BY FROMA HARROP A wall of water now rules our freak-of-nature nightmares. Like the whirling funnel that drops down from the sky, it gives scant warning. But unlike a tornado, it devastates wide swathes of civilization, and there’s no tsunami equivalent of a tornado cellar for sitting out the violent weather. Hurricanes consume entire cities, but they generally arrive after days of warnings. What could one do in the coastal Japanese city of Sendai, when […]

Mother Nature Defeats Best Laid Plans
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