Month: March 2011

By Ora Coren The CEO of the Israeli company that installed the security system at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant said Thursday that those workers

At a time when all the tough guys in Washington are making plans to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits for high-living seniors and to

With peer to peer digital currencies like BitCoin, it seems our ideas about what money is and isn’t, are in flux. Take the cell phone

By Ben Dowell The BBC World Service is to receive a “significant” sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of

Earthquakes strike suddenly, violently and without warning. Identifying potential hazards ahead of time and advance planning can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss

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Opponents contend the state’s open meetings law was violated.

By Johann Hari The vast majority of people behave in the aftermath as altruists, saving their fellow human beings and sharing what they have. Before

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