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...bright, summery Saturday morning in Santiago, and at the Catedral Metropolitana de Santiago, the groom is becoming nervous. Less than 12 hours beforehand, the strongest earthquake to hit Chile in a generation rocked the capital, and all morning, local radio stations have carried news that although the city's modern structures emerged largely unscathed from the tremor, Santiago's sacred spaces did not fare as well. A few blocks away, the bell tower at Divina Providencia, a community church, had collapsed. But in the Plaza de Armas, the 18th century Catedral Metropolitana has held up much better. A few fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postquake: Unease, and Wedding Bells, In Chile | 2/28/2010 | See Source »

...Less than 15 seconds after substituting into the game, the big man grabbed an offensive rebound of a Lin miss, but the put-back bounced off the back...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Long-Range Effort Sparks Offense | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

Ryabkina pushed the lead to 3-0 less than a minute later. Weber reached out to try to smother a shot from freshman Jillian Dempsey, but couldn’t get a glove on it. Ryabkina chipped the shot over the flattened Weber to light the lamp again...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stone Breaks All-Time Wins Mark as Women's Hockey Tops Princeton | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

...researchers said they were grateful for the opportunity to bring less acccessible scientific concepts into public attention...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientific Image Wins Photo Prize | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...state budget from two-thirds to a simple majority.) Williams, a regular voter, admits to confusion on many of the initiatives. "I never know what to do. I think representative government is a good thing, but I am one of the few." Angie Sim, 37, likes the tax measures. "Less taxes are better for me." Jessica Moore, a junior in college who supports "green" ballot measures, says, "They push you to sign the initiative, but they don't tell you everything. I think the special interests control the initiative process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Initiative Culture Broke California | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

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