The largest earthen dam in the U.S., it was constructed on an active fault line in the 1950s and filled in 1968.
Barroso did not address the other fault line in the negotiations towards a climate change deal at Copenhagen: who will pay to protect the poorest countries that will bear the brunt of climate change.
American society's fantastically skewed distribution of wealth stands as one of the main structural fault lines underpinning the Crash.
Directed by Olivier Assayas, this is a fascinating dissection of how the Cold War, the Palestinian problem and oil potentates laid the fault lines for today's political tensions.
We construct city skylines in hurricane alleys and neighborhoods on top of fault lines — as if nature will be cowed by our audacity and leave us be.
