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If you get to see this before about six Pacific time on Friday, it should still show the planet literally vibrating from the Japan quake, just like it did after the great Banda Acha quake and tusnami. It’s fortunate that this tsunami has the whole Pacific to raise hell in, not a smaller area like the South China Sea, which could lead to anothe Banda Acha. http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2.shtml
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An earthquake measuring between 8.4 and 8.9 on the Richter Scale has struck at a shallow depth off the coast of northern Japan and tsunami warnings have been posted for Russia, the Marcus Islands, the Northern Marianas and coastal Japan. Guam, Taiwan, New Guinea, Indonesia, the Phillippines and Hawaii are also under tsunami warnings. It is becoming clear that the tsunami has caused an enormous disaster in Japan. So far, there are reports of injuries but no casualty reports. The tsunami has penetrated the Japanese countryside to a distance of many miles in populated areas. Fires are being reported in many areas, including Tokyo. Tsunami waves are expected to hit the US west coast beginning at around 7:30 Sunday morning.read more

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I just saw an extraordinary film: "Of Gods and Men." This is based on the true story of a group of French monks living in Algeria in 1996 when Muslim fundamentalist terrorism was just taking hold in the country. At the time, Algeria was (as it is today) a mostly Muslim country, but the monks living there were accepted because they reached out to the locals, dispensing medicine to children, for instance. We see these monks talking with the children as they help heal them, and learning more about the culture that they live in the midst of in this way.
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Researchers have found that when choosing a partner, women believe the lower the man’s voice, the more likely he’s going to cheat. Men think the opposite: that a woman with a higher voice is more likely to be unfaithful. Participants in a recent study were asked to listen to two versions of recorded clips from a male voice and a female voice, which were electronically manipulated to be both higher and lower in pitch. They were then asked which one, from each pair, was more likely to cheat sexually on their romantic partner.
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