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...actors will spend the next three to four weeks getting to know their roles and meeting with each other, and the two organizers hope to start taping interviews by December. The culmination of the project will occur at a post-mortem showing of Boone's artwork, to which all his friends will be invited...
...Cubans don't have all of these benefits available to them, mostly because U.S. policy has denied it. The hard currency will eventually dry up. Trade doesn't occur now, and no one knows if it ever will. But there has never been any sort of attack from either side, and given this static situation, it is difficult to show that the Cubans are being hurt by the American presence...
...plates carrying two continental masses collide, for example, the crust buckles, creating craggy mountain ranges like the Himalayas. If they grind past each other, as the Pacific and North American plates do under California's San Andreas fault, friction locks them together. Every so often, abrupt slippages occur and the earth around them shudders in what geologists call strike-slip quakes. Still another kind of tectonic phenomenon, the meeting of an oceanic and a continental plate, is responsible for the Mexican disaster...
...kind of seismic party line, one earthquake may signal that another could occur; sites that lie between past gaps hit by recent tremors are the areas most likely to rupture next, rather the way buttons popping on a shirt put greater pressure on the buttons still intact. Noting that earthquakes in the 20th century have periodically shaken surrounding regions, geologists knew that Mexico's Michoacan gap--quiescent for many decades--could not hold out forever. "Wherever stress builds up for a long time in a seismic gap," says David Simpson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, "something...
...geologists are correct, more major earthquakes are in store--and soon --for the Pacific coastal areas of Mexico and neighboring Guatemala. McNally believes the region could be hit by as many as five earthquakes in the 8.0 Richter range during the next five years. Precisely when the temblors will occur is another matter. Geologists are still restricted to long-term predictions, parceled out by the year or decade rather than the month or day. But by closely monitoring quake zones, they hope to find subtle clues that will lead to more precise and reliable forecasts. Keiiti Aki, a geophysicist...