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Energy: A Saudi prince has warned that his oil-reliant nation is under threat because of fracking technology being developed in the U.S. and spreading around the world. OPEC is now caught between Riyadh and a hard place. Indicative of the panic rippling through the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries over the U.S.-led fracking boom, billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says his Gulf Arab kingdom needs to reduce its reliance on crude oil and diversify its revenues, lest the era of gold-plated toilets come to an end. In an open letter to his country's oil minister Ali al-Naimi and other...

In the light of events of the past day, and the strike of a 40 year Earthquake in the East, I though it might be important to review standard earthquake safety. I live in an area of California that is seldom hit by earthquakes but I learned that in an earthquake one should stand in a door way. Unfortunately, learned WRONG! UNDER A DOOR FRAME IS ONE OF THE WORST PLACES TO GO IN AN EARTHQUAKE! Many bodies of earthquake victims have been found cut in half by the scissoring effect of the door way collapsing on them as the...