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...thousand one? Can't say. Best Year is a retrospective exercise. A good year must have time to marinate in the memory and to establish its place in the comparative scheme of years. We'll know more later...
...about what to expect. But in the past 20 years, scientists on geological digs have found submerged forests along the coastline. Geologists use these discoveries to date past quakes, and because of this new evidence, we now know that there have been major northwestern earthquakes over the past couple thousand years. And that means, of course, that there will probably be another. So it's only lately that we've realized we've got a whopper on our doorstep...
...tundra for miles with megawatts of yellow industrial light. Steam belches from plants eight stories high; flames shoot from natural-gas flares; and bulldozers the size of houses grind back and forth along 500 miles of roads that link the 170 drilling sites along the coast. Five thousand men--and a few women--work here, pumping 1.3 million bbl. a day down the trans-Alaska pipeline. The scale of the facilities swallows them up, and the oil plants seem almost deserted...
...Jeff tells them that "as of right now, you are completely cut off from the outside world." Actually, they're on a 55,000-acre cattle station only a hundred miles or so west of the Queensland coast, over what's known as the Great Dividing Range. Travel another thousand miles or so further west and you'll be in the true center of Australia...
...hire an experimental physicist, you might need four or five thousand square feet," he said at University Hall after a faculty meeting...