Destructive waters overtake the world we leave behind. Rain floods New Orleans again, and when power goes out in the city s aquarium, it spells doom for thousands of animals. Corrosion from rain brings down Seattle s Space Needle, while humidity in the Middle East wrecks Dubai s space-age structures.

The post-apocalyptic fate of our cars, planes and roads. Oil refineries turn into time bombs. In the Motor City, harsh northern winters dismantles auto headquarters. While in Texas, the Alamo succumbs to a new invader. Also, animals adapt: armadillos spread, some dogs rekindle their hunting instincts, and long-horn cattle flourish once again.

The deck boss on the Frances Anne suffers a season ending injury; slacking crew members on the Hannah Boden cause tempers to flare.

CHESS LIFE Contains instruction, games, puzzles, personality profiles, history, reviews, and news, both U.S. and international, for members of U.S. Chess Federation.

Ah, the life of the young single person ... Singles - Flirt up your Life is the simulation of the exciting relationship between Mike and Linda. The live-in twosome are coupled as roommates at the beginning of the game, though the rest is up to you as the gamer ...

Viktor Kortchnoi has authored an incredible two DVD series for ChessBase entitled "My Life for Chess". Get a preview of these disks featuring the man ChessBase Workshop columnist Steve Lopez calls "a bottled hurricane". Workshop...

A young woman caught between life and death... and a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but might just be intent on burying her alive.

Whether you re planning dinner for the family or hosting a cocktail party for 20, turn to BUITONI for creative culinary inspiration! From delicious filled pastas to award-winning pesto, BUITONI creates products that create possibilities. With 30 Mediterranean-inspired recipes from which to choose, including Bruschetta with Garlic Shrimp and Whole Wheat Ravioli with Garlic Sauteed Vegetables, this cookbook offers fresh ideas for every night of the week.

Description : Animators and artists will discover and master the difficult techniques of rhythmic drawing - bringing their work to life!

Narrated by Sydney Pollack, film critic Richard Schickels dazzling two-hour plus documentary to one of the towering figures in film: Charles Chaplin. Hardcore Chaplin fans may not find much new material here, but more unfamiliar admirers will gain some valuable information about one of the most famous personalities of the 20th century. Schickel has constructed the documentary as a chronological survey of Chaplins work, starting with his most significant shorts and covering all of his features...

Four billion years ago, the infant Earth was a seething cauldron of erupting volcanoes, raining meteors, and hot noxious gases, totally devoid of life. But a relatively short time later—100 to 200 million years—the planet was teeming with primitive organisms. What happened?

Professor Robert M. Hazen, one of the nation's foremost science educators and leader of a NASA-supported team that is studying the origins of life in the universe, leads you on a 24-lecture expedition to find the answer to this momentous question. The search takes you from path-breaking experiments in the 19th century proving that the molecules of life are no different from other chemicals, to the increasingly sophisticated understanding in the 20th century of how the chemistry of life works, to the near certainty that the 21st century will see spectacular and unpredictable developments in our understanding of how life began.