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...taking into account such factors as gravity, impact shock, melting and vaporization. They also created models with a finer level of detail than earlier efforts. Finally, after a number of tries, they arrived at a scenario in which an object, the size of Mars but with only one-tenth the Earth's mass, striking at a highly oblique angle, ejected enough debris from itself and our planet's iron-deficient outer layers to form the moon, which contains very little iron. Left behind was an Earth roughly the size it is today...
...over practically the entire park. Another key number is causing consternation: the Teamsters promised Democrats that 700,000 jobs would be created by the drilling. That figure came from an 11-year-old American Petroleum Institute study. Other economists predict the job growth will be less than a tenth that number...
...jobs, that number comes from an 11-year-old study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute that economists complain wildly inflates the employment potential. "It's just absurd," says Eban Goodstein, an economist at Lewis and Clark College, who predicts the real job growth will be less than one-tenth that number...
...While members of Sonic Youth now drive Volvos and divide their time between Manhattan and country homes, the people who accumulated real wealth as a result of the American indie rock saga of the `80s were either in Nirvana or married to people in Nirvana. For that reason, the tenth anniversary of Nevermind comes attended by unceremonious squabbling. Courtney Love, Cobain's famed widow, is engaged in a court battle with bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl over the rights to the Nirvana catalog, and that lawsuit looks as if it will prevent a Nevermind box set from being...
...mysterious behavior - mysterious for a distinguished and successful writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, to brag and tell casually self-glorifying lies to his students, like a drunk maundering on his tenth beer at the Blarney Stone. When I heard about Ellis' concoctions, I wanted, out of loyalty, to find a way to dismiss them or excuse them...