Word: soils
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Clearly, the best solution would be to renew the U.N. mandate so the peacekeepers can stay right where they are. Croatia objects on the ground that their presence merely legitimizes a Serbian occupation of Krajina, stealing away 27% of Croatian soil. "If we let the U.N. stay forever, we'll have another Cyprus, and that's unacceptable," says Tudjman's spokesman, Jozo Curic...
...eight full cycles in one or another of a battery of 20 dishwashers; Lui's task is to examine each one for telltale signs of dirt. If she detects a speck, she must then decide just what sort of speck she has spotted. Is it gritty? Is it "medium soil" or "heavy soil"? When she runs through all the spoons, Lui turns to plates and cups and knives and glasses that have been emptied from the dishwashers, making the same inspections and rendering the same hairsplitting verdicts. She guesses she has made 30,000 such judgments in the past eight...
...prophecy is coming true. Fifty years ago last week, the Soviets opened the gates of Auschwitz, the Third Reich's most heinously efficient death camp, and discovered the full horror of Hitler's Final Solution. Yet today Jewish identity in Central Europe is taking root in the very soil on which the vast majority of the 6 million perished. The young are discovering their Jewish heritage. And they, in confirmation of the prophecy, are bringing Judaism back to the parents whose faith had been so ruthlessly stamped out by one dictatorship after another for a half-century...
...room---indeed, a pressing need--for a thoughtful re-consideration of President Harry S. Truman's decision to give the go-ahead to the Enola Gay and its terrible cargo 50 years ago. Might we have won the war without the bomb? Were the bombs dropped on Japanese soil intended primarily as a grotesque warning to Stalin? Did the atomic bomb create a unique sense of human despair from which we have yet to emerge...
Given all these vagaries, how can cities plan to withstand earthquakes? One cardinal rule probably ought to be, Do not build on filled land. Such areas are subject to a phenomenon called liquefaction. Quake vibrations rupture the surface, allowing water-saturated soil to rise up and turn what seemed to be solid ground into something like a quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross...