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...posed by volcanoes - both for people living in their shadows or for someone like me who lives thousands of miles away from one? If you live close to a volcano, you have to be worried about flowing lava, flowing mud. Mudflows can go quite a distance - 100 km - down river valleys. If you live farther away, you're not going to be directly affected by those hazards, but you could very well be affected by the ashfall, which can travel a distance of hundreds of miles. Ash has also erupted with great force into the stratosphere. That's where jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Volcano Monitors Do? | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...times the force of gravity (older seats were 9g compliant). Ironically, the long negotiation period and concerns among the airlines that the FAA would make requirements retroactive means that almost all major airlines in operation today already have 16g-compatible seats. (See pictures of the plane in the Hudson River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving Crashes: How Airlines Prepare for the Worst | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...They would post the crew practice schedule in the window—there’s something the Internet has killed—but that’s the way you used to know when you were supposed to be down by the River,” Lewis says...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 126 Years and Still Smoking | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...wonder if the people fighting for the right to bring guest to dinner have ever asked their guests if they actually want to eat in Lowell. With that tiny servery and hidden cereal bar, it’s a pretty big downgrade from all the other river dining halls...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb | Title: Lowell D-Hall Puts Up The Velvet Rope | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...least 20 injured people were admitted to Dhaka Medical College and other hospitals in the capital. On Thursday, police retrieved the bullet-ridden bodies of at least six BDR officers from a sewer on the outskirts of Dhaka that connects the BDR headquarters to a nearby river. It is believed that the mutineers shot the officers dead and later threw the bodies into the tunnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Mutiny Challenges New Bangladesh PM | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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