Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:30:07 +0100 (AP) - This Aug. 20, 1985 photo from the U.S. Geological Survey shows the Paulina Lakes and the Big Obsidian Flow within the caldera of Newberry Volcano, located on the Newberry Volcanic National Monument about 20 miles south of Bend, Ore. Hot rocks remaining beneath the surface of the flanks of the volcano outside the monument have drawn two companies trying to demonstrate new technology that could greatly expand development of geothermal energy. The project is backed by the federal government and Google. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey/Lyn Topinka)
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy visits the national pedagogical ...
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:20:01 +0100 (Reuters) - France's President Nicolas Sarkozy visits the national pedagogical center (CNDP) in Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, western France, January 5, 2012. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION HEADSHOT)
A couple leaves the archaeological site of the Acropolis in ...
Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:20:02 +0100 (Reuters) - A couple leaves the archaeological site of the Acropolis in Athens November 28, 2011. Greece's debt crisis has badly hurt tourism -- forcing visitors to clamber over fences to see closed monuments or curtail trips to avoid unrest, endangering new cultural initiatives and even raising concerns about the security around some of the country's most precious archaeological sites. Greek Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos has said the government is doing its best to protect Greece's heritage. But the ministry has had to axe 2,000 staff since the debt crisis broke in 2009, mostly people on temporary contracts, and this has taken its toll, especially on smaller museums, forcing some to shorten their opening hours, for example, he said. Picture taken November 28. To match Feature GREECE-CRISIS/MONUMENTS REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: TRAVEL BUSINESS)
Drug addicts attend a class about AIDS during psychological ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:50:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Drug addicts attend a class about AIDS during psychological treatment at a compulsory drug rehabilitation center in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province November 28, 2011. Picture taken November 28, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY DRUGS)
In this Aug. 11, 2010 photo released by Chile's Paleontological ...
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:20:01 +0100 (AP) - In this Aug. 11, 2010 photo released by Chile's Paleontological Museum of Caldera, a paleontologist from the museum prepares a whale fossil at the site where many prehistoric whale fossils were discovered in the Atacama desert near Copiapo, Chile. The fossil is enclosed in a plaster jacket to protect it during transport back to the museum. More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end. Maybe they became disoriented and beached themselves. Maybe they were trapped in a lagoon by a landslide or a ferocious storm. Maybe they died there over a period of a few millennia. But somehow, they ended up right next to one another, many just several yards (meters) apart, entombed over the ages as the shallow sea floor was driven upward by geologic forces and transformed into the driest place on the planet. Today, the whales have emerged again atop a desert hill more than half a mile (a kilometer) from the surf, where researchers have begun to unearth one of the world's best-preserved graveyards of prehistoric whales. (AP Photo/Museo Paleontologico de Caldera)
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