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A survivor cuts woods for fire to warm at a shelter in the devastated town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, March 28, 2011. The March 11 quake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore and disabled the Fukushima nuclear complex. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (AP)

Unpacking for a disaster

Rebecca Solnit
What you need to survive the unexpected
In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011. Official says the TEPCO temporarily evacuated its workers from the site. At left is Unit 2 and at right is Unit 4. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

The worst that could happen in Japan

Tom Engelhardt
What's missing in the media's Fukushima coverage? Thinking the unthinkable
FILE - In this July 16, 2008 file photo, Carlos Pascual, listens during a press conference in Berlin. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual, who criticized his host government's handling of the drug problem in a cable divulged by the WikiLeaks website, has resigned, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday, March 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns, File) (AP)

US ambassador to Mexico quits amid WikiLeaks furor

Alexandra Olson
Diplomat outed by Wikileaks as critical of Mexican campaign against drug cartels was pressured to resign
Bishop Aldo Giodano, permanent observer for the Vatican at the Council of Europe, answers questions of journalists at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, Friday March 18, 2011. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that crucifixes are acceptable in public school classrooms. The ruling will be binding on all 47 countries that are members of the Council of Europe, the continent's human rights watchdog. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz) (AP)

Vatican praises EU decision on crucifixes in class

Victor L. Simpson
The Vatican welcomed the high court's decision as it campaigns to remind Europe of its Catholic roots
The damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan, on Tuesday March 15, 2011. White smoke billows from the No. 3 unit. Right: The Chernobyl site in 2008.

Six ways Fukushima is not Chernobyl

Lois Beckett
The Chernobyl meltdown was the result of negligence and a series of bad decisions. Japan's problems are different
Maksim Gelman, of Brooklyn, who is accused of going on a 28-hour stabbing rampage through New York City, center, is lead by officers outside the 61st Precinct in the Brooklyn borough of New York Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/David Karp) (AP)

New York crime spree suspect told cops: I had “doozy of a day”

Associated Press
Chilling remarks from man accused of stabbing four people to death over 28-hour binge last month in New York City
Officials wearing protective suits chat as they usher people through a radiation emergency scanning center in Koriyama, Japan, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 four days after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) (AP)

Japan nuclear crisis most perilous since Chernobyl

Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa
Conditions continue to deteriorate at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant days after devastating earthquake, tsunami
In this image made off Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Japan’s blasts cast doubt on nuclear renaissance

Angela Charlton, John Heilprin
Several countries are already freezing plans to build new reactors as Japan's nuclear crisis grabs headlines
A man holds his baby as they are scanned for levels of radiation in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 13, 2011. Friday's quake and tsunami damaged two nuclear reactors at a power plant in the prefecture, and at least one of them appeared to be going through a partial meltdown, raising fears of a radiation leak. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) (AP)

Nuke industry spin: Be “reassured” by Japan

Justin Elliott
As the crisis unfolds, the Nuclear Energy Institute joins an intense PR battle that has already started
A man is scanned for levels of radiation in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 13, 2011. Friday's quake and tsunami damaged two nuclear reactors at a power plant in the prefecture, and at least one of them appeared to be going through a partial meltdown, raising fears of a radiation leak. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) (AP)

Japan races to avert multiple nuclear meltdowns

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi
More than 170,000 evacuated from Japan's northeast coast as authorities work to mitigate risk of nuclear disaster
This October 2008 photo shows the Fukushima No. 1 power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. at Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Japan's top government spokesman says the country has issued a state of emergency at the nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed. There was no radiation leak. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA (AP)

Why Japan probably won’t face a new Chernobyl

Mary Mycio
The explosion at Fukushima shows how far we've come in nuclear safety. It also proves how vulnerable we still are
Maksim Gelman, of Brooklyn, who is accused of going on a 28-hour stabbing rampage through New York City, center, is lead by officers outside the 61st Precinct in the Brooklyn borough of New York Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/David Karp) (AP)

NYC stabbing spree fits no mold; suspect indicted

Colleen Long
Authorities struggle to make sense of grisly crime spree with no easy explanations
The house in the Brooklyn borough of New York where Maksim Gelman lived and where police say he killed his stepfather on Friday morning, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011. The 23-year-old Brooklyn man was in custody Saturday after a 28-hour stabbing rampage that took the lives of his stepfather, his ex-girlfriend and her mother, and led to a nightlong manhunt across New York City, police said. Authorities said Gelman also hijacked a car, stabbing and wounding the driver and fatally hitting a pedestrian. (AP Photo/David Karp) (AP)

Suspect in NYC stabbing spree headed to court

Colleen Long
Brooklyn man charged with stabbing four people to death over 28 hours this weekend

I was a doctor accustomed to death, but not his

Marc Agronin
Working in nursing homes taught me about old age -- but I was unprepared for my grandfather's last days
Model of Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant where reports say computer virus penetrated control systems

Preliminary report warns of Iran nuke disaster

George Jahn
Nuclear plant infiltrated by computer worm, reactor with disabled control system has force of "small nuclear bomb"
Russian Presiden Dmitry Medvedev, visits the Sklifosovsky emergency hospital where some people injured in a suicide bombing at Moscow's main airport on Monday are being treated, in Moscow, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. At right is Director of the Sklifosovsky emergency hospital Anzor Khubuti, (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service) (AP)

Russian president fires police chief after bombing

Jim Heintz
The sometimes hesitant Dmitry Medvedev took assertive action towards men he believe could have stopped a tragedy
The perfect set of preconditions for a global tsunami of instability and turmoil may be in place.

Welcome to the year of living dangerously

Michael T. Klare
Are riots, protests, revolts, mounting oil prices, and mammoth worldwide unemployment the new norm?
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Is Lockheed Martin shadowing you?

William D. Hartung
How a giant weapons maker became the new Big Brother
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Glenn Beck’s five-point plan for world domination

Emma Mustich
By his own criteria (applied this week to George Soros), the conservative host seems poised for a major coup
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U.N.: World is healthier, richer than ever before

Anita Snow
A new report shows most developing countries registering huge gains over the last 40 years
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Iran, Venezuela leaders seek “new world order”

Ali Akbar Dareini
Ahmadinejad and Chavez promote a "strategic alliance" with oil agreements, joint shipping venture
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The misguided reaction to Tea Party candidates

Glenn Greenwald
The condescension toward these new right-wing standard-bearers seems more cultural than ideological
France's Kenza Drider , wearing a niqab, drives a car in Avignon, southern France, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. A ban on the burqa-style veil, to be voted on Tuesday in the Senate, would affect only a tiny minority of Muslim women _ estimated at less than 2,000 _ making it far less controversial than France's 2004 ban on Muslim headscarves in classrooms, which proliferated in heavily immigrant neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) (AP)

French Senate passes veil ban

Tracy Clark-Flory
But the bill could still face challenges. Also: What would Sarkozy make of recent reports of veiled Hasidim?
In a photo provided by the Miss Universe OrganizationJimena Navarrete, Miss Mexico 2010, wears her national costume for a pre taped segment of the 2010 Miss Universe Competition at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Prather/Miss Universe Organization LP, LLLP) (AP)

Miss Universe and the death of the beauty pageant

Louis Bayard
Even as a gay man, I couldn't find joy or fun in last night's monument to wax figurines and Donald Trump
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