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...tail wags the dog," the tail referring to patterns of seismic activity that appear to presage large tremors. (He does not try to forecast smaller events, like the earthquake swarms that rumbled beneath Mount St. Helens before it erupted last week, or the more significant quakes that perturbed Parkfield, Calif.) At first he and his colleagues looked for strong quakes that had already occurred, then scrolled backward through years of seismic data. More recently they have been working with current seismic records as well. Their computer programs home in on small quakes that occur in temporal and spatial proximity, linking...
...portals, with 5.3 million visitors a month to its job and real estate listings, for-sale postings and personals? How has it grown exponentially from a narrow base in San Francisco and New York City to 45 cities, from Orlando, Fla., to St. Louis, Mo., to Fresno, Calif.? How has it managed to spread its wings abroad in Canada and Britain, with Australia next on its horizon? How has it managed to do all that--when other, more capitalized businesses have withered away...
...debt and $20 million in annual losses. Among other problems, the league spent itself into oblivion, having budgeted $40 million to finance its first five years yet laid out $100 million in the first three. Says industry consultant David Carter, founder of Sports Business Group, based in Redondo Beach, Calif.: "The WUSA blew through money like drunken dotcommers...
...joins our all-star team after taking No. 1 USC to the brink of defeat (31-28) a week ago. Coincidentally, Edwards formed one-half of a lethal Edwards-to-Edwards combination with The Crimson’s star wideout Brian Edwards in high school in Los Gatos, Calif...
...results over time are not glamorous. According to Dr. Carol Frey, an orthopedic surgeon in Manhattan Beach, Calif., 76% of American women suffer from foot deformities or afflictions such as bunions, hammertoes, pinched nerves, calluses and ingrown toenails as a result of wearing inappropriate shoes. More than 50% of U.S. women are limping around with a bunion--a bony bump at the joint of the big toe. Compare that with a rate of less than 10% for men and 5% among unshod populations like Fiji Islanders. "There's nothing wrong with the human foot," says Frey. "It does not need...