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...previous three years, she had watched the toads increase in number with the waxing of the moon. But last year was different. The moon grew from crescent to gibbous, and suddenly the toads were gone. "It went from there being 90 to 100 toads down to six, and then to one, and then zero," says Grant. A few mating pairs hung around, but after two days, they too left. "It was so dramatic, I was trying to think of reasons why they might have gone," she says. "I was at a loss. Did somebody come and disturb them? Did somebody...
...find the strength to ski with an injury? -Erin Lack, La Crescent, Minn. It's been a real challenge for me to be able to ski well despite this injury. I've been doing as much therapy as I can. I use castor oil. My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies. And I do laser therapy and massage. I pretty much do everything humanly possible to make it feel better. (See 25 Olympic athletes to watch...
...Obama Administration's strategic policy to engage its adversaries, and with wider U.S. geopolitical interests in the Middle East. Though the Bush Administration first toyed with toppling the Assad regime and then settled for simply ignoring it, Obama has tried to coax Syria away from the so-called rejectionist crescent - the arc of countries and militant groups from Tehran to Gaza that stand in opposition to U.S. and Israeli power...
...momentous, things that mattered in some lasting way, images destined not for shoe boxes but for history books. A year that dawned to the chime of change soon got bogged down in intractable troubles. No subject appeared more often on this page than the conflicts raging in the volatile crescent from Iraq and Iran to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Second place went to our sour economy's ups and downs--the job losses and con artists, the green shoots and Black Fridays. Struggle abroad and struggle at home: surely those were defining glimpses of this Moment in our history...
While most Tsunami-hit areas have been rebuilt, "there's still more work to be done," says Patrick Fuller of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Top of the list: preparing for the next disaster. A regional tsunami early-warning system has been up and running since 2006. But getting timely and accurate information to imperiled communities is problematic. Time is of the essence: Aceh, for example, sits on the northern tip of the seismologically hyperactive island of Sumatra, where an earthquake in the western city of Padang killed more than 1,000 people...