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...Korean and U.S. monitors said that the missile had failed to release anything into orbit. "Stage one of the missile fell into the Sea of Japan/East Sea," reads an official report from the United States Northern Command. "The remaining stages along with the payload itself landed in the Pacific Ocean...
...flat as a pool table and barely a mile wide at its narrowest, the Rockaway Peninsula - a tongue of land that sticks into the Atlantic Ocean at New York City's southeastern corner - is already vulnerable to storm surges and floods. Global warming, with its rising seas and harder rain, will only intensify those threats. That's what has Vincent Sapienza, the city's assistant commissioner for wastewater treatment, so worried. The Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant, which processes 25 million gal. (95,000 cu m) of sewage a day, sits next to the beach, and its pumps are below...
...hasn't lost her job. In the interest of disclosure, we are all "of a certain age," and it is natural for a particular sort of gravity to kick in at about the 30-year mark. (A friend recently noted that turning 31 is like being in the ocean and no longer seeing the shore. Ah, to be young!) But this, I'm pretty sure, is different. This feels like more than run-of-the-mill buckling down...
Spring break in Southern California instantly conjures images of a beautiful coastline: from riding ocean waves on a surfboard, to lying on a golden beach, soaking up the sun—could there be anything better than this?In the case of the Crimson men’s tennis team, yes—it is likely that Harvard would gladly trade the various charms of the West Coast for a return to full strength and winning ways, culminating in back-to-back Ivy League championships.With the start of the Ancient Eight fixtures only a week away, No. 68 Harvard...
...working with Iran. "We are going to stay with it as long as I'm in office," he promised the American people, reminding them yet again that he has only been in office just over 60 days and is wrestling with problems he "inherited." "This is a big ocean liner. It's not a speedboat." (See Obama's top 10 gaffes...