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High winds, winter weather delay flights in Denver
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AP - Strong wind gusts have delayed flights in Denver, downed power lines in Boulder, and prompted evacuations near a small grass fire in Boulder County.
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From Tohoku-oki Tsunami to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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ContributorNetwork - On March 11, 2011, an undersea 9.0 megathrust earthquake was triggered and sent a duel catastrophe rocketing into the coast of Japan. The Tohoku-oki Quake and Tsunami ended up creating the worst nuclear accident in 25 years and the most costly natural disaster in our recorded history. Approximately 20,000 people died from this disaster primarily to drowning. Entire coastal communities and ports were crushed under 3-6 meter waves, producing an estimated 20 million tons of debris.
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One Year Later: Lessons Learned from Deadly Japan Earthquake
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LiveScience.com - VANCOUVER, British Columbia — In 2011, Japan was one of the most prepared countries in the world for a massive earthquake. Yet when a mega-quake hit Japan last March, sparking a huge tsunami, it was shockingly devastating.
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2 US rescue helicopters in Montenegro
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AP - Two U.S. helicopters arrived in Montenegro Wednesday to join rescue operations in the areas of the tiny Balkan state hit by the heaviest snowfall in 60 years.
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The nations weather
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AP - Weather Underground Forecast for Wednesday, February 22, 2012.
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Chile says Peru border to reopen by late Wednesday
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AP - Chile's government says it will reopen the border with Peru by Wednesday night, following heavy rains that displaced land mines and floated some onto the Pan-American Highway.
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Photos make slow way home in tsunami-hit Japan
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Reuters - 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 with magnifying glasses pore over boxes of photographs of friends or loved ones.
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Southern snowstorm leaves icy roads, power outages
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 AP - A day after a winter storm dumped several inches of snow on a handful of southern states, crews worked Monday to restore power to tens of thousands of customers as police responded to dozens of accidents on slippery roads.
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Cold winter kills at least 40 in Afghanistan
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 AP - More than 40 people, most of them children, have frozen to death in what has been Afghanistan's coldest winter in years, an Afghan health official said Monday.
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NWS: Storm to bring snow to parts of South
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AP - Forecasters say wintry weather will be bringing snow to parts of the Southeast this holiday weekend after what has so far been a mild season.
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Joplin High School Demolition Begins Amid Tornado Tourism Controversy
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ContributorNetwork - KOAM-TV reports demolition of Joplin High School began Friday nearly nine months after a deadly EF5 tornado swept through the city of 50,000 people. The building will be torn down to make way for a new school to be constructed at the same site beginning in May. The building's demolition comes at a time when the Joplin Convention and Visitors Bureau is under fire for a tourist map that has citizens upset over "tornado tourism."
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Radiation ruled out, for now, as cause of Alaska seal deaths
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Reuters - Preliminary tests appear to rule out radiation from Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant as the cause of mysterious deaths and illness that struck scores of Alaska seals last year, federal officials said on Friday.
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Nuclear crisis turns Japan ex-PM Kan into energy apostle
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Reuters - Nearly a year after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger crisis forcing tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo and threatening the nation's existence.
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Japan's nuclear safety standards called flawed
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 AP - Japan's nuclear safety chief said Wednesday the country's regulations are flawed, outdated and below global standards, and he apologized for their failure when a tsunami crippled one plant last year.
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Japan planned review of tsunami risk, but too late
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 AP - Four days before a tsunami devastated a Japanese nuclear plant, its operator promised a fuller assessment of the risk of such a disaster — but not for seven months.
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In Joplin, young professionals hear call to serve
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 AP - One worked in financial services. Another was an insurance agent. A third had recently finished law school and embarked on a legal career.
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Judge sets Nov. trial date for Whitey Bulger
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AP - A magistrate judge on Monday set a Nov. 5 trial date for James "Whitey" Bulger, rejecting a plea from the reputed gangster's lawyers for more time to prepare.
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Wintry mix pelts south central U.S., icy temps chill east
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Reuters - The south central United States was pelted with a wintry mix of snow and freezing rain that threatened travel on Sunday, while frigid temperatures chilled the East Coast during what has been an unseasonably mild winter, forecasters said.
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Cold weather returns to the South; snow possible
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AP - Cold weather has been making a comeback in the South this weekend, after what's been a very mild winter so far.
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Japan priest fights invisible demon: radiation
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 Reuters - On the snowy fringes of Japan's Fukushima city, now notorious as a byword for nuclear crisis, Zen monk Koyu Abe offers prayers for the souls of thousands left dead or missing after the earthquake and tsunami nearly one year ago.
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