Imagine San Francisco Airport under water, or Long Beach Harbor in Los Angeles, home to the second busiest port in America, washed away. Picture Orange County’s Newport Beach completely submerged under the encroaching ocean. That’s the soggy future that could be in place for California at the end of this century, if climate change continues unabated.
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One Victim Asks: Was It Worth It, Mr. Madoff?
Was it worth it, Mr. Madoff
Determination trumps fear in wake of Alabama rampage
People expressed fear leavened by resolve to carry on Wednesday in the rural southern Alabama area terrorized Tuesday by gunman Michael McLendon, who killed 10 people before fatally shooting himself. Sandy Morris and her young daughter narrowly missed being caught in the gunfire in Samson, where five of the victims were killed at a house near Morris’ hair salon. “My little girl and I had just walked across from the feed store
No Deal for Bernard Madoff, As Victims Prepare to Face Him in Court
Bernie Madoff’s lawyer, Ira Sorkin, told a federal Judge Denny Chin on Tuesday that Madoff expects to plead guilty to charges that will put him in prison for up to 150 years. The U.S.
Thrift-conscious say goodbye to cars, cell phones, other luxuries
Everyone’s trying to cut their budget this year, from the White House to big corporations to ordinary citizens. For many Americans, this means making big changes and going without things to which they’ve become accustomed
America becoming less Christian, survey finds
America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a survey published Monday found.
How to answer 10 tough interview questions
There’s no worse feeling than when you’re in an interview and the interviewer asks you a question to which you don’t know the answer.
It’s Not Easy Getting Green Jobs
Nathan Chan is the ideal worker for the new green economy.
Suicide car bomber kills seven in Pakistan
A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a police car on the outskirts of Peshawar Saturday, killing seven security personnel. But two high-ranking officers are doing just that, hoping that by going public they can remove the stigma that many soldiers say keeps them from getting help for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Spacecraft to blast off in search of ‘Earths’
Calling it a mission that may fundamentally change humanity’s view of itself, NASA on Friday prepared to launch a telescope that will search our corner of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planets. The Kepler spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space on top of a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida just before 11 p.m. ET.