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...best the USGS and other organizations can do is use the global web of seismometers and other instruments that are already in place and always being improved to build the best map possible of the planet's interior and at least narrow the predictive window of when quakes are likely to happen. They can also use these data to anticipate how severe the next tremor, whenever it comes, is likely to be. This can help drive policy decisions like improving building codes, reinforcing infrastructure and zoning some areas as unsuitable for development. That's hardly the same as precise predicting...
Additional concerns over HMC's practices surfaced after Meyer's departure when one former employee called Harvard's use of off-shore accounts into question...
...team members, it was a chance to get into the facility that we will use for Heps,” the coach said. “We were able to get up [to Hanover] and get comfortable with...
...with the same trepidation with which they anticipated the publication of her memoir in November. Around the time of the book's release, McCain convened an unusual conference call with the top staffers of his campaign. McCainworld had been braced for Palin's tome for months, fearing she would use it to settle scores against a group of aides she had turned against - and vice versa. In the call, however, McCain implored his people to refrain from commenting on the book. He had no appetite for an ugly public airing of his campaign's most heavily soiled laundry. (See pictures...
...missile-defense system aimed at scaring away the U.S. from defending the island nation of Taiwan. By shooting down one missile with another, China demonstrated its growing military prowess. But it also telegraphed its anger over last week's sale of U.S. Patriot interceptor missiles to Taiwan. Taipei would use the Patriots to blunt any attack by Beijing's 1,100 missiles poised just across the Taiwan Strait. China has threatened to use force should Taiwan, which has had its own political system for the past six decades, opt for independence...