Meteor impact leads to great dying, allowing proliferation of dinosaurs. This event is not to be confused with the impact event that later killed off the dinosaurs.
This is how you flush an entire lake down a hole. An exploratory drilling exercise miscalculates the location of a salt mine while drilling through a lake bed. The mine is hit, and the oil derek, the mine, the lake, and a few barges are a total loss.
The Earth is formed by accretion of spatial particulates and large masses and eventually formes an outer crust. Video follows with speculation of early plates and land masses and their movement through time.
Simi Valley California was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history in 1959, and the amounts of radiation leaked to the environment and atomosphere were more than 240 times that of the accident at 3-Mile Island. The area is beautiful today, but what still remains from many decades ago?
Retirement by the Numbers - Wall Street Journal San Francisco -- There's no shortage of online retirement calculators promising to tell you how much you need to save for retirement. But because these Internet tools use different assumptions, users get divergent advice even though they're using the ...
The United States' growing Medicare problem - Ithaca Journal In the debates, speeches and press conferences, our presidential candidates spend a great deal of time talking about Iraq, NAFTA, immigration, jobs and other issues, but none want to talk specifically about the greatest threat to our economy — the ...