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...moment of the earthquake" is the product of the ruptured area multiplied by the average slip multiplied by the sheer modulus...
Despite 400 hours of training in NASA's space-simulating water tanks and plenty of spacewalking experience, the astronauts realize that the tiniest unforeseen problem could turn their effort into a disaster. A stripped bolt, a slightly misaligned part, a slip on the part of the fix-it crew could disable the telescope completely, leaving NASA and the scientists who depend on the Hubble worse off than before...
Certainly the network TV system is rigged heavily against fair use. For one thing, the insurance companies that provide the obligatory "errors and omissions" insurance for TV productions demand that each clip come with a permission slip from its copyright owner. (Imagine if a book critic had to get Rush Limbaugh's permission to quote his prose in a review, and maybe pay him for the privilege; that's precisely the situation in TV.) Furthermore, television "signal piracy" -- that is, merely taping and then broadcasting 10 seconds of Barbara Walters in order to critique her performance -- is a federal crime...
...free throw Shooting is still bad. So is the assist-to-turnover ratio. And in perhaps the worst resemblance to its recent predecessors, this season's squad has shown that penchant for letting close games slip away...
...approach graduation, we face Prince Hal's challenge. Do we take the throne of this diseased kingdom? Do we even want it? And if we do, will we hold tight our childhood dreams, those dreams formerly untainted by considerations of salary, power and self advancement? Or will we slip mindlessly into the grips of the status quo? Can we rise to the occasion of these plagued years? Should we have...