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... miles per second . This one broke north and south . In some places the slip was just 6 or 7 feet , but elsewhere the ground lurched fully 16 feet in a snap . The fault broke for 270 miles , from Shelter Cove , way up in the redwood ...
... miles per second . This one broke north and south . In some places the slip was just 6 or 7 feet , but elsewhere the ground lurched fully 16 feet in a snap . The fault broke for 270 miles , from Shelter Cove , way up in the redwood ...
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... miles downstream . ConocoPhillips origi- nally touted it as a model of high - tech , low- impact oil development with no permanent roads and the use of directional drilling to tap 40,000 acres beneath two drill sites that would disturb ...
... miles downstream . ConocoPhillips origi- nally touted it as a model of high - tech , low- impact oil development with no permanent roads and the use of directional drilling to tap 40,000 acres beneath two drill sites that would disturb ...
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... miles from their own nests and back again in a day to find enough food to feed their young . hundred miles from breeding colonies - a com- mute made easier by the ability to soar and glide rather than flap continuously . Nearly all ...
... miles from their own nests and back again in a day to find enough food to feed their young . hundred miles from breeding colonies - a com- mute made easier by the ability to soar and glide rather than flap continuously . Nearly all ...
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Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
Glen Canyon Revealed 64 A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest | 72 |
COVER U S soldiers patrol devastated Market Street in San Francisco | 120 |
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