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ethics
02-01-2005, 01:11 PM
New Paper (the Examiner) and one of the writers for the OpEd is Ben Bova. :)

He has a good article to start with. http://www.dcexaminer.com/articles/2005/02/01//opinion/ben_bova/01bova.txt

Some call her Gaia, an ancient Greek name for Mother Earth.

Last month Gaia shrugged: Along 1,000 miles of the Indian Ocean's floor, a split in the underlying rocks rose about ten yards. The resulting Richter 9.0 earthquake sent a 50-foot-high tsunami racing across the Indian Ocean to crash ashore in Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, even the eastern coast of Africa, more than 1,000 miles away. More than 175,000 people have been killed, and the death toll is still rising...

Biker
02-02-2005, 01:12 PM
Dammit. I had planned on coming back to this to read the article and it's no longer on their site. I'm NOT impressed. :vmad:

SixofNine
02-02-2005, 01:19 PM
Dammit. I had planned on coming back to this to read the article and it's no longer on their site. I'm NOT impressed. :vmad:

It's extinct. :lol:

Brian

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