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...just 15 seconds - but the damage caused by the 6.9-magnitude quake was impressive. It killed 63 people, injured thousands and caused $7 billion worth of damage throughout California's Bay Area, including major destruction to the Oakland Bay Bridge. "It was a good sized shock," says Peter Yanev, chairman of Risk Solutions International and the author of Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country. (See pictures of San Francisco...
...also develop insulin resistance, hypertension, high cholesterol, sleep apnea and orthopedic problems and go into early puberty. "Children are vulnerable. If they're given food and told to finish what's on the plate, they'll eat it, and without exercise get bigger and bigger," says Tam Fry, chairman of Britain's Child Growth Foundation, who is lobbying obesity experts to consider overnutrition a form of child abuse. (Read "Mother's Obesity Raises Risk of Birth Defects...
...Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul A. Volcker harshly criticized financial engineering and emphasized the need to return to a more production-based economy in a speech last night at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics...
Volcker—who also serves as chairman of the newly formed Economic Recovery Advisory Board—spoke before a packed audience and fielded questions about the state of the economy...
According to Christopher J. Hollyday ’11, the chairman of the IOP’s forum committee, between 200 and 300 people attended the event, which was simultaneously broadcast on CSPAN’s Web site...