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...struck early Monday in the central region of Abruzzo, killing at least 207 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. As the death toll from the predawn quake rose throughout the day, the tragedy took a bitter twist as it emerged that a local seismologist had predicted a major tremor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy's Earthquake: Could Tragedy Have Been Avoided? | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...dazed in the dusty aftermath. Pope Benedict XVI offered prayers for the victims, while Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi canceled a trip to Russia. Other world leaders, including President Barack Obama, called to express their solidarity with the Italians. The deadly quake came just hours after a magnitude 4.6 tremor was felt across Italy's north-central region, with no reports of damage. Italy's boot-shaped peninsula is crisscrossed by two fault lines, with about 20 million of its 57 million residents at risk from earthquakes. (See pictures of Obama's trip to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy's Earthquake: Could Tragedy Have Been Avoided? | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...leadership rather than outright dominance. Decision-making at the global level has been relatively non-existent. Although yesterday’s summit registered no seismic shift toward solidarity and probably nowhere near the number of institutional reforms needed to solve long-term problems, it at least made a strong tremor of cooperation on the geopolitical Richter scale...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Hail to the Chiefs | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Last week, geologists at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) announced they had recorded a "notable swarm of earthquakes under way since Dec. 26 beneath Yellowstone Lake." The strongest tremor among the hundreds in the past week measured 3.9 on Dec. 27; most of the readings above 2.8 were felt by park employees and visitors around the lake area. The activity relaxed in magnitude early this week but then flexed upward again to top 3.0 by early New Year's Eve. "This December 2008 earthquake sequence is the most intense in this area for some years," YVO reported, "and is centered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spurt of Quake Activity Raises Fears in Yellowstone | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...that mothers of kids with FXS often reported that their father was experiencing neurological symptoms. "I thought, This can't be a coincidence," she recalls. At an FXS conference in 2000, Hagerman asked some 100 fragile X family members if an older male relative was having problems with balance, tremors or dementia. About a third of the audience members shot their hands into the air. Within a few years, a newly recognized genetic disorder called FXTAS (fragile X--associated tremor, ataxia syndrome) was part of the literature, though the illness is still often mistaken for Alzheimer's, Parkinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fragile X: Unraveling Autism's Secrets | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

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