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Designing or, worse, retrofitting buildings to withstand the tremors is extremely expensive. Nonetheless, recent efforts have been in some ways a heartening success--and in other ways a shocking failure...
Given all these vagaries, how can cities plan to withstand earthquakes? One cardinal rule probably ought to be, Do not build on filled land. Such areas are subject to a phenomenon called liquefaction. Quake vibrations rupture the surface, allowing water-saturated soil to rise up and turn what seemed to be solid ground into something like a quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross...
...evidenced by the recommendation of the committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53. This committee, which was formed by President Rudenstine to study the ROTC issue, had recommended that the University sever all ties with ROTC. Rudenstine fortunately disagreed, but who knows how long he can withstand the political pressure to completely eliminate ROTC...
...great fear of democratic politicians is that Russia's fledgling institutions of free government are too fragile to withstand a draining, divisive war. Yeltsin and his onetime democratic allies are already increasingly isolated and on the defensive against the tacit "red-brown" alliance of communists and ultranationalists. If democratic forces now become wholly estranged from the President, the odds increase that military factions disgruntled with Yeltsin's handling of the Chechen crisis might stage a long- predicted military coup, neatly disguised as a necessary crackdown to prosecute the war. But the army itself is also divided; some officers far higher...
Nixon, while not especially healthy, could certainly withstand an assassination attempt made with a plastic...