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The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star serve southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, including Virginia’s most populous city, Virginia Beach, as well as Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Suffolk. The papers provide in-depth coverage of naval and military topics and related industries, such as shipbuilding and repairing. The area is the home of Norfolk Naval Base, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Langley Air Force Base, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Norshipco, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Norfolk Southern, and C&S/Sovran.
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| Dates Covered: | September 1990 to the present |
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| File Size: | 671,987 records as of July 2008 |
| Update Frequency: | Daily The Ledger - Star ceased publication in 1995 |
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| PAPERSVA | Virginia Newspapers |
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| 09191060 | |
| /TI | ROCKS ON MARS? WE HAVE QUITE A FEW ALREADY - TRY ARIZONA |
| VIRGINIAN-PILOT (Norfolk, VA) (VP) - Thursday, July 10, 1997 | |
| AU= | By: Guy Friddell |
| ED=, /SH, SH=, PG= | Edition: FINAL Section: LOCAL Page: B2 |
| Word Count: 509 | |
| MEMO: | |
| /ME | TYPE: Column |
| TEXT: | |
| /LP, /TX | So we spend $16 billion to land a golf cart on Mars and what do we learn? |
| That rocks up there are very much like rocks down here. | |
| Even more surprising, we learn that geologists are highly emotional | |
| people, something nobody except their families suspected before. | |
| Talk with your ordinary geologist and you'd swear he had nothing but | |
| rocks in his head - no, no, that's not fair - on his mind. It is like being | |
| in Geology 301. His chat is apt to be dry as the dust that the golf cart, | |
| equipped with some kind of robotic stethoscope, found up there, much as | |
| Martians would confront down here if they landed a golf cart in Los | |
| Angeles. | |
| To do geologists justice, keep in mind that single-minded individuals | |
| add most to the sum of knowledge in this old world, as must be so among | |
| Martians if scientists look up from eyeing rocks long enough to see if | |
| there are any. Consider, too, how much better off we'd be if more of us | |
| studied rocks, not war. | |
| Mars is given largely to rocks. So many haven't been seen since the | |
| 1930s when mothers were seized en masse with a craze to create rock gardens | |
| in back yards. When done, the dry and tumbled beds resembled long-ago | |
| glacial flows. | |
| For years, touring Arizona, people have said, ``Hey, this looks like | |
| Mars!'' Should it have come as a surprise then that Mars, close up, looks | |
| like, sure enough, Arizona? | |
| Scientists are endowing rocks with names and personalities. ``Here,'' | |
| one said, ``is Yogi Bear. Notice ears atop its head and a pointy nose. And | |
| there,'' he added, gesturing at a plain surface on its alleged head, ``is | |
| where the eyes would be.'' | |
| It's as if we're back in kindergarten under care of a teacher bent on | |
| arousing a sense of wonder in us. | |
| Scientists are giddy with success. ``We did the engineering, but I think | |
| the people of Earth willed Pathfinder to life,'' said one. ``Thank you, | |
| people of Earth. And I promise not to cry.'' Then he cried. | |
| Another said spinoffs from the trek through space would transform our | |
| lives, even promising better automobiles. He'd best stick to the thrills of | |
| the quest, or we may think of what $16 billion could do applied directly to | |
| ills on Earth. | |
| A billion to scientists at the National Institutes of Health to erase | |
| cancer. Another for them to allay heart disease. A third to redeem the | |
| ghettoes. A fourth for science to harness solar energy and spare oil | |
| reserves. A couple of billion for schools. And so on down the list. | |
| As rewarding as it may be to gladden the hearts of scientists in | |
| learning that the solar system is pretty much of a piece with the same | |
| rocks and that sure enough, as we had known, Mars used to be awash with | |
| life-breeding waters, we could help work wonders by putting that money to | |
| work first in the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on | |
| Earth. | |
| Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc. | |
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| None | None | All Basic Index Fields | Word | S MARS(S)ROCKS |
| /CP | CP | Caption3 | Word | S PHOTOS/CP |
| /DE | DE | Descriptor1 | Word & Phrase |
S SPACE/DE S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE |
| /LP | LP | Lead Paragraph3 | Word | S MARS(S)ROCKS/LP |
| /ME | ME | Memo3 | Word | S WIRETAP/ ME |
| /SH | SH | Section Heading2 | Word | S LOCAL/SH |
| /TI | TI | Headline | Word | S MARS(S)ROCKS/TI |
| /TX | TX | Text | Word | S PATHFINDER?/TX |
1 Not available in all PAPERS files.
2 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.
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| AU= | AU | Byline | Word | S AU=(GUY(1N)FRIDDELL) |
| DL= | DL | Dateline | Phrase | S DL=WASHINGTON |
| DY= | DY | Publication Day1 | Phrase | S DY=THURSDAY |
| ED= | ED | Edition | Phrase | S ED=FINAL |
| JC= | JC | Newspaper Code4 | Phrase | S JC=VP |
| JN= | JN | Newspaper Name | Phrase | S JN=VIRGINIAN-PILOT? |
| MO= | MO | Publication Month1 | Phrase | S MO=JULY |
| PD= | PD | Publication Date | Phrase | S PD=19970710 |
| PG= | PG | Page Number | Phrase | S PG=B2 |
| PY= | PY | Publication Year | Phrase | S PY=1997 |
| RG= | RG | U.S. Region5 | Phrase | S RG=SOUTHEAST |
| SF= | SF | Special Feature1,6 | Phrase | S SF=PHOTO |
| SH= | SH | Section Heading2 | Phrase | S SH=LOCAL |
| None | SO | Source Information7 | ||
| ST= | ST | Newspaper State | Phrase | S ST=VA |
| UD= | None | Update | Phrase | S UD=9999 |
| None | WD | Word Count |
4 Newspaper code is also shown following the newspaper name in the Source Information field.
5 Regions are: NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST, CENTRAL, and WEST. Region does not display in predefined formats.
6 Special Feature may indicate the presence of PHOTO, GRAPH, DRAWING, CHART, TABLE, DIAGRAM, and/or MAP in the original article, not necessarily online.
7 Includes Newspaper Name, Publication Date, Edition, Section Heading, and Page Number.
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| /LONG | Word Count of 1,000 words or more | S S8/LONG |
| /SHORT | Word Count of less than 1,000 words | S S9/SHORT |
| /YYYY | Publication Year | S S2/2002 |
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| All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. | RANK PY S3 |
| User-defined formats can be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. | TYPE S3/TI,PD/1-5 |
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| 2 | -- | Full Record except Text |
| 3 | Medium | Bibliographic Citation and Word Count |
| 4 | -- | Bibliographic Citation, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count1 |
| 5 | -- | Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count |
| 6 | Short | Title, Publication Date, and Word Count |
| 7 | Long | Bibliographic Citation and Text |
| 8 | Free | Title, Indexing, and Word Count |
| 9 | Full | Full Record |
| K | -- | KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats |
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