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Chile, however, is no stranger to major earthquakes. In 1960, a 9.5-magnitude temblor - the strongest quake ever recorded by scientific instruments - hit the Chilean city of Valdivia, killing nearly 2,000 people. And although today's quake is the strongest in the last half-century to hit Chile, the country has had 13 quakes of 7.0 or higher on the Richter scale since 1973. That geologic history helps explain why building codes are far tougher in Chile than they are in Haiti, which should help limit the number of casualties from today's quake. So far, 147 people have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explainer: Why Chile's Quake Wasn't Unexpected | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

...they cook for their families. At first I thought Rhee did not understand D.C. culture, but after I read the entire article, it was clear that the issue is not D.C. culture. It is human culture - human feelings and the human spirit - that she does not understand. Maria Valdivia, Banning, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...they cook for their families. At first I thought Rhee did not understand D.C. culture, but after I read the entire article, it was clear that the issue is not D.C. culture. It is human culture--human feelings and the human spirit--that she does not understand. Maria Valdivia, BANNING, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...suspected informants and anyone who tries to evade the coca taxes. And despite the area's narco-economy, drug consumption of any kind is strictly forbidden - to such a draconian extent that a few days before TIME arrived, guerrillas executed two drug addicts in the nearby town of Puerto Valdivia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Among the FARC's True Believers | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...naked self-interest. He may be right. There's certainly no dust on the keyboards at John O'Connell high school's computer lab. It was packed with students for six hours of voluntary, credit-free SAT prep one baking-hot San Francisco Saturday afternoon in November. Diana Valdivia, a junior, signed up for the program just a few weeks earlier and is now aiming for UCLA. "I'm doing this for my future," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digital Divide | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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