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...just a noise like an underground explosion. The wave came almost instantaneously. Everything that was standing is flattened.' DOROTHY PARKINSON, resident of the Solomon Islands, where a tsunami, triggered by an offshore earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale, killed over two dozen people and forced thousands to flee their homes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...process works: Idol is the most reliable hit-launching platform in show biz. It dominates TV; rival networks refer to it as a "tsunami." Idol Season 1 champ Kelly Clarkson has sold more than 8 million albums; Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood, 5 million; and even Season 2 runner-up Clay Aiken, more than 4 million. Its alumni have won Grammys (Clarkson), Country Music Awards (Underwood) and even an Academy Award (Jennifer Hudson). To paraphrase Hudson's Oscar-winning lyric, Idol is telling you it is not going. And anyone in the hitmaking business should be listening to what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why American Idol Keeps Soaring | 4/4/2007 | See Source »

...earthquake of magnitude 8.1 hit the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean in the early morning of April 2. More than 20 people have been reported killed in the resulting tsunami. Following is an account provided to TIME via phone from the South Pacific nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving the Pacific Tsunami | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

...Even smaller NEOs could prove troublesome at best, whether they crash into land or ocean. “There’s some modeling to indicate that objects of a few hundred meters across would [cause damage] comparable to what we saw in the tsunami in the Indian Ocean a few years ago,” said Brian G. Marsden, the director emeritus of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in a phone interview. And they’ll come eventually: kilometer-wide NEOs strike the earth every few hundred thousand years, with Tunguska...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel | Title: Bullets from Outer Space | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

...magnitude in 1849 alone. And just as the Western exodus reached full speed, American cities became true modern metropolises. In 1800, New York had only 60,000 people, but by the middle of the century, the population had grown to half a million. Filling the cities was the first tsunami of immigrants--in particular the Irish, driven to the U.S. by the famine that began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1848: When America Came of Age | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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