Word: solidities
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...challenge of helping journalism define itself." A 1961 graduate of the school, she boasts an impressive set of journalistic credentials, including more than 20 years as a documentary producer for NBC News and public television, where she has had a long partnership with Bill Moyers. "She's a solid, substantive journalist with lots of integrity," says Professor Kenneth Goldstein. Equally important, Konner is said to be a good administrator who knows how to raise money. From her spot on the university board, she was acutely aware of what she calls the school's "noble search to find the Holy Grail...
...surface. Explains Dziewonski: "If it's a faulty lens, you're going to have a wrong image." By 1984 the Harvard group had assembled the first detailed map of the mantle ever published. Their data consisted of the patterns of earthquake-generated pressure waves that passed through the solid earth, moving faster through cooler regions of the mantle and more slowly through warmer areas...
...Harvard group found, for example, that pressure waves travel more quickly when moving parallel to the earth's axis than when they are perpendicular. That could be explained if the solid inner core were a crystal, in which waves would travel at different speeds along different axes, but molten iron is hardly crystalline. Instead, Don Anderson and his colleagues at Caltech's seismological lab postulated the existence of iron rain. Their theory: the polar regions of the core are slightly flattened and tend to be cooler than the equatorial regions. The heat exchange between the two areas may then result...
Although the key factor in the success of the Crimson crews is the talent and commitment of the rowers, Parker and the coaching staff have played a major role in forming these legions of rowers into a solid core of fast boats...
Pennoyer sees Harvard's offense moving to the forefront of the program in years to come. Freshman Mickey Cavouti and sophomore David Kramer will lead the offensive attack into the 1990s. Even without the Triple Towers, the defense, too, should remain solid, Pennoyer says. He'll be there on the sidelines to make sure...