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...National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the atmosphere at mid-latitudes can undergo dramatic rearrangement. The result: a classic configuration called the Pineapple Express, in which the jet stream steers powerful cyclonic systems over warm waters near Hawaii, where they tank up with moisture before slamming into the West Coast. That is what happened around the first of the year, when back-to-back storms swept through California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Utah and then went on to savage Ohio...
...agents have exclusives, and they pocket a hefty 5%-to-7% commission on each sale. Today that clubby world is being shaken more and more by a handful of upstarts. Internet interlopers like LendingTree, along with regional discounters like Foxtons in the Northeast and CataList Homes on the West Coast, have been gaining traction with a new scenario--one that simplifies and shortens the process for buyers and offers sellers overdue relief on the commissions they must...
...concrete hole in the ground that reeks of chlorine. And resorts are only happy to oblige. So here are three of the best pools we've been lucky enough to paddle in lately. Bring your goggles to the Palazzo Sasso's pool in Ravello on Italy's Amalfi's coast, where you can check out the panorama of the coastline through underwater windows over 300 m above the Tyrrhenian Sea (opens in March; tel: [39-089] 818181; www.palazzosasso.com). The famously opulent Grand Wailea in Hawaii features pools and waterslides for swimmers of all ages and the world's only water...
SOUNDING THE ALARM For residents of the Pacific Northwest coast, the jolt of an earthquake would be the first signal that they should head for higher ground People too far away to feel the quake would be alerted by sirens or broadcast warnings, thanks to??a 26-nation network of seismic, tidal and sea-level monitors...
Among the first international aid workers to reach ground zero on the Indonesian island of Sumatra were the doctors and nurses of MSF. When they arrived at the one functioning hospital in Sigli, on the east coast, there was only a single, volunteer surgeon on hand. "Our hospital was crippled," says Dr. Taufik Mahdi, director of the 35-bed unit. "Most of our doctors and nurses were too traumatized to work or left to look for loved ones missing after the tsunami." That first day the MSF team performed six operations, and it hasn't stopped since. "The minute...