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...Next year, the federal government and 13 states will conduct a two-week exercise focusing on how to cope with a New Madrid zone earthquake. They'll have a lot to plan for. Two government studies conducted in the wake of Katrina predicted that a 7.7 quake could kill up to 4,200 Memphis residents and injure another 70,000; destroy or damage 200,000 homes in the city of 1 million people; render one third of all hospital beds useless the day after the quake; and cause about $70 billion in damages. "My previous director used...
...Earthquakes The Bay Area is not the only region threatened by quakes. The greatest risk outside the West Coast is found along the New Madrid fault zone, a 120-mile-long system named after a little town in Arkansas. This is where a series of 2,000 earthquakes struck over a five-month period between 1811 and 1812; five of the quakes registered magnitude 8.0 or more. Eighteen of them caused church bells to ring on the East Coast...
...matches, it took the three-time African Player of the Year's near departure from the field to jolt the country - or at least its media - into recognizing how entrenched racism has become among fans. Many are now asking why Spain - a country that, after the terrorist bombings in Madrid of March 11, 2004, prided itself on its tolerance toward outsiders - can't seem to curb the ugly scenes that blight its stadiums. Such scenes are not new. "Ultras" - fans whose ardent devotion to their teams has often spilled over into violence - have long been a feature of the Spanish...
...group ETA; in a video communiqu? sent to a Basque TV station in Spain. Founded in 1959, ETA has killed more than 850 people and kidnapped or injured hundreds of others in its independence campaign for the Basque region of Spain. After the March 2004 Islamic-terrorist attack in Madrid, support for its violent methods ebbed away. ETA previously announced an "indefinite" cease-fire in 1998, but resumed its attacks after peace talks broke down...
...Iraq, improved explosive devices--homemade bombs also known as IEDs--have caused more than half of the 2,300 U.S. troop deaths. In terrorist attacks in Madrid and London, those devices were the plotters' weapons of choice, and bomb experts believe it is only a matter of time before an IED strike takes place in the U.S. But Washington has done little to prepare a national strategy for the threat. According to government sources and bomb experts, efforts to coordinate Administration plans to deal with the danger have stalled in part because of inexperienced leadership and bureaucratic infighting. The Bush...