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Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. Unlike most of the world’s volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth’s surface; on the contrary, many of them lie deep in the interior of a plate. Most of the hot spots move only slowly, and in some cases the movement of the plates past them has left trails of dead volcanoes. The hot spots and their volcanic trails are milestones that mark the passage of the plates. 1）Cigarette smoking burdens the heart and is one of the leading causes of heart attacks. 2 ）Serious health problems, in spite of medical advancement, still plague millions of Americans each year. 3 ）One of the most serious health problems, heart attack, could be controlled if people were willing to change their behavior. 1）A study of the sciences reveals many things about our history. 2 ）One early civilization in Central American, the Maya, was discovered by archeologists. 3 ）It is now known that the Mayans had many medical techniques similar to modern-day practices. 4 ）Archaeology, one branch of the sciences, attempts to reveal things about early civilizations. 1） Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm argue that their work gives a correct baseline, which future management efforts must take into account. They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the “shifting baseline.” The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its origi