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...springs. Two scientists, now at Washington's Carnegie Institution, analyzed the timing of eruptions from 1973 to 1991. They found that the schedule was disrupted one to three days before each of the three biggest earthquakes of the period in the region. Just before the devastating Loma Prieta quake that hit the San Francisco area during the 1989 World Series, for example, the time between eruptions jumped from 90 to 150 minutes. Because the quakes occurred up to 250 km (155 miles) from the geyser, the data are not very helpful in warning the public, but they do support...
William Jarvis, public-health professor at Loma Linda University in Southern California, condemns virtually all alternative medicine. The founder of the National Council Against Health Fraud, he rejects macrobiotics as "not only unproven but a bizarre and dangerous diet for sick people." Aromatherapy is "crazy," he says. "If you are going to claim that something is safe and effective for human disease, you need to have proof...
...seaside resort city of Santa Cruz, only nine miles from the quake's epicenter deep under a hill called Loma Prieta, took a heavy hit. Much of a six-block stretch along Front Street and Pacific Avenue was reduced to rubble. A year later, 50-year-old masonry storefronts are still propped up with braces, but there are no stores behind them. At the Pacific Garden Mall, where three people died, only a handful of stores have reopened in temporary tentlike structures. The landmark St. George Hotel appears to be damaged beyond repair. "The impact here has been terrible," says...
...Loma Prieta quake, says geophysicist Peter Ward of the U.S. Geological Survey, "might be viewed as a warning shot. We may be headed into a period of much higher seismic activity." Last July the USGS issued a "probabilities report" estimating a 1-in-3 chance that another quake equal in strength to Loma Prieta could strike the Bay Area. At a conference of 1,000 earthquake experts who are convening this week to mark the anniversary, participants will be reminded that a 7.5 quake is expected at some indeterminate future date along the Hayward fault, which runs through a more...
...Diego's three leading ladies did not always live in mansions in Point Loma and Rancho Santa Fe. O'Connor, one of 13 children of a local boxer named Kid Jerome, once worked after school as a chambermaid in the Westgate Hotel next to the City Hall she now occupies as mayor. She was a phys-ed teacher with a shoestring campaign budget when, at 24, she became the youngest-ever member of the city council. In 1986 O'Connor handily won the mayoral race, after the incumbent mayor was convicted of perjury. By then financing a campaign was less...