On August 23, 2011, a rare, magnitude 5.8 quake struck in Virginia and jolted the East Coast. Here are stories about the event and background on earthquake science [More]
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Rather than use plastic silverware to combat a common side effect of chemo, patients now can use these silverware-like utensils that don't ruin food. It's a common problem for cancer patients: Chemotherapy changes the taste buds so that using metal silverware suddenly causes a bitter metallic aftertaste. Plastic cutlery is one alternative, but it's not exactly the most environmentally friendly, elegant, or cost-effective option
Read More »Looking for dominance in an era of parity
If the PGA Tour really wanted to put a positive spin on the playoffs, it could claim that three of the four FedEx Cup champions were voted player of the year.
Read More »Cruise lines offer prepaid packages for booze
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., which includes Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises, has taken a lead in expanding the prepaid concept to alcoholic beverages.
Read More »Cold Case: Low-Temperature Tolerant Bavarian Beer Yeasts Traced to South America
A stowaway strain of yeast, crossing the Atlantic centuries ago, may be responsible for a cool quarter-trillion-dollar beverage industry today. [More]
Read More »The Navy Likes Google+ Because Facebook Isn’t Private Enough
The United States Navy is considering embracing Google+ for communicating with sailors and the greater public. The reason, it seems, mostly has to do with Facebook's counterintuitive security settings
Read More »Strong U.S. East Coast Quake Highly Unusual – Scientist
*Eastern bedrock means quake felt over wide area *Aftershocks likely for months to come [More]
Read More »Egotist Rex: Are a Dictator’s Defiant Statements Indicative of Self-Delusion?
Six months after a civil uprising began in Libya, Col. Muammar Qadhafi, the nation's longtime leader, finally seems to have lost his grip on the country he ruled for more than 40 years. Did he also, at some point, lose his grip on reality?
Read More »PGT: Daly, Mediate to play Nationwide Tour event
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Read More »The East Coast Earthquake in Pictures [Slide Show]
NEW YORK--A magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook parts of the mid-Atlantic U.S. and New England Tuesday afternoon sent workers and residents streaming outdoors. In lower Manhattan , surrounding the Scientific American office, vehicle traffic quickly came to a standstill--with New York Police Department officers ordering drivers to back their vehicles out of the Holland Tunnel
Read More »-Earthquake rattles U.S. East Coast, no deaths
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Read More »GolfChannel: No regrets losing to Tiger in Amateur
GolfChannel: Fifteen years later, Steve Scott is still reminded daily of his loss to Tiger Woods in the 1996 U.S. Amateur
Read More »UPDATED: Earthquake Shakes U.S. East Coast
Minutes ago, our 17-story building swayed side to side for a few seconds. [More]
Read More »Quake shakes U.S. capital, buildings evacuated
WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - An earthquake shookWashigton on Tuesday, and the U.S. Capitol building, the [More]
Read More »Volunteer Field Observer Program
Help monitor shoreline conditions along Alabama's coast and alert officials of places where oil washed ashore and where wildlife was (and is) affected [More]
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