens recording earthquakes as spikes on a roll of paper. Today's equipment, using technology designed by Dr. Joseph M. Steim '78 for his Harvard Ph.D. thesis, measures the motion of the earth as an electric signal which is recorded into a computer...
...there were previously one instrument to measure very dim blue light and another to measure very bright red light," Steim says. "You can imagine it was very difficult to put that together to get a clear rendition of the signal, for example, if the source were white light" which is composed of all colors...
...signal from an earthquake in China, for example, can travel through the center of the earth at up to 22,000 miles per hour and be felt on the other side of the earth within 20 minutes, according to Dziewonski. But he says that the signals will be slightly different in Paris, New York and Caracas. Analyzing these differences can shed light onto the composition of the earth's interior...
...busy signal from four separate phone lines on an average of three to four times a week when trying to log on to AOL. And once I finally get into AOL, half the time I can't get out to the Internet! I can't talk about "turkey breasts" for fear of being censored--or worse, sent into cyberoblivion for saying a nasty word. And lastly, AOL commits to unlimited access for $19.95 to get us yahoos to join, and now reneges on its promise while planning to charge us extra for its new games area. Then Joshua Cooper Ramo...