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...While the cables are at least 20 km apart, the magnitude 6.7 quake was powerful enough to shake or rupture a 300-km-long area of seabed. Given this temblor's force, says Ha Yung-kuen, acting director-general of Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), "you can [imagine] the damage it would make to submarine cables. Maybe mountains become valleys, and valleys become mountains...
...Hallion said. “We get respect, but in comparison to BC, people don’t see us as on the same level. It’s pretty cool that on the one chance I ever had to play BC, we beat them.”The shake-up in the Boston area will likely be small, as Harvard doesn’t count solely upon local recruits to fill its roster. But it does take the spotlight off of Chestnut Hill for the briefest of moments and shines it instead on Harvard.“You know...
...past two years, Martin Chavez, mayor of Albuquerque, has brought his best friend to work every day. His friend doesn't talk, but he's often the first to shake visitors' hands. Dukes, Chavez's two-year-old floppy-eared mutt, is around not just for the company, but as a way to bring attention to the mayor's commitment to reduce the city's exploding unwanted animal population...
...short-lived. When insurgents began raiding the highways as a means of fundraising, Sittar and his gang began clashing with insurgents in a turf war. "He has no loyalty to anybody or any ideology," the former al-Qaeda fighter says of Sittar. "He wants money and power, and will shake the hand of anybody who he thinks can get him money and power. But tomorrow, he can turn and cut off the same hand if somebody else offers him more...
...give that search committee of Mr. Houghton a lot of credit for bringing somebody in that could really shake the place up,” Merck says, alluding to Houghton’s role on the panel that picked Summers. “The big thing is that they shook the cage and things are starting to move...