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Though destructive, earthquakes are essential to life, the National Geographic says. Mountains are constantly eroding apd if they were not raised again by quakes, the world would become a uninhabitable place of stagnant seas and swamps. THRIFTY S«2— GET ON THE THRIFT-GO-ROUND BUY AND HOLD U-S.
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