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Houston imposes night curfew to prevent looting during Harvey
(Reuters) – Houston has imposed an overnight curfew beginning on Tuesday night for an indefinite period amid incidents of looting, armed robberies and people impersonating police officers, city officials said. The curfew will run from 10 p.m. until 5 p.m., Mayor Sylvester Turner told a news conference on Tuesday evening. The city is also bringing […]
Life at the ‘end of the world’ isn’t all looting and pillaging
Typically, end-of-the-world scenarios involve rioting, looting and chaos. Those depictions are from pop culture, though, and not based on any sort of real world data. For an idea of how an apocalyptic situation might actually play out, scientists pored over some 270 million action records from the South Korean massively multiplayer game (MMO) ArcheAge, according […]
