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SPINNING AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH.(Editorial)

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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 19960724
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Former readers of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar hoped they knew what lay beneath the planet's skin: a magma-lit world where humans in loincloths battled evil lizard men. Well, Columbia University researchers report that the Earth's inner core, with a temperature of 7,000 degrees, is spinning, spinning madly, spinning faster than the Earth itself. If there are creatures down there, they must be heat-resistant hamsters.

This is not the first Burroughs' yarn unraveled by frocked fun quenchers. Science's various disciplines inform us that the skies of Mars are not fleeted with ...

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