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While its increasingly affluent residents may wish to believe they have destiny in their grasp, Santiago - the economic jewel of South America - is perched on a stretch of earth that violently resists all efforts to tame it. Situated along the ring of fire, a hotbed of seismic activity that encircles the Pacific, the plates Chile sits on top of regularly unleash earthquakes of extremely high magnitude - more than a dozen major earthquakes since 1973. Richter can assign them a number, but it is difficult to describe how feverish and angry the earth feels here. The aftershocks this weekend have come...
...scientists said their winning photograph—entitled “Save Our Earth. Let’s Go Green”—embodies the theme of environmental sustainability...
...image conveys an idea of many fingers lifting up a green earth above the environmental crisis, according to Aizenberg, who is a professor of materials science at SEAS as well as a Radcliffe Fellow...
...It’s a metaphor that many hands are needed to save the earth,” Aizenberg said...
...Personality wise, he’s pretty down to earth,” Pascarella adds. “He’s a really funny, really nice...