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From ground level to about 16 feet down, the earth beneath the Abri Pataud is a series of thin layers, like a plank of plywood. Each layer, or stratum, is half-an-inch or so thick. Many of these strata constitute "occupation layers": buried within each are flint and bone objects that accumulated as the layer slowly accumulated during geological history. Some of the layers represent a year's occupation of the Abri Pataud; others contain the relics of 10, 20 or more years. A few yield no bones or man-made objects for they were laid down while...
...objective realm, Lois Swirnoff of the Institute for Advanced Study has entered a most enjoyable pile of red and purple strata entitled "Geological Landscape." Otherwise, with few exceptions, Radcliffe artists are apparently relegating their abstractions to gen-ed and philosophy papers...
When geophysicists tag the rock strata under the ocean, they call the ocean water the first layer. On the bottom is the second layer: sediment and sedimentary rock averaging 1 km. thick. Below it lies the third layer, which seismic waves have proved to be made of unusually heavy rock. The third layer is normally unreachable, but scientists making a seismic survey in 1959 got hints that it might be exposed on the sides of the Puerto Rico Trench. In 1960 Dr. Earl Hays of Woods Hole took photographs showing fractured rock on the trench's north wall...
Turning to the education of the upper strata, she said that "the differences between a good public high school and some of our very best private schools are much less than one would think." And, about the economic value of college diplomas, she said "We are becoming a degree-ridden country...
...that the majority in the Diet did not represent the "will of the people," revealing their contempt for the competence of the voters to choose. Nevertheless, unless the intellectuals are very careful in approaching the subject of "enlightening the voting public," they will further alienate themselves from the common strata of Japanese society. After the hypertheoretical per- spective of the intellectual results in a lack of realism in answering more concrete questions of daily life. For example, one of the most persistently repeated words during the demonstrations was "Doutralism." Enchanting though the expression was, we felt discouraged each time...