disaster

Reality or reality TV?

Mike Pilewski compares what's been on TV and concludes: "Real life is far more interesting than fiction."

The United States is out of money

The world's most powerful country has reached its credit limit. Mike Pilewski explains how things got this bad.

YouTube's teenage theologians

Religion is a big part of life in the American South. So were the recent tornadoes God's fault? Mike Pilewski looks at the theological debate caused by a YouTube video.

Tornado stories

Two dozen tornadoes hit North Carolina last weekend. Mike Pilewski shares his own personal tornado story.

rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic

do something that will have no effect in preventing disaster
(angesichts einer bevorstehenden Katastrophe nur Belangloses tun)

A container of goods is loaded at the Eagle Marine Services facility at the port of Oakland, California. Photo: Jan Stuermann

Worried about goods from Japan

A container of goods is loaded at the port of Oakland, California. The crisis at the nuclear power station in Fukushima, Japan, has governments and transport companies worried about radioactivity. Find out what the US government said about this last week.

Life in the end times, part 1

Mike Pilewski explains how Americans make an art of preparing for disaster.

In the supermarket

"I was pretty confident that I was going to be doing another 86 washes," writes Dagmar Taylor.

It's time to leave him, dear

Nuclear energy is like a violent marriage, says Mike Pilewski. When do you realize that your own safety is more important than anything else?

The explosion at the Fukushima nuclear reactor as shown on Japanese TV.

Earthquake in Japan - Medium

Learn the language used in news reports about the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Then review the tenses in our exercise.

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