Magnitude 8.8 (from Japan to Argentina)
Tsunami Alerts has been sent out to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia.
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Updates from various countries HERE
via LAtimes.com.
Read the article and bear in mind that 500 euros = 675 $ = 442 £. Try and think of how you would live with that amount of money as your monthly pension/income.
via ‘Widespread fraud’ in California’s smog test program – latimes.com.
Way to go Californians 
via USATODAY.com.
Well, I didn’t know there are standard sizes. In the past 10 years I have noticed seats are getting smaller and smaller. Often, it’s not even the seat, it’s the space between seats. I haven’t grown up, my femures have been about the same length in the past 15 years, but now often my knees are splashed on the back of the seat in front of me. And I’m not a huge person, I’m 5’10″.
So much for the On Board Safety of passengers packed as sardines…
“The headline read “Why I lost my appetite for meat”, the article was by a favourite novelist, but my wife wouldn’t pick up the magazine. “If I read it, I know I’ll have to become a vegetarian again and I just can’t bear to,” she said. I was braver — nothing this side of Armageddon is going to make me give up meat — and I did read it. The excerpts from Jonathan Safran Foer’s new non-fiction book Eating Animals left me feeling uncomfortable — so much so that I had to read the whole thing.”
via Alex Renton – Times Online.
The debate still goes on… Is vegetarian the answer?
