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Ewing
U.S. basketball player. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, the 7-ft (2-m 13-cm) Ewing had an outstanding collegiate career at Georgetown Univ. and was ranked no. 1 overall in the 1985 college draft. A center for the New York Knicks from 1985, he holds numerous team records and was selected as an NBA All-Star 11 times in 13 seasons. In 1999 he became the twelfth player in NBA history to score over 20,000 points and collect over 10,000 rebounds.
U.S. geophysicist. Born in Lockney, Texas, he taught many years at Columbia Univ. (1944-74) and also directed the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (1949-74). Studying the structure of the earth's crust and mantle, he made seismic refraction measurements in the Atlantic basins, along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and in the Mediterranean and Norwegian seas. In 1935 he took the first seismic measurements in open seas. He was among those who proposed that earthquakes are associated with the central oceanic rifts that encircle the globe, suggesting that sea-floor spreading may be worldwide and episodic in nature. In 1939 he took the first deep-sea photographs.
Lewinsky
U.S. White House intern. Born in San Francisco and raised in Beverly Hills, Cal., she began an internship at the White House in 1995, which led to a sexual relationship with Pres. W. Clinton. Transferred to the Pentagon in April 1996, she was befriended by a coworker, Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded telephone conversations about Lewinsky's affair with Clinton. In January 1998 Tripp turned the tapes over to Kenneth Starr for use as evidence that Clinton had committed perjury in denying the relationship in a sexual-harassment suit brought by Paula Jones. Lewinsky signed an affidavit denying the affair, but in July 1998 she accepted immunity in exchange for full disclosure, then testified before a grand jury.
meninges
Three fibrous membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord to protect the central nervous system. The pia mater, a very thin membrane, adheres to the surface of the brain and spinal cord. The subarachnoid space, containing cerebrospinal fluid, separates the pia mater from a second membrane, the arachnoid. Around the brain, fine filaments connect these two membranes, which are believed to be impermeable to fluid. The third membrane, the dura mater, is strong, thick, and dense. It envelops the arachnoid, covers the inside of the skull, and surrounds and supports the large venous channels carrying blood from the brain. Several septa divide it and support different parts of the brain. In the spine, the dura mater and the arachnoid mater are separated by the subdural space; the arachnoid and pia mater are separated by the subarachnoid space. The extradural space (between the dura mater and the wall of the vertebral canal) is the site of epidural anesthesia (see anesthesiology).
Penang
Island (pop., 1991: 1,100,000), Malaysia, off the NW coast of the Malay ...
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