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Though all such otherworldly erupting is dramatic, it amounts to little more than geological pyrotechnics. On Europa, however, tidal heating may have produced something truly remarkable. The formations Galileo spotted last week are definitely icebergs, though less jagged-looking than those found on Earth. Astronomers don't know why Europan ice and terrestrial ice would not fracture the same way, but they admit they have no experience with the kinds of cracks that are produced when an entire world is frozen over. More to the point, the bergs are small, rising just 300 to 600 ft. above the surrounding...
Lamm said that Americans face a "red scare" of a different sort than that imagined by former senator Joe McCarthy. Alluding to the size of the federal bureaucracy, Lamm said that Americans are drowning in a "tidal wave...
That deal was the catalyst for a tidal wave of change which, in the last five years, has brought an all-star team of Afro-American scholars to Harvard, earned the department national commendations and could place it in the position to affect American social policy on race and welfare...
Exploding for six goals and leading the attack for the Crimson was top-scoring sophomore Michael Zimmerman. Not far behind Zimmerman was junior driver Andy Davis, who added five goals to the tidal wave which swamped the Engineers...
...face masks painfully against foreheads and chins. Visibility was limited to a few feet, but the visions were nightmarish. Scattered shards of the doomed airliner sprouted myriad electric wires and cords waving medusa-like in the undersea currents. Some of the bodies, when discovered, swayed gently to the same tidal rhythms...