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...week and so on. But the daily price is actually set - or discovered, in economic parlance - on the futures exchange. In late June and early July, speculators in oil futures battled one another, suspecting that a top was near. In the ensuing weeks, oil would come crashing down to earth as traders everywhere - including hedge funds, banks and pension funds - unwound their positions. And as SemGroup demonstrated, getting the timing wrong on this great unwind can have catastrophic results. (Read "Iraq's Pain at the Pump...
...very far away, is finally possible - but only if millions of us demand it and finally force our government to do its job." The article went on to direct readers to a host of advocacy groups pushing various liberal agendas, including Iraq Veterans Against the War, Friends of the Earth, the ACLU and National Coalition for the Homeless...
Earthquakes can't be stopped; they are a natural process that occurs when too much stress builds up between convergent tectonic plates under the earth's surface. The plates suddenly slip and the ground rumbles with the release of friction. Geologists have found evidence of earthquakes in California that go back thousands of years, although the first strong, documented earthquake occurred in Los Angeles in 1769. A violent earthquake in the 7.9 range toppled trees and buildings around Fort Tejon - a mountainside Army base - in 1857. As severe as the quake was, the state was so sparsely populated...
California's fault zones can match the rest of the world's in terms of earthquake magnitude, but when it comes to human casualties, they barely register a blip. "They're practically nothing," says Richard Allen, an associate professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the reason can be attributed to the U.S.'s superior earthquake preparation - California has strict building codes that are designed to prevent structures from collapse, and events like the Nov. 13 ShakeOut teach individuals what to do in an emergency. For the most part, though, the low death...
...exactly 140 years ago. The U.S. Geological Survey puts the odds of a magnitude 7 earthquake occurring within the next 30 years at 60%. Thirty years may seem like a long time to residents, but it's barely a tick of the clock when it comes to the earth. "We know it will occur," says Allen. " The question is simply when...