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...MSNBC's old studio in Secaucus, N.J., which was supposed to be a temporary home until the Harlem building was finished. The space features a 9,600-sq.-ft. replica baseball field, replete with dugouts, outfield seats and a 25-ft. scoreboard modeled after the one at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. On this set - called Studio 42, after Jackie Robinson's uniform number - analysts will provide on-air instruction about the subtleties of the game. "We have a lot of toys in here," says Tony Petitti, the former No. 2 at CBS Sports who was tapped in April...
...live along Montana's Yellowstone River are downstream from a simmering caldera, a geologic hot spot that has become especially active recently. Indeed, Yellowstone National Park contains the floor of a gigantic volcanic cauldron, one that rises and sinks with the forces that lie beneath - hence the picturesque geysers and steam holes. But a wave of recent earthquake activity is raising fears that have their origins 642,000 years ago, when a Yellowstone "supervolcano" exploded so violently that it created the caldera itself. Today, such an explosion - 1,000 times more powerful than the explosion of Mount St. Helens...
...week, geologists at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) announced they had recorded a "notable swarm of earthquakes under way since Dec. 26 beneath Yellowstone Lake." The strongest tremor among the hundreds in the past week measured 3.9 on Dec. 27; most of the readings above 2.8 were felt by park employees and visitors around the lake area. The activity relaxed in magnitude early this week but then flexed upward again to top 3.0 by early New Year's Eve. "This December 2008 earthquake sequence is the most intense in this area for some years," YVO reported, "and is centered...
...bulbs had been destroyed,” said Joel B. Pollak, a student at Harvard Law School. “When I looked more closely, I saw the electrical wires had been cut.” Pollak said he discovered the damage while walking by the park on Friday just past noon. He wrote about the incident on his blog later that...
Qantas is also offering an "Outback Airpass" package, which includes tickets to Australia from Los Angeles or San Francisco, tickets on three domestic flights and hotel upgrades at any Voyages hotel in the Northern Territory, the famous Australian Outback, plus tickets to the Territory Wildlife Park. Book by Jan. 31, 2009, for travel through August. Prices start...