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Buildings may topple and lives may be lost if the Big One shakes the wrong part of California but another catastrophic consequence of an enormous earthquake in the San Francisco area may involve water. Two thirds of the state's drinking water supply flows through the gigantic Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta region east of San Francisco Bay - and the levees that help direct the massive amounts of water south to farmlands and cities are so antiquated that many may simply collapse with a major temblor. The resulting flooding could also put California's huge farm belt, hundreds of thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Plan to Keep the Water Running | 11/7/2009 | See Source »

...investigator being a criminal just as awful as the original murderers. Though at first Rivera’s conspiracy theories may seem unfounded, as the novel progresses the truth behind her ideas begins to emerge, and the reader’s thoughts regarding the other inhabitants of San Salvador begin to mirror hers...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reflections in a Political ‘Mirror’ | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Moya uses the cloud of suspicion that surrounds Olga María’s murder to illustrate the extent of the corruption in San Salvador as a microcosm of humanity at large and how even the perpetrators of heinous acts can gain impunity with enough power behind them. Rivera’s paranoia and frustration surrounding her friend’s murder only grow as she realizes there is no one above suspicion...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reflections in a Political ‘Mirror’ | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Moya artfully uses Rivera’s mind to depict the chaotic and corrupt nature of the Salvadoran political landscape without the hampering effect of explication, allowing his work and powerful charge to resound not only San Salvador, but wherever political corruption...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reflections in a Political ‘Mirror’ | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...With reporting by Bobby Ghosh / Washington; Hilary Hylton / Fort Hood; and Karen Tumulty / San Antonio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stresses at Fort Hood Were Likely Intense for Hasan | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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