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Shrinking Underpinning. As water, oil and gas are pumped in increasing quantities from deeply drilled wells, the upper layers of clay, shale or silt often dry out and contract. The surface of the earth then subsides on its shrinking underpinning. California's San Joaquin Valley, pocked with irrigation wells, has sunk up to 29 ft. since intensive farming began there in the 1940s. Only recently have engineers finally managed to halt the subsidence by piping in water from elsewhere in the state...
...guys I only glimpsed as they yelled "jump in" were headed up toward Idaho to build a house--or so I heard from my travelling companions in the back--and it looked like a clear shot to Reno. The upper portion of the tail-gate was propped up and I thought maybe I'd get a view of California as it sped by backwards, but the State Troopers didn't agree. We were on the road for only ten minutes when they pulled up about two feet in back of the truck, cruising at a swift 60, and then they...
...upper classes only who were fearful, but even so there have been no reports of reprisals or executions in Vietnam. I don't think there will be much killing. The communists are in power now completely and they want to reorganize the society peacefully. All the messages we have received in this country say that the changes are proceeding well and the people seem happy. People hear of executions in Cambodia, but you cannot apply what happens there to Vietnam. It is a different situation altogether. And none of these supposed killings there are based on eyewitness reports. They...
...fury. Then as suddenly as they began, Altena and Bennik stop. The dichotomy of solo and ensemble work emphasizes the aura of loneliness which Brown evokes in his solo passages. The piece finally ends with a slow restatement of theme and a despairing musical squiggle by Brown into the upper register...
James Taylor. From high school suicide attempts to heavy self-indulgence to smack, James Taylor has been exactly what a lot of unhappy and often upper-middle class were looking for. He's finished now, though--replaced by different brands of navel-gazing, and it's too bad about the introspective dead-end, because at times near the beginning of his career Taylor looked as though he might emerge as a talented guitar-picker who had a relaxed and down-home North Carolina road music. By the end the dentist's office radio stations were playing JT. Anyway, what...