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...eruption--which would force an unnecessary evacuation of half a million people for weeks--is right behind the fear of not forcing people to flee when the big one hits, explains Franco Barberi, a top volcanologist and the head of the National Commission on Major Risks. "You need to distinguish risks," says Barberi, noting that a full evacuation would probably take three days...
...friend. How are you doing now? I'm doing great. I was able to get past all of that without having to compromise what I love most, which is my music and taking care of my family. I went through the thick and the thin. It all helped me distinguish who my real friends were...
...many. But with 62 percent of Americans thinking the Iraq War was a mistake in 2006, and George W. Bush’s popularity at the close of his presidency only 22 percent, it now appears that Rene Gonzalez was ahead of his time. While many still morally distinguish Iraq and Afghanistan, Gonzalez’s majority of one in 2004 became the Democratic majority...
According to the Honolulu Police Department, 10,605 cars were broken into in 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available. The numbers don't distinguish between rental cars and privately owned vehicles, but police department spokesperson Michelle Yu says that thieves most often target cars parked near popular tourist attractions, knowing that visitors often carry cameras, money, jewelry and other things worth stealing...
Shawna L. Sinnott ’10, a Marine ROTC midshipman, said she believed the results showed that the current generation is better able to distinguish individual ROTC members from the political issue of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”—the controversial policy that bars openly gay individuals from serving in the armed forces...