Seward, Alaska
The U.S. strengthened its defenses against killer waves this week, installing four new tsunami-warning buoys off the southern coast of Alaska. The high-tech buoys detect large waves as they move across the ocean, transmitting data to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists onshore. NOAA now has 19 buoys in its network, scattered around the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. The agency aims to install 39 by 2008.
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talking pointsWill business leaders face a backlash after the midterms?
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QUOTE OF THE DAY‘They don’t want to have to go all over the place changing their clocks. And even churches and municipal governments — they have to hire cranes to go up.’
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today’s big questionHow will a small-market World Series affect baseball?
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