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Post-Tsunami, 'We're Expecting 100 Sneakers With Bones In Them'

AP | Posted 05.24.2012

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PORT ANGELES, Wash. -- An oceanographer who tracks flotsam says West Coast beachcombers may find floating athletic shoes with human remains as more de...

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Searching for a Balance With Nature and Self

George Heymont | Posted 04.30.2012

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George Heymont

Jiro Dreams of Sushi is balanced between the story of a remote and complex father and capturing the fine art of making sushi and photographing it in the immediacy of its freshness. It is also filled with surprises -- like watching how someone gets a live octopus into a plastic bag!

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Fukushima's Nuclear Nightmare Is Far From Over (or the Disturbingly Deadly Act of Placing Profits Before People)

Vivian Norris | Posted 04.17.2012

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Vivian Norris

Why does Fukushima still matter? Because no matter what TEPCO or the authorities have claimed, the reactors and the fuel pools are unstable.

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PHOTOS: An Earthquake And Culinary Curiosities In Penang

Monique Stringfellow | Posted 04.16.2012

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Monique Stringfellow

Back at our hotel, the tsunami watch was on and a security team kept watch, cellphones in hand, waiting for word from the nearby island of Langkawi, which, in the event of a tsunami, would experience the tidal wave.

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Tsunami Warning Issued After Giant Quake Hits Near Indonesia

AP | FAKHRURRADZIE GADE | Posted 04.13.2012

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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Cries of panic and fervent prayers rang out Wednesday as Indonesians rushed toward high ground after two strong earthqu...

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Aging and the Importance of Belonging

Lewis Richmond | Posted 05.21.2012

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Lewis Richmond

Human beings of every age need to belong.

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Strong Quake Shakes Northern Japan

AP | Posted 05.14.2012

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By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press TOKYO -- A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no appare...

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Why Did the 2011 Japan Tsunami Kill So Many People?

Bruce Parker | Posted 05.11.2012

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Bruce Parker

With so little time to try to escape, tsunami preparedness becomes the most important thing in saving lives. Unfortunately, the response of many Japanese to that warning was inadequate due to their lack of tsunami preparedness training.

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Japan Marks One-Year Anniversary Of Tsunami

AP | MIKI TODA and MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 05.10.2012

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RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan — For 70-year-old Toshiko Murakami, memories of the terrifying earthquake and tsunami that destroyed much of her seaside to...

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3/11 Japanese Earthquake - The Untold Stories Of Spiritual Response

Katherine Marshall | Posted 05.10.2012

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Katherine Marshall

In the tsunami's immediate aftermath the practical sides of religion came into play. Places of worship in Japan are said to outnumber convenience stores by a factor of four and community centers by a factor of nine.

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Tsunami, Destruction And Creation

Thomas Shomaker | Posted 05.05.2012

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Thomas Shomaker

An overwhelmingly coastal population living in an earthquake-prone region also understands that regardless of the plans one makes, circumstances can intervene and sweep them away.

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Tsunami Science: Where And When Will The Next Wave Hit? (PHOTOS)

Posted 03.01.2012

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Japan is one of the world's best-prepared countries when it comes to earthquakes and tsunamis, according to National Geographic. Tsunami detectors mon...

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Scientists: 'It's Increasing The Risk Of Death And Destruction'

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 03.01.2012

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Less than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing almost 16,000 people and causing nuclear accidents, the Obama administration is proposing t...

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Lost Photos Find Their Way Home

Reuters | Chris Meyers | Posted 02.21.2012

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By Chris Meyers In a large, bright room not far from the ocean that raged through this coastal Japanese city nearly a year ago, a handful of people...

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Puerto Rico Installing Tsunami Sirens In Capital

AP | Posted 01.16.2012

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico is setting up a tsunami alert system in densely populated San Juan. San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini says experts wa...

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Top Viral Videos You Must Watch Before 2011 Ends

Lee Brenner | Posted 02.26.2012

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Lee Brenner

So as your favorite websites post their Top 10s and Best 10s and Worst 10s of 2011, we thought we'd just post 10 videos we enjoyed this year -- some you will have definitely seen, some you may not have. They're not the best or worst. They're just cool.

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7 Years After Tsunami Swept Her Away, Girl Finds Her Way Home

AP | By FAKHRURRADZIE GADE | Posted 02.22.2012

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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago said Friday she broke down in tears this week after tra...

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2011 in Video: Shook Us All Year Long

Lee Brenner | Posted 02.20.2012

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Lee Brenner

We give you the definitive retrospective of the most significant year in recent memory, 12 powerful months marked by fighting for freedom, protesting inequality, watching in awe the fury of nature and wincing at sex and abuse scandals.

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The Future's Orange...The Future's Orange Business Services

Monty Munford | Posted 02.14.2012

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Monty Munford

It's not every day that I am presented with a silk scarf, have to negotiate a terrestrial design of lotus flowers and have a bindi plastered to the mi...

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Amusement Parks In New Mexico: A Huffington Post Travel Guide

The Huffington Post | Lisa Lacy | Posted 12.07.2011

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Amusement parks in New Mexico offer plenty of options for even the most jaded park-goers, including one of the top 25 wooden roller coasters in the wo...

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PHOTOS: 8 Months After Tsunami, 'Murky Future' For Disaster Zone

AP | By MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 01.18.2012

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SENDAI, Japan -- From 1,000 feet (300 meters) up, the view of the tsunami-battered Japanese seaside communities shows striking progress: much of the r...

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Japan Tsunami Debris Floating Toward Hawaii

AP | JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | Posted 12.25.2011

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HONOLULU — Up to 20 million tons of tsunami debris floating from Japan could arrive on Hawaii's shores by early 2013, before reaching the West C...

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I Don't Care if You Send Locusts, Sweetheart. You're Still Having a Memorial Service.

Susan McCorkindale | Posted 11.29.2011

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Susan McCorkindale

"Susan, did you hear me? No service." "Yes, sweetheart," I said, going to him. "I heard you." And then I bent down, kissed him, and lied straight to his still so handsome face. "No service."

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Watch: Did Japan Ignore Own Radiation Forecast?

Posted 10.09.2011

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The Japanese government is reeling from new allegations that it suppressed information during the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. I...

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Japan Withheld Information About Nuclear Disaster From Evacuees

The New York Times | NORIMITSU ONISHI and MARTIN FACKLER | Posted 10.08.2011

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FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- The day after a giant tsunami set off the continuing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, thousands of residents at th...

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