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...location is convenient for the 28-year-old shipping clerk, because the lives only about a mile away...
...leaving. Or it may turn out that Californians, known for their reckless hopes and short memories, will find blessings in the rubble -- like the bearded man in the mackinaw and shorts who stood, just an hour after the quake, at the intersection of Reseda and Sherman Way, only a mile from its center, and directed traffic with a torchlight...
...bigger is going on. Climatologists once thought the world eased into ice ages, with average temperatures in parts of the Northern Hemisphere falling 15 degrees over hundreds or thousands of years. During long, frigid winters and short, cool summers, snow piled up much faster than it could melt, and mile-thick sheets of ice gradually covered much of the planet's land surface. After 100,000 years or so, scientists believed, the glaciers made a dignified retreat, stayed put for about 10,000 years and then began to grow again...
...decades Californians have lived in fear of the tectonic monster that inhabits the San Andreas Fault, a spectacular, 800-mile-long slash through the earth's surface. But last week's earthquake was a sobering reminder that the mighty San Andreas is not the state's only seismic menace. A web of smaller cracks crisscrosses the fragile California crust. Many of these faults are well known. But others lie hidden deep underground, like the one that gave Los Angeles its latest disaster. Until the earth moved, the residents of the northwestern suburb of Northridge had no idea that a deadly...
...eerie, being up here this close," says Craig Martin, a Waco TV production supervisor who covered the siege from a mile away. He is snapping photos of his parents, Baptist missionaries visiting from Thailand. "I could see how it burned so fast in this wind," observes a tourist from Minnesota, "but what really happened...