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...were also reduced to ruins. Grant, sleeping in a country home 45 miles (about 70 km) away, awoke to the walls of her room shaking. "Things were falling down, cracking. Everything was rattling," she recalls. The next day, her adviser, a professor of biology at Oxford University named Tim Halliday, e-mailed to make sure she hadn't been hurt. "I wrote to him, 'I'm O.K., but the toads are gone,' " she says. "He wrote back, 'This could be interesting. Why don't we look at it further?' " (See pictures of the L'Aquila earthquake...
...documented changes in the behavior of birds, mice and domestic animals immediately before the earth's beginning to shake. But the idea never gained much traction. The very difficulty of predicting earthquakes makes it hard to study how animals react to them. "This was a completely fortuitous event," says Halliday. "It would be practically impossible to plan research like this. You'd spend a lot of time watching toads with nothing happening." (Read "Why Chile's Quake Wasn't Unexpected...
...imperial figure. Zhou's guiding philosophy might have been taken from the Confucian Analects: "If the emperor asks you to die, you should die." And, indeed, Mao apparently asked no less. Gao confirms an assertion made in Mao: The Unknown Story, the 2005 biography by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, that Mao purposefully denied Zhou medical care for the cancer that ultimately killed him. Gao even suggests that Mao may have ordered fireworks to celebrate his Premier's demise...
...smelly durian is like a thornless rose. It's really cutting out the soul.' BOB HALLIDAY, Bangkok-based food writer, on a Thai scientist's development of an odorless variety of durian, a popular Asian fruit so pungent it is banned from some airlines and hotels
...Unknown Story,” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday...