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  AGU Journal Highlights 29 July 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
At depths of 4-10 kilometers [2-6 miles], the fault is located 2 kilometers [one mile] east of its surface location, and may be responsible for previously unexplained seismic activity in that area, where, the authors say, the Hayward fault may directly connect deep underground with the Calaveras fault to the east.
The authors say the Tristan da Cunha hotspot, located about 780 kilometers [480 miles] west of the seamount, is probably too far away to be the cause of the volcanic activity responsible for the explosion.
While the cause of the eddies is not known, the authors speculate that friction between ocean currents and the sea floor may play a role in their formation.
www.agu.org /sci_soc/prrl/jh050729.html   (2834 words)

  
 28 Jan History: This Date
The Soviets responded with charges that the flight was a "gross provocation," and the incident was an ugly reminder of the heightened East-West tensions of the Cold War era.
According to the US military, the jet was on a training flight over West Germany and pilots became disoriented by a violent storm that led the plane to veer nearly 100 miles off course.
The Soviet attack on the plane provoked angry protests from the Department of State and various congressional leaders, including Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, who charged that the Soviets had intentionally downed the plane "to gain the offensive" in the aggressive Cold War maneuvering.
members.xoom.virgilio.it /all42day/history/h4jan/h4jan28.html   (10345 words)

  
 The Corner on National Review Online
On Thursday, rebels attacked Iraqi soldiers with machine-gun fire and mortar rounds in Salman Pak, 12 miles southeast of Baghdad, police said, adding that 14 policemen were killed and 65 were injured in the two-hour gunbattle.
Three Mile Island happened a month later, and nothing since--a sad combination of cowardice and lack of imagination.
John, while I generally share your sentiments on Iraq, I'm afraid Ramesh is right that even if we don't use a drop of oil, it matters a lot to us if Europe and Japan (and China) do.
www.nationalreview.com /thecorner/05_02_06_corner-archive.asp   (13918 words)

  
 Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use - S
rocket, especially from the earth's surface, as, the shot carried the rocket 200 miles.
The amount by which the sum of the three angles of a triangle on the surface of a
They are several hundred miles in diameter and extend outward 5000 to 10,000 miles.
roland.lerc.nasa.gov /~dglover/dictionary/s.html   (10691 words)

  
 Usenet Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Rural folks have tried it by running an insulated wire for a mile or more under the REA transmission lines and hooking it across a load.
Cases that have gone to court REA wins.
Prescott is only 15 miles away, and I'm on average ten degrees cooler, but wind direction affects that a lot.
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This comes from dam operations in China," said Chainarong Setthachua, director of South East Asia Rivers Network, an environmental group.
Figures from the Mekong River Commission (MRC), a joint Lao, Cambodian, Thai and Vietnamese body set up to oversee the health of the 3,000 mile waterway, confirm that in some places the river is flowing close to rock bottom.
Many of the MRC's monitoring stations on the Mekong's long journey from the glaciers of Tibet to the 'rice bowl' of southern Vietnam reveal it is well below levels recorded in 1993, itself the lowest year in living memory.
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