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If you want to live longer, be healthier, earn more, move to Monmouthshire; The birthplace of Henry V comes top in quality-of-rural-living index.(News)
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Byline: Robin Turner
PEOPLE in the county of Monmouthshire have the best quality of life in rural Wales, research claimed today.
A new survey released by the Halifax Estate Agency chain has found residents of Monmouthshire are healthier, live longer and get fatter pay packets than anyone else in rural Wales.
And they also have the biggest houses, with their homes boasting an average of six rooms, and the most expensive property.
The birthplace of King Henry V, the county with its picturesque valleys and rivers and "chocolate-box" towns ...
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NASA EARTH SCIENCE:MARCIA MCNUTT
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony
; ...Within those mission areas, projects compete with other like projects, but it would be unfair to...high risk, long-lead time projects. Through experience, we...by the large, long-term project by respecting the percentage...lesson the hard way through the Mohole Project in the 1960s. ...
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Peek into the earth.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...began in 1958 and ended in 1966. "Project Mohole" was to be Earth sciences' answer...wins 'inner space' race Project Mohole's goal was to reach the point...thinnest on the ocean floor, Project Mohole began drilling off the coast of...
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Discovery of "megamullions" reveals gateways into the ocean crust and upper mantle.
Magazine article from: Oceanus
; ...the 1950s and resulted in the "Mohole project," whose objective was to sample...Earth's crust and mantle. The Mohole project proved to be ahead of its...several thousand meters of water. Mohole was succeeded beginning in the late...
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WILLARD BASCOM, A PIONEER OF DEEP-SEA EXPLORATION
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...California Coastal Water Research Project, died Sept. 20 at his home...organized and directed Project Mohole, the pioneering attempt to...Mr. Bascom detailed the Mohole experience, later abandoned...the Sea: The Story of the Mohole Project." The many-faceted...
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Experts Hope Rocks Unravel Earth's Secrets
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...recovery is the culmination of a project that began in 2002, when an international...1950s, an ambitious effort dubbed Project Mohole was an attempt to go inward at the...complete, Congress cut off the money. Mohole was a dry hole. "We probably know...
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Drilling shortcut penetrates Earth's mantle. (National Science Foundation's Ocean Drilling Program)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...1950s, when leading oceanographers conceived "Mohole," a megascience project aimed at drilling straight through the 6-kilometer...cost overruns and political problems sank the Mohole project soon after it began. To drill through the entire...
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GEOPHYSICIST WHO HELPED ESTABLISH THE NATION'S RESEARCH FLEET
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Asian Offshore Areas (CCOP) from 1976 to 1991. Project Mohole was established in the mid-1950s an attempt to retrieve...was still controversial. Shor served on some of the Mohole Project's committees and scheduled several expeditions to...
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An abridged history of deep ocean drilling. (25 Years of Ocean Drilling)
Magazine article from: Oceanus
; ...of this tumultuous period. The Mohole As near as can be reconstructed...successfully. Thus, the AMSOC Mohole project was born. Willard Bascom (a specialist...staff) became majordomo of the project and immediately set off to prove...
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SCIENTISTS DELVE INTO SECRETS OF THE OCEAN'S CRUST, ACHIEVE SCIENTIFIC 'FIRST'
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...was the JOIDES Resolution; the project was managed by the Integrated Ocean...over 40 years, since the days of Project MoHole," said Damon Teagle of the National...earthquakes and volcanoes. Project MoHole, begun in the 1950s, endeavored...
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He laid groundwork for plate tectonics.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...research vessels, was a principal in the abortive Project Mohole to drill a hole deep into the Earth, and played a...massive mountain ranges . In the 1950s, he joined Project Mohole, which was designed to retrieve a sample of material...
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