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Stocking stuffer: Card good for eye, dental visit

Technology / Other

Dec 23, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- Health care providers are rolling out a different sort of stocking stuffer: Gift cards that can be used to pay bills and insurance premiums or for specific services at eye doctors and dentist offices.

Filipino troops try to keep volcano evacuees safe

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 23, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

(AP) -- Police and soldiers donned Santa hats and red clown noses and belted out songs in crammed evacuation centers in hopes of keeping 47,000 displaced residents from sneaking back to their homes on the ...

Most of 47,000 Filipinos safe from raging volcano

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 22, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(AP) -- Almost all of the 47,000 residents living on the slopes of a rumbling volcano in the central Philippines have moved to emergency shelters, and lava and earthquakes Tuesday heralded what officials ...

Ancient Pacific islanders brought to light

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 21, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A find of 60 headless skeletons summer 2009 may reveal the identity of the people who first inhabited the Pacific Ocean archipelago Vanuatu 3000 years ago.

Philippine volcano gets louder, could erupt soon

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0

(AP) -- Philippine troops on Monday pressed the last 3,000 villagers who have refused to heed government warnings to leave the danger zone around a volcano that experts say is ready to erupt.

Major volcanic eruption feared in Philippines

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 20, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 0

(AP) -- The Philippines' most active volcano could have a huge eruption within days, officials warned Sunday after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. ...

More Filipinos leave homes as volcano spills lava

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- Security forces in army trucks Friday sent about 3,000 residents outside the danger zone surrounding the smoldering Mayon volcano, which looked set for a major eruption after days of shooting ash ...

Philippine volcano rumbles with fresh explosions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(AP) -- The Mayon volcano, which has blown its top nearly 40 times in 400 years, menaced nearby residents with small eruptions of ash and lava Wednesday as Philippine authorities moved more than 30,000 people ...

A unique geography -- and soot and dust -- conspire against Himalayan glaciers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 1

"So many disparate elements, both natural and man-made, converge in the Himalayas," said William Lau, a climatologist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "There's no other place in the ...

Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 14, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (48) | 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...

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