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As the nation’s 21 million college students end their summer breaks and flood university campuses around the country, they arrive with more than just armfuls of dorm room posters and twin-extra-long sheets. By nearly all accounts, the current crop of undergrads is among the most driven and focused to grace the hallowed halls of higher ed.  A recent UCLA study found that 86% of freshman said college is very important in order to get a good job, and 73% indicated that they value their degree’s ability to help them “make more money.

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All this may help investigators find traces of MH370. It might even yield more clues about exactly what happened to the stricken aircraft after radio contact was lost shortly after take-off.
A lot depends on the contour mapping. This will allow the towfish to be operated safely in a part of the ocean that had remained largely unexplored. The mapping was carried out by Zhu Kezhen, a Chinese naval ship, and Fugro Equator, a specialist vessel contracted from Fugro, a surveying company based in the Netherlands. The ships are fitted with hull-mounted multi-beam sonar systems. Sonar has long been used to measure the depth of the ocean by transmitting acoustic pulses and listening for the delay in their echoes from the sea floor. The multi-beam systems used by the survey ships allow much wider areas of the ocean floor to be covered in less time.

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FINDING two previously unknown volcanoes would normally be cause for celebration by those mapping the sea floor in a remote and little-explored area. But not when the discovery is part of the effort to find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The Boeing 777 disappeared early in the morning of March 8th on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 passengers and crew on board. Despite an intense air and sea search of the Indian Ocean to the west of Australia, where the aircraft is believed to have come down, no sign of it has been found.

That may soon change, thanks to a confluence of breakthroughs. New analysis of satellite data has narrowed the area in which the aircraft might have come down from some 600,000 square kilometres to a 60,000 square kilometre strip of ocean, 650km long and 93km wide (see map). A detailed survey of the sea bed in that area has revealed its contours (including the two volcanoes). This “contour mapping” will be used to launch a new and more intensive search with ships pulling through the water sophisticated sonar devices known as “towfish”.

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