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...noted that "in a preliminary look, the rocks appear to be quite different from what we saw on Apollo 11 and 12." Since most lunar rocks are gray, the geologists were particularly eager to analyze a fragment chipped from a puzzling white boulder that the astronauts spotted on the slope of Fra Mauro's Cone Crater. The odd white sample, which contains a few dark flecks and streaks, may be as old as the moon and solar system: 4.6 billion years. As insurance against any loss of Apollo 14's precious cargo, NASA divided the rocks into...
...William Jacobson, 60, had no qualms last month when he joined the nation's 3,500,000 skiers. A recently retired California forester, he aimed to enjoy the outdoors even more than he had as a state employee. But as Jacobson, an advanced skier, whooshed down a slope at Sierra Ski Ranch, he lost control, hit a tree and broke his left elbow, shoulder blade and four ribs, which punctured a lung. Now incapacitated for at least two months, he has become an unhappy statistic-one of this year's roughly 100,000 injured U.S. skiers, more than...
...engineering argot is appropriate. According to Garrick, the ski acts as a lever, accentuating the effects of any twisting motion on the leg. Even a slow fall on a beginner's slope can produce a fracture. In fact, it often does. "The typical ski injury," says Garrick, "involves a woman around 18 to 20 who is just beginning. As she makes a turn maneuver on a gentle slope, she goes down in a slow, twisting fall. She feels something snap; she has fractured the shaft of her tibia and fibula, the two bones of the lower...
...civilization Sheridan was concerned about continues to advance. A recent report by the N.A.A.C.P. and Harvard's Center for Law and Education charged that federal funds appropriated for Indian education have been siphoned off for white schools. The discovery of immense oil deposits on Alaska's North Slope threatens to uproot thousands of Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians. In Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the buffalo have grown so numerous that the state allows hunting. A license to shoot buffalo costs $500. There are no discounts to Indians...
After weighing the needs of ecology and economy, the Interior Department last week issued a long-awaited report approving the proposed 800-mile oil pipeline running from Alaska's North Slope (estimated reserves: up to 10 billion bbl.) to Valdez on the state's southern coast. Compiled by Interior geologists, ecologists and engineers, the report called the oil "essential" to U.S. security, especially in light of the Middle East's political instability, and concluded that stiff regulations on the pipeline can "reduce foreseeable environmental costs to acceptable levels...