Word: majored
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...skeptical of the efficacy of all vaccines? People always ask me if I am against other vaccines. I am not. I have five children. They have all been vaccinated against the major diseases as part of the standard childhood-vaccination program. Those vaccines have strong evidence to back them up. I am not antivaccine. I am anti-poor evidence...
...last time Hawaii ordered a major evacuation was after an earthquake and tsunami ravaged Russia's Kuril islands, in 1994. The government closed down schools, state and county offices and sent workers home. But nothing ended up happening in Hawaii. This time, however, while the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said that no one was predicting a "worst case scenario," it said that damaging waves are quite likely to occur...
...visa ban has certainly thrown investments in Libya's booming oil industry into question. When TIME visited Libya's major natural gas facility on Tuesday - it pipes gas to Italy under the Mediterranean - the company's Italian general manager, from the Italian energy company ENI, was not there. He was stuck in Europe, with no visa to return...
...MILE) zone that encircles the Pacific Ocean and includes the most seismically dangerous ground on the planet. The unstable plate tectonics along the Ring produce some 90% of the world's earthquakes as well as most of its volcanic eruptions. (See where experts predict the next five major earthquakes will...
Because the Ring follows the coastlines of Pacific Ocean, almost any major quake can also produce a tsunami, a powerful wave that travels from the epicenter of the temblor across the ocean basin. That's what happened in 2004, when a 9.3-magnitude quake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a devastating tsunami, and that's is what's likely to happen following today's 8.8-magnitude quake off the coast of Chile. (See the latest photos of the earthquake in Chile...