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...pitilessly disillusioned. Every volunteer was instructed by his site supervisor in a crash course about field methods, and learned to dig by trial and error. Field work was really manual labor. At one site during the final season, diggers pick-axed for nine hours through modern street pavement and bedrock every day before they could begin the usual troweling, which was far less tiring, but more painstaking work. To dig well required patience and exactitude, imagination and endurance...
...Jackson the day before as the kind of session that occurs between independently powerful men and-or women who have a good complete understanding. Clearly, the two men disagree on some issues, particularly specific aspects of foreign policy, but the foundation of their fundamental accord is rooted in the bedrock of their agreement on two basic points...
After all the other arguments are made, two bedrock questions remain, one profoundly moral, one eminently practical. Does the individual have the right to decide which laws or which wars he will support? If he does, can the U.S. Government-or any government-survive? The draft evaders and deserters claim that they are serving a higher law than the Selective Service Law-the law of morality. They might quote St. Thomas Aquinas. "Human law," he wrote, "does not bind a man in conscience, and if it conflicts with the higher law, human law should not be obeyed." That...
...lava-like boulder sitting on the rille's ledge. Then he tucked the piece under his arm like a football and galloped enthusiastically back to the rover. Scientists in Houston shared Scott's exuberance. He had apparently snared a valuable chunk of the moon's bedrock...
...water, devoid of atmosphere (some five per cent of the atmosphere of the moon is man-made). The level volcanic seas or mares of the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites cover much of the near side of the moon and provided the first lunar samples. Here the volcanic bedrock has been repeatedly hit by meteorites and broken up so that a layer of broken rock and dust from 6 to 20 feet deep lies on the surface. Some of these rocks have been lying on the surface directly exposed to space for several million years, while the top inch...