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Tides are caused largely by the gravitational tug of the moon, which daily forces great upward and downward movement in the oceans. The pull of the distant sun also influences the tides, and when the orbits of the moon around the earth and the earth around the sun bring all three bodies roughly into line, the tidal changes are much larger than usual. These "spring" tides (named for the verb rather than the season) occur twice a month: when the moon is full and when it is new. Spring tides themselves may be driven to further extremes when the elliptical...
According to Revel's interpretation of the photos, the cell sprouts thin, veil-like folds along its forward edge-that is, in the direction of movement. These folds or ruffles grow upward, extend out like an arm and then drop to the surface, adhering firmly to it. Once the forward edge is anchored, the cell flows into and over the ruffles, almost as if it were pulling itself along. As the body of the cell moves over the folds, other ruffles grow along the cell's new leading edge, and in turn attach themselves to the surface. Thus...
...celluloid as in petroleum, value is determined by scarcity. From the '30s to the '50s, Hollywood produced hundreds of popular entertainments that audiences and critics considered standard fare. Now that the major studios have shrunk slowly in the West, the antique movies have been revalued upward. According to many film scholars and au-teurists, old Hollywood seems to have been an amalgam of quattrocento Florence and Periclean Greece...
Harris added that the upward trend in alienation and disenchantment was not a feature of Richard Nixon's presidency alone, but has been increasing since...
Ridge currents-winds deflected upward by ridges or cliffs-are less challenging. They are "ridden" on the windward side of a ridge or cliff. Waves are formed when a steady wind blows over a mountain and forms vast smooth currents of undulating air that may lift a glider to an altitude ten times higher than the mountain. The altitude record was made in 1961 when Paul Bikle soared in a Schweizer 1-23E from 3,964 ft. to 46,267 ft. in a wave over the Mojave Desert...