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...hundreds to wait for the autumn refreeze. So it's where tourists and scientists go, to gawk at and study the huge white predators. Just south of Churchill, the Canadian government recently created Wapusk National Park (wapusk means "white bear" in the indigenous Cree language) to protect the area where pregnant females dig their dens. (See the top 10 invasive species...
...first tsunami warning sirens went off, blaring for 10 minutes - as they would every hour throughout the state. (They went off again at 7 a.m., in case anyone missed it.) By then, news of the massive quake in Chile had already filtered into hotels and homes in the area. (See pictures of the earthquake aftermath in Chile...
...hotel to brief tourists of what to do. Keep away from the shore. And evacuate vertically - that is, to higher floors - if the word is given to do so. Public address systems repeated this information constantly on the streets of Waikiki as well as in all hotels in the area. (See the recovery from the great Indian Ocean tsunami...
...next project for the Committee is planning an Ethnic Studies conference which will include representatives from several schools in the Boston area. The event, slated for April 9, hopes to incorporate student papers, alumni panels, and a keynote speaker...
...response to the layers of initiatives that have made California government increasingly dysfunctional, the Bay Area Council business group announced a plan last year to put an initiative on the ballot to hold a new constitutional convention. But two weeks ago, its Reform California campaign ran out of money. One reason: Kimball's firm and others, fearing such a convention might change the initiative business, warned their contractors against carrying the petitions. Very few of the signature gatherers at the shopping malls across California are volunteers; nearly all are contractors like Birch, working for firms hired by the state...