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Japan Faces Up to Failure of Its Earthquake Preparations
By David Cyranoski of Nature magazine TOKYO Japan has the world’s densest seismometer network, the biggest tsunami barriers and the most extensive earthquake early-warning system. [More]

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Right time for Pres. Obama to go to Latin America?
(PHOTO CREDIT: VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images) FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty: President Obama is in Chile today, the second stop on a three-nation, five-day trip to South and Central America. It’s his first time in the region since he took office. But it comes at a time when our country is suddenly involved in another hostile military [...]

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