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...inside the earth through fractures in its crust. As the magma presses into new regions, it raises the earth on top of it. At the same time, land some distance away may gradually subside to fill the area vacated by the molten rock. That could account for a six-inch drop in the level of the resort island of Ischia, only ten miles offshore...
...earth scientist's dreamland, Afar sits at the meeting place of three such giant rift systems. Two of these cleave the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and geophysicists think that both bodies of water are gradually being widened into oceans at the rate of perhaps an inch or so a year as the lava pours out of the rifts...
...Friday, senior Skip Hare had come within an inch of his best career effort while capturing the long jump with a 24??? performance and classmate Bob Galliers had placed fifth...
...firms of Mannesmann and Thyssen will deliver 1,200,000 tons of 56-inch steel pipe, designed to withstand extreme cold, to Russia. The Soviets need it for pipelines to open the natural gas reserves of Siberia, the world's richest. In return, the Soviets will send to West Germany 52 billion cubic meters of gas over 20 years, starting in 1973. To enable the Soviets to pay for the pipe before they deliver the gas, a consortium of 17 West German banks will lend them $328 million at 6.25% interest-practically foreign-aid terms. A West German firm...
Chokel is overburdened with work. He puts in 20 to 25 hours each week for the HarBus and has trouble getting reporters to work for him, even though they are paid 50 cents per column-inch. The truth is that in the high-powered tense atmosphere often found at the Business School, time can be a very expensive commodity. "There are a lot of articles I consider real trash in here but I feel we're doing the best job we can," Chokel readily admits...