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It’s sort of awkward being a college journalist.Sure, as far as journalists go, we’re blessed. Most of the events we need to cover occur within a half-mile radius of our homes (Quadlings excluded), our subjects and sources eat meals in the same dining halls as we, and we don’t have to work with schmucks like Joe Morgan. Of course, for every 10 home games we cover, there’s a trip down the ever-dangerous Muller Hill Road, but professional journalists generally have much more trying lives than student...
...Given the size of the quake, damage can be expected with a 100 km radius of the epicenter, says Robbie Morris, a project scientist with the Australian Tsunami Warning System. "If you are quite close in ... at the scene, shaking will be very violent with visible cracking of ground, quite likely with heavy damage around epicenter," Morris says. The distance of the earthquake from Chengdu, which has 10 million residents, helped prevent more extensive damage. "Going as far as Chengdu ... you can expect have quite strong shaking but much lighter damage. That will depend on local buildings and local building...
...chance of actually hitting Mars, which means astronomers would be wise to be pessimistic. But the possibility of impact calls to mind a loosely related incident that occurred almost exactly 100 years ago, when something exploded above the Tunguska region of Siberia, flattening trees in a 25-mile radius, their trunks pointing outward from the epicenter of the blast. Scientists are pretty sure it was a comet or asteroid - about the same size as 2007 WD5, as it happens - that disintegrated from its own shock wave as it plowed through the atmosphere. (UFO enthusiasts have long been convinced...
...around, check the candidates' campaign schedules, listed daily in the Des Moines Register (in print or, even better, online) or on your favorite candidate's website. At www.fred.08.com, for example, you can find out if there's a Fred Thompson event within a five-mile radius of your zip code (although the event may not feature Fred in the flesh, and for details, you must first sign up as a "Friend of Fred...
...very well play host to something even greater: the renaissance of live music at Harvard. Well, as long as the money holds out.Sponsored by campus radio station WHRB and the College Events Board (CEB), the pub will present a night of performances by Harvard’s own DJs Radius and Quiet, preeminent Harvard band The Sinister Turns, and New York independent rockers Nightmare of You. The entire performance will be broadcast live on WHRB, allowing Harvard students and members of the station’s greater Boston following to tune in.“We?...