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...planet's molten outer core. At the rate of nearly 5 cm (2 in.) a year, the Pacific plate to the west of the San Andreas is slowly pushing north, past the North American plate on the east. One possible result: 60 million or so years from now, a sliver of the California coast that includes the megalopolis of Los Angeles could become beachfront property in Alaska...
Himself an Olympic ice hockey player--he holdsa sliver medal from the 1956 Olympics and a goldfrom the 1960 games--Cleary said he wishes theevents were restricted to amateurs, so that youngathletes would have the opportunity to compete...
When the trustees decided a decade ago that they could not manage without considerable additional space, they turned to Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel, architects whose work (sleek, handsome, rather restrained) is not exactly Wrightian. On the 35-ft. sliver of land behind Wright's museum, Gwathmey Siegel would build the Guggenheim an addition. Ever since, the firm has been accused by a slightly hysterical mandarin consensus of desecrating the Guggenheim, of wanting to make a toothpick from a piece of the True Cross; the first design, a huge tower that brazenly cantilevered a pale green box out over Wright...
...central calculation that Democrats and Republicans are now testing is whether it is possible to capture the presidency this fall with just their most ardent supporters plus a sliver of help from the independents, who seem increasingly devoted to Perot. Ultimately Bush and Clinton may have little choice: with Perot drawing most deeply from independents and matching Bush in national polls, it seems increasingly possible that the next President may win as little as 34% to 45% of the popular vote...
Cast members were poised in the middle of the audience with fog machines throughout the production, creating an interesting misty effect that enhanced the rather extra-terrestrial feel of the set. Several of the actors favored the spaceman look, with sliver shoes and ling-snouted plastic guns...