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...that have been deformed by quakes - that helps give them a better sense of how often earthquakes hit and when the next one may come. Scientists still can't predict earthquakes the way they might predict a hurricane, but thanks to this richer data, they are getting a little closer. "We are getting better at understanding the probabilities of earthquakes," says Lucy Jones, chief scientist of the USGS's Earthquake Hazards Program...
Over the years, day-care and child-care centers have become a security blanket for millions of working parents who need their children looked after during the day. But as an H1N1 epidemic draws closer, these centers look less like protective bastions and more like potential H1N1 incubators...
Such long-range attacks don’t materialize out of spontaneous witticism. Geoff described the summer of background reading, learning everything there is to know about the nuclear issue, and then as school got closer, beginning to zero in on specific arguments, searching for large quotes from obscure magazines, piecing the quotes together to make the case, then organizing them in files and sharing them among the team...
Unlike Lindsay Lohan, professors occasionally try to keep their private lives out of the public eye. But FM wants to bring you closer and has gone behind the scenes to visit professors in their homes, exploring everything from their closets to their iPods. Without further ado, FM Cribs presents our first host—Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Steven A. Pinker...
...much has changed since you first started out as a reporter in the 1940s. What do you miss most? We were much closer to the President back then. We could walk down the street without 10 circles of security around. Now it's more difficult...