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...Pacific gradually submerges beneath the westward moving South American plate. The border between these two plates is known as a thrust fault, and the sudden rubbing of the plates against each other resulted in an earthquake that ripped across an estimated 400 miles of the fault. With a Richter scale magnitude of 8.8, the Chilean quake was nearly 1,000 times stronger than the temblor that hit Haiti last month...
...creation of a European Monetary Fund that follows a set of fixed processes for assistance to struggling states. In the long term, however, the only feasible solution that will prevent such situations from occurring again is a stronger political union that will coordinate economic policies on a larger scale...
...were Democrats willing to scale back their ambitious and comprehensive plan in favor of a more incremental approach. "We'd love to have a five-page bill," Obama said to the Republicans who arrived toting copies of the massive Senate-passed legislation. "It would save an awful lot of work. The reason we didn't do it is because it turns out that baby steps don't get you to the place where people need to go." (See the top 10 players in health care reform...
Kramer told the audience that in countries in which the median population age is less than 20—among Palestinians, the median age is 17, he said—“Islamist radicalization is taking place on a massive scale...
...never imagined that in a year and a half it would happen for the first time, and on such a big scale,” he said...