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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 29 weeks 1 day 21 hours 57 minutes ago
Zhang Yimou -- one of the world's greatest film directors ("Red Sorghum," "Raise the Red Lantern,") shot this short about the Chengdu, a city considered by many to be one of China's most beautiful.
Since Chengdu was near the epicenter of today's earthquake it's worth looking...(more)
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submitted by Ari 58 weeks 4 hours 12 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wildfires threatened to shut down the last remaining major power transmission link to San Diego, which would make the Californian county an electricity "island", susceptible to major blackouts, the manager of the state power grid said Wednesday.
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submitted by Grace 69 weeks 2 days 9 hours 3 minutes ago
In the days after the Interstate 35W bridge collapse claimed the lives of at least five people and injured more than 100, rescue divers are taking every precaution to make sure they don't join the tally of victims of the greatest disaster in modern Minnesota history....(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 54 weeks 6 days 14 hours 54 minutes ago
The Coast Guard was rocked by new developments Wednesday in the wake of the huge San Francisco Bay oil spill as the agency shoved aside its Bay Area disaster commander, began a wide-ranging probe of its actions after the accident and admitted it had mishandled drug...(more)
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submitted by elvis 28 weeks 2 days 15 hours 39 minutes ago
A state news agency says more than 200 relief workers have been buried by a mudslide in Sichuan province.
The Xinhua News Agency on Monday did not immediately have any other details of the accident.
The Chinese government has estimated that the May 12 earthquake killed as many...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 3 weeks 3 days 22 hours 7 minutes ago
When four huge storms struck this summer, one after another in the space of 30 days, Haiti never stood a chance.
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submitted by Oscar Contreras 58 weeks 22 hours 30 minutes ago
This is coverage from SignOn San Diego describing the setup at Qualcomm stadium -- early in the game because there aren't a lot of people there when this was shot.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours 6 minutes ago
Wildfires destroyed hundreds of homes in southern California yesterday, closing major roads and forcing thousands of residents to escape to safety. The flames swept across a trailer park in Los Angeles, scorching trees and beating back firefighters.'We have almost total devastation in the mobile park,' said...(more)
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submitted by paul 25 weeks 6 days 7 hours 32 minutes ago
Authorities sounded new warnings over possible flooding in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province as the water level in a lake ...
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submitted by Mr X 57 weeks 5 days 6 hours 43 minutes ago
SANTA YSABEL, California (Reuters) - As California struggles to extinguish some of the state's most devastating forest fires, it has turned to a record number of prisoners for some of the most demanding work.
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submitted by Ari 58 weeks 23 hours 53 minutes ago
If they have an answering machine instead of voicemail, some evacuees from the raging Southern California fires are phoning home to see if the machine picks up -- if it does, they know the power is on and the house is still standing.
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submitted by Ari 58 weeks 23 hours 54 minutes ago
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters all but conceded defeat Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has already chased nearly a million people away....
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