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Chances are we won't get that lucky again in earthquake-prone San Francisco or in any of the cities around the world that sit on unstable land. According to a 2008 study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), there's a more than 99% chance that a quake of magnitude 6.7 or higher will hit California over the next 30 years and a nearly 50% chance that a magnitude 7.5 or higher quake will hit the state over the same period. Tokyo, Tehran, Istanbul, Seattle, St. Louis - all are major cities built on land that has experienced massive quakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake Preparedness: Lessons from San Francisco | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...concentration people are exposed to in the indoor environment is a question mark right now,” said Vorhees, who explained that buildings are examined for PCBs only on a case-by-case basis. “Nobody, as far as I know, has done a systematic survey of buildings...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Toxins Found in Peabody Terrace | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...Bank of Canada's fall survey of business confidence shows 69% of the country's business leaders expect their sales volume to increase at a greater rate over the next 12 months, compared with the previous year. That's the best reading since the country's central bank began compiling these quarterly statistics more than a decade ago. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Exposure: Could Canada's Recovery Stall? | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...John Krafcik, president and CEO of Hyundai Motor America, is now able to do something rare for automakers: boast. "U.S. car buyers have responded in record numbers to high-quality, award-winning Hyundai products," he says. More significantly, praise is coming from Consumer Reports, J.D. Power & Associates' Initial Quality Survey and a panel of journalists at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit who named Hyundai's Genesis the 2009 Car of the Year. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hyundai and Kia Find the Sweet Spot in U.S. Market | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

Furui Zhan, director of the NLC, said at the ceremony that a preliminary survey indicated that more than a third of the titles in Harvard’s collection were not available at the NLC, and that others are different editions of existing books...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard College Library, China Form Pact | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

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