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Weather taskforce to warn Haiti of hurricanes
(AFP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:59:41 GMT
AFP - Caribbean weather experts launched a task force Friday to provide Haiti storm forecasts amid fears the 2010 hurricane season could devastate the country's already fragile infrastructure.
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Tropical Storm Hubert kills 14 in Madagascar
(AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:03:28 GMT AP - Madagascar's disaster officials say at least 14 people have died and 32,000 have been affected by Tropical Storm Hubert. |
Report blasts firm overseeing Katrina recovery
(AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:58:11 GMT AP - An engineering firm hired to oversee the reconstruction of city buildings and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina has been overcharging the city, including billing for theater tickets and a flight to Las Vegas, an internal investigation found. |
Ex-New Orleans officer pleads in shooting cover-up
(AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:18:42 GMT
AP - A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to covering up the deadly shooting of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina, with a judge calling the plot a "despicable" scheme that immeasurably compounded the storm's damage.
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Ex-policeman pleads guilty in Katrina killing case
(Reuters)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:12:56 GMT Reuters - A former New Orleans police detective who now works as a U.S. immigration agent has pleaded guilty to helping cover up the shooting deaths of two people by police days after Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department said on Thursday. |
Hurricane season forecast: seven storms to reach land
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:50:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - America may have already had a âsnowicaneâ this year, but now some weather forecasters are focusing on the real thing â you know, those monster storms with names like Donna or Andrew that pelt the coast with 100-mile-per-hour winds, massive amounts of rain, and tidal surges. |
Katrina victims seek to sue greenhouse gas emitters
(AFP)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:03:05 GMT
AFP - Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the devastating 2005 storm, legal documents showed.
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Alternative Spring Breaks Combine Service, Learning
(U.S. News & World Report)
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:50:43 GMT U.S. News & World Report - Instead of relaxing on white, sandy beaches this spring break, thousands of college students will travel around the globe to volunteer for a variety of social justice causes. Known as "alternative spring breaks," these are public-service-oriented trips, planned and led by students, that focus on volunteerism and education about social justice issues in the United States or overseas. From rebuilding homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina to tutoring students in a remote village in Ecuador, these trips can open students' eyes to issues both close to home and far away. |
Power restored in much of storm-battered Northeast
(AP)
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:28:55 GMT
AP - Many of the more than 1 million Northeastern homes and businesses plunged into the dark by a storm were running on electricity Monday, three days after the hard-hitting combination of snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.
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Europe storm death toll at 62; France hardest hit
(AP)
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:08:45 GMT
AP - Rescue workers in dinghies cruised flooded streets on France's Atlantic coast Monday, searching for people still trapped in their homes by storms that smashed through concrete sea walls and killed at least 62 people across Western Europe.
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Death toll hits 53 as storms lash Europe
(AFP)
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:19:06 GMT
AFP - Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe on Sunday, leaving at least 53 people dead and more than a million households without power.
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Storm moves into France leaving three dead
(AFP)
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:09:15 GMT
AFP - A powerful storm packing hurricane-force winds moved north to the west coast of France on Sunday after lashing Spain and Portugal, killing at least three people and causing transport chaos.
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Three killed as storm lashes Spain, Portugal and France
(AFP)
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:41:37 GMT
AFP - A powerful storm packing hurricane-force winds lashed Spain, Portugal and France on Saturday, killing at least three people, leaving tens of thousands of homes without power and causing transport chaos.
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NH hotel fire fanned by strong wind destroys block
(AP)
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:44:42 GMT
AP - A fire that started in an unoccupied oceanfront hotel was fanned by hurricane-force winds and spread to several nearby buildings, engulfing and destroying an entire block of businesses on a stretch of Hampton Beach popular with summer tourists. No injuries were reported.
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Only plastic between Haiti homeless and storms
(Reuters)
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:17:01 GMT
Reuters - Seasonal rains and hurricanes spell trouble for Haiti in the best of times, but with hundreds of thousands of people living in flimsy makeshift shelters after last month's earthquake, this year the dangers are much greater.
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Number of storms may drop, but more could be intense, study says
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:32:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - The number of hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical storms globally is likely to either fall or remain flat over the course of the 21st century. But an increasing proportion of the storms are likely to hit the highest levels of intensity because of the projected effects of global warming, an international team of scientists concludes. |
Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes
(AP)
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:38:59 GMT
AP - Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun.
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HUD: Redevelopment of razed public housing at risk
(AP)
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:31:47 GMT AP - Nearly two years after the contentious bulldozing of large tracts of public housing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a federal report now says that the planned redevelopment of a large portion of that land is in jeopardy. |
Galveston fears post-Ike Census means lost funds
(AP)
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:26:10 GMT
AP - Nearly 1 1/2 years after Hurricane Ike battered Galveston, this southeast Texas island community fears the natural disaster could land another harsh blow.
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Cyclone misses American Samoa, turns toward Tonga
(AP)
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:35:10 GMT
AP - A powerful tropical storm missed American Samoa early Saturday morning, causing heavy rains and high winds but sparing more devastation to the U.S. territory battered by a deadly autumn tsunami.
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 13, 2010 is:
acronym \AK-ruh-nim\ noun
: a word formed from the beginning letter or letters of each or most of the parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation formed from initial letters
Example sentence:
The new committee spent a fair amount of time choosing a name that would lend itself to an appealing acronym.
Did you know?
"Acronym" was created by combining "acr-" ("beginning") with "-onym," ("name" or "word"). You may recognize "-onym" in other familiar English words such as "pseudonym" and "synonym." English speakers borrowed "-onym" directly from the Greek (it derives from "onyma," the Greek word for "name"). "Acr-" is also from Greek, but it made a side trip through Middle French on its way to English. When "acronym" first entered English, some usage commentators decreed that it should refer to combinations of initial letters that were pronounced as if they were whole words (such as "radar" or "scuba"), differentiated from an "initialism," which is spoken by pronouncing the component letters (as "FBI" and "CEO"). These days, however, that distinction is largely lost, and "acronym" is a common label for both types of abbreviation.
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