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...wildfires that now annually singe Southern California came early this year, spreading slowly from drought-stricken wilderness to the foothills near Los Angeles. Fire season is usually worst in October, when the hot Santa Ana winds blow over the San Gabriel Mountains. But this inferno needed no wind--the Station fire in Angeles National Forest burned more than 100,000 acres (40,500 hectares), threatened thousands of homes and killed two firefighters in the dry heat of late summer. The stillness kept the flames from spreading quickly--a climatologist called it the "Jabba the Hutt fire," big and slow...
...show, called “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” will feature content from 24 course lectures recorded by WGBH, a Boston public broadcasting station, during the 2005-2006 school year. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...second day as a student at the University of Wollongong, Ajay Unni came face to face with an ugly edge of Australian society. Newly arrived from his native India, Unni was chatting with a friend at the local train station when a stranger came up to them and snarled, "Why don't you f___ing speak English?" Seven years later, Unni recalls the moment with some bemusement. "The funny thing was that we were actually speaking English, with a few words of Hindi here and there...
...Referring to the 2006 election in which Chávez won a third term, Stone tells viewers that "90% of the media was opposed to him," and yet he prevailed. "There is a lesson to be learned," Stone says. Yes: support the man in power, or your newspaper, radio station or TV network may be in jeopardy...
Cambridge Street, located near the busy Lechmere T-station, is home to quaint row houses and small businesses, but behind the brown wooden door of a 150-year-old house lay a newly discovered skeleton, buried with a century...