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...experts predict a particularly strong hurricane season a year after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans, a study by the Harvard School of Public Health predicts that one in four residents of hurricane-prone areas would not heed government-issued storm evacuation orders...
...Beijing is reluctant to take a harder line, partly because it can neither control Kim nor predict how he will react. Pyongyang in the past has made veiled threats that it would attack South Korea if sanctions were imposed. Following the passage of the U.N. resolution on Saturday, North Korea said through its U.N. representative that it "totally rejects" the measure...
...Roman imperial soldiers based near Barbate packed dried tuna loin and tuna eggs in their kits as a portable source of protein. But a global scramble for bluefin tuna and the world's changing eating habits is threatening the sea's stock of the species. Environmentalists and marine biologists predict that this year approximately 50,000 tons of tuna will be caught in the Med. That represents thousands of jobs - at least 5,000 in Spain's traditional tuna-trapping business alone - and over 50% of the global market for bluefin tuna, a staple of the world's sushi restaurants...
...problem with legal immigrants. But then there are those individuals - including members of Congress - who call for a moratorium on legal immigration, or try to cut back on H-1B visas for high-skilled immigrants from countries such as China or India, or wring their hands over studies that predict that 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants, once legalized, could bring in tens of millions of family members legally over the next 20 years. So what? As long as the new arrivals come legally, what's the problem? I mean, what part of "legal" don't these people understand...
...collapsed after riding Walt Disney World's Rock 'N' Roller Coaster, the answer may finally be yes. In a scenario that will raise a cold sweat among epinephrine junkies who live for escalations in the theme-park roller coaster arms race, industry insiders are starting to predict that fear will not be the driving factor in the next generation of rides...