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Looking back 20 years later, however, seismologists say the Bay Area got lucky. The epicenter of the quake was near Loma Prieta peak in Santa Clara County, outside the densely populated urban neighborhoods of San Francisco and Oakland. The destruction missed Silicon Valley - with its tens of billions in economic value - altogether. "If that quake had to happen, that was really the best place," says Yanev. "We were about as lucky as we could get." (See TIME's special report "Where Will the Next Five Big Earthquakes...
...point about Moore. A random core sample taken from A Gate at the Stairs reveals a density of wry, pitilessly accurate observation unlike anything else in contemporary fiction: "The Mexican strawberries in the refrigerator had grown the wise and cheery beards of Santa Claus." Looking out through an icicle-hung window is like "living in the cold, dead mouth of a very mean snowman." Anybody else wanting to be the greatest writer of Moore's generation is now throwing his or her hat on the ground and stomping...
...fact that people are staying single for longer but still want to buy homes, and there's a whole new taste afoot - Santa Barbara-based B3 Architects is building a series of 800-square-footers. "The big-box house is no longer the market," says Charles Shinn, principal of the builder consultancy Shinn Consulting in Littleton, Colo...
Harvard had a record of only 3-8 coming into Saturday’s game, having suffered tough losses to George Washington, No. 11 Princeton, No. 16 Santa Clara, and divisional opponent Fordham. But the team’s resilience allowed it to bounce back from its slow start...
...Classic, this time to Cal freshman Christoffer Konigsfeldt, 6-3, 6-2. Sunday proved to be a pivotal day for Crimson players as they faced some experienced competitors. McAnulty beat senior Bijan Hejazi of UC Berkeley, 7-6, 6-3, a player who had won numerous accolades at UC Santa Barbara before transferring in January of this year. Chijoff-Evans won against Mississippi sophomore Marcel Thiemann in a decisive contest towards the latter two sets, 6-1, 7-6, 10-8. The last set was played as a super tiebreaker due to Ole Miss’ early departure from...