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...first tsunami wave is expected to hit at 11:04 a.m., Hawaii time, at heights estimated from 39 inches to six feet. Through local lore, residents know that the first wave may not be the biggest one. Indeed, because of the island's geography, the waves are expected to wrap around the islands, bouncing from one to the other, after they first make impact...
...Updated: Feb. 27, 2010. Just before 6 p.m. eastern time or about 1 p.m. in Hawaii, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center canceled the tsunami alert for the state...
...last time Hawaii ordered a major evacuation was after an earthquake and tsunami ravaged Russia's Kuril islands, in 1994. The government closed down schools, state and county offices and sent workers home. But nothing ended up happening in Hawaii. This time, however, while the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said that no one was predicting a "worst case scenario," it said that damaging waves are quite likely to occur...
...jihad against Switzerland as just another round in the feud between the two countries. But it would be a mistake to treat Gaddafi's rhetoric as mere theater. Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, the Libyan leader's second-eldest son, who many suspect is Gaddafi's likely successor, tells TIME that Libya's row with Switzerland is evidence of a far more serious and urgent issue within Libya, which is grappling with how democratic and Westernized the country should become after decades of isolation. "If we are going to dance with them [the West], we need to dance with the same...
...interview with TIME, Saif did not criticize his father, to whom he is close. Yet he offered a head-on challenge to Libya's conservatives, who resist calls for democratic change. "They are idiots," he says, waving his hand as though to dismiss them. When asked what kinds of new political freedoms he wants for Libya - such as freedom of speech, or privately owned media - Saif replied without hesitating: "Everything - a level of freedom like in Holland." That would be a stunning departure from his father's 40-year rule, in which the country has carved a far different path...