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...Angeles logged a record 17 in. of rain over a 15-day stretch (bringing precipitation for the season to a record 22.51 in.), while a mudslide in nearby La Conchita killed 10 residents and swallowed 15 houses. To the north, around Lake Tahoe, roads and cars all but disappeared beneath as much as 19 ft. of newly fallen snow...
...highly contagious disease that can spread rapidly, measles was responsible for more than half of the deaths in the Sudan refugee crisis in 1985. Waldman's team confirmed the cases and had scores vaccinated before the end of the day. "We were on top of the trends occurring beneath the radar screen," he says. "The cooperation we got was terrific...
...found dead, stabbed through the heart in a doorway of her bungalow. Alive and clinging to her was Ava, 21/2, her daughter, who had spent 36 hours alone with the body. The killer had stabbed Worthington so powerfully that the blade had left a mark in the floorboards beneath her. It appeared that Ava had tried to tend to her mother, dabbing her face with a washcloth. "Mommy fell down," she sobbingly told the person who found...
...docudrama Pompeii: The Last Day (Discovery, Jan. 30, 9 p.m. E.T.) did not set out to be a VSDM. That changed with the Indian Ocean tsunami, when entire habitations were, like the Roman city in 79 A.D., erased by a rumbling from beneath the earth's crust. A BBC co-production (as is Dirty War), Pompeii gives a scientific blow-by-blow of Vesuvius' eruption. More interestingly--and with more resonance today--it tries to tell the disaster's human story...
...relatively quiet ever since--which can be interpreted as good news or bad, given a geological record showing that the time between Cascadian tsunamis ranges from 200 to 1,000 years. Canadian geophysicists are still puzzling over a series of rhythmic tremors they identified a couple of years ago beneath the floor of Puget Sound. They don't know what caused them, but they think the tremors may be associated with rising stress along the fault. A bit of subterranean rustling doesn't mean that a great earthquake is imminent, of course, but the tsunami warning signs on local beaches...