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Looking back 20 years later, however, seismologists say the Bay Area got lucky. The epicenter of the quake was near Loma Prieta peak in Santa Clara County, outside the densely populated urban neighborhoods of San Francisco and Oakland. The destruction missed Silicon Valley - with its tens of billions in economic value - altogether. "If that quake had to happen, that was really the best place," says Yanev. "We were about as lucky as we could get." (See TIME's special report "Where Will the Next Five Big Earthquakes...
Thomas’ decision to rotate the piece 90 degrees, as well as her near-complete color reversal (greens are pinks, and most symbolically, bright oranges become blues), speaks to multiple beliefs: the color reversal, to the historic mistreatment of black people in Western societies; the correspondence in shape, to a fundamental common ground between all peoples’ experiences. In short, Matisse may have gotten some credit where credit was perhaps not due, but this fact did not impede Thomas from either being inspired by or relating to his work. This notion is further illustrated by her second painting...
...Pozas (the Pools) are an excellent first stop and typify the region's color and extravagance. These extraordinary gardens near the mountain village of Xilitla were devised by the English surrealist poet Edward James, who worked on them from 1949 right up until his death in 1984. Giant sculptures, pagodas, moss-covered follies and staircases to nowhere sprawl over 80 acres (32 hectares). Nearby is James' former home - a truly incongruous mansion of turrets and Gothic windows rising out of the jungle. Today, it is a fabulously quirky eight-room hotel, La Posada El Castillo...
...less challenging plunge awaits at the Tamasopo waterfalls, of which Minas Viejas is a favorite - the waters are pristine and the crowds nonexistent. More swimming can be had at Nacimiento del Río Huichihuayán (Source of the Huichihuayán River) near the village of Huichihuayán. The river seems to burst right out of the mountains, forming large pools...
...link between militants in Waziristan and Punjab means the battle against extremism is being waged not only near the Afghan border, but also near the Indian one. Shortly before the attacks in Lahore, a suicide car bomb exploded near a police station in the northwestern city of Kohat, killing three police officers and eight civilians. Shortly after the Lahore violence was over, another car bomb exploded in the northwestern border city of Peshawar, killing a 6-year-old boy and wounded nine others, mainly women and children. Security is being beefed up in Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital and biggest...