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...game after dropping four consecutive contests to start the year. It came as a great surprise, then, when Princeton pushed the Crimson to the brink in Cambridge last October, tying the game with a late fourth-quarter score, and falling only on a Garret Schires touchdown pass on the tail end of the overtime shootout...
Keilis-Borok calls his approach "tail wags the dog," the tail referring to patterns of seismic activity that appear to presage large tremors. (He does not try to forecast smaller events, like the earthquake swarms that rumbled beneath Mount St. Helens before it erupted last week, or the more significant quakes that perturbed Parkfield, Calif.) At first he and his colleagues looked for strong quakes that had already occurred, then scrolled backward through years of seismic data. More recently they have been working with current seismic records as well. Their computer programs home in on small quakes that occur...
...Mawurndjul's family mine a pure white clay, believed to be the essence of Ngalyod, which forms the foundation for his paintings. In recent years, Mawurndjul has allowed ever larger swathes of delek to shine through, as bright as the sun or the flick of a rainbow serpent's tail. Perhaps viewers should wear sunglasses to the show. Captured here is the white-hot flash of an art in motion; who knows where it might go next...
...putting together an aggressive plan that includes rousting people suspected of supporting violent extremists. Federal lawmen may jail some who have committed minor crimes or immigration violations and question or tail others-- if only to let them know the government can find them. These proposals have provoked sharp debate in the FBI. Some agents say such tactics could backfire by alienating Muslims whose help the bureau needs in identifying suspicious people. Agents have been asking law-abiding émigrés to report strangers who spout radical rhetoric or who have large sums of money and no jobs; those who rent...
...This is about humiliating [Bush] and making him leave with his tail between his legs,†he said earning the loudest applause of the night...