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Just how prepared is San Francisco to weather the worst? Newsom told reporters last week that the city has made progress since he took office in early 2004. Among other things, the city has revived its disaster-planning council and regularly stages emergency-response trial runs. It has installed 65 civil defense--style sirens equipped with loudspeakers for broadcasting information about hazards and evacuation routes to outlying neighborhoods. And it is stepping up the training of thousands of civilians in disaster medicine and other emergency skills so they can serve as geographically dispersed disaster workers...
...Aristotle Onassis and buy your very own island, of course. With more than 1,400 isles dotting the country's brilliant blue seas, yet less than 200 of them inhabited, Greece is a natural attraction for island shoppers who want to enjoy clear waters, sandy beaches and fantastic summer weather far from tourists and prying paparazzi lenses. State officials refuse to disclose the actual number of islands for sale, but high-end real estate experts say 17 barren outcrops alone are up for grabs in the Ionian Sea, near Nidri Lefkada, pictured, and Skorpios, Onassis' private retreat. Paloma Picasso, fashion...
...airlines need to take a step back and size up the situation. While it’s impossible to eradicate all risk, every possible step must be taken to minimize it, even at higher costs. Excepting the Peru crash that was the result of inclement weather, the other three major accidents are thought to have technical causes. The Greek jet, it is said, suffered a sudden loss in cabin pressure that could have resulted from failures in the air conditioning system. The Venezuelan twin-engine failure could have been either because of fuel contamination or maintenance malfunction...
While many of the students at UNO had lost homes and family incomes, students from outside of the city had more options. Tulane junior Natalie McKay—who had planned to drive to school the Sunday before the hurricane but stayed in New York after hearing the weather predictions—has arranged to study abroad in London through a Syracuse University program this semester...
...Curry, 41, and his fans, musings about mundane matters like the weather and driving through tollbooths are aural gems, all part of the intimate sound romps he creates for more than 100,000 listeners worldwide. He likens his audio meanderings to radio's heyday, when it invoked the "theater of the mind." "Listening sucks," he says about today's corporate-controlled radio and homogenized programming. "When do you hear a room breathe...