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Though that question is never entirely out of mind in California, it usually just withers in the sun, overwhelmed by the seductive arguments of the natural beauty and friendly climate. But now the palpable and sometimes painful memories of the Pretty Big One, as the locals are calling the recent...
The alarms raised by consumer groups may prove to be a mixed blessing. Some experts complain that a generation that faces fewer real health threats than did their grandparents has become hypersensitive to relatively minor perils. Biochemist Bruce Ames of the University of California, Berkeley, points out that naturally occurring...
Californians cannot count on the same lengthy intervals between disasters. , After a moderately powerful quake shook the area around Whittier in 1987, a University of Southern California survey of 235 people in Los Angeles County found that most of those questioned were not interested in leaving. But 30% said they...
To say that Californians have been willing to tolerate the risks arising from life on a fault line is not to say they have been indifferent to them. The recent quake was comparable in magnitude to the one in Armenia last December, which killed 25,000. "A substantial contributor to...
Readers will have to take sides here, or struggle to find a compromise somewhere in the middle ground. For beneath its endlessly diverting surface, Eco's novel constitutes a litmus test for ways of looking at history and the world. Casaubon, the narrator, recalls himself as a younger man, when...