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...RIO DE JANEIRO: Congratulate the Brazilian people for their farsightedness: The current global contagion that has pushed Brazil's government to the brink of disaster has visited equal hardship on its people, yet the nation is poised to reelect President Fernando Enrique Cardoso with the full knowledge that he has even deeper hardship in store. Rarely have the IMF and its usual victims -- ordinary citizens -- been in such agreement...
...craze is only going to get wilder: last week Diamond Multimedia of San Jose, Calif., announced it will ship hardware next month that plays MP3 recordings. The $199 device, called Rio, is as small as a deck of cards and plugs into your PC, where you can fill it up with an hour's worth of tunes that you've downloaded. Then you can detach it and take it anywhere...
While her parents Cary and Gary didn't play, her younger sister Laura, 16, is following in the two older sisters' footsteps at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento...
...findings. That would leave the rest of us to report on the finding, critique it, buy stock in it and design policy around it. A few of us would ignore it completely. All of this would happen in Bilbao, Chicago, Pocatello and Rio De Janeiro, and in other places too. We will be right in the mix of the world, and we will be way out of it as well. On Thursday we will stand as one, but as many ones. Out of our many ones will come manifold destinies. Choose them wisely and with good care...
Technically, the landslides that hit Laguna Beach, Loma Mar and Rio Nido are known as debris flows. These are shallow slides that involve only the top layer of soil and usually occur during rainstorms. Debris flows are dangerous; they can run at speeds as high as 40 m.p.h., far faster than a person can run. Fortunately, most debris flows funnel through fairly narrow channels, and so the damage they inflict is limited. But Californians are at risk for a second type of slide, which the U.S. Geological Survey's David Howell refers to as a "bedrock landslide." Such deep-seated...