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The barriers - 300m (980ft) high and up to 100 miles long - would act like hill ranges, softening winds before twisters can form.

They would cost $16bn (£9.6bn) to build but save billions of dollars of damage each year, said Prof Rongjia Tao, of Temple University, Philadelphia.

He unveiled his idea at the American Physical Society meeting in Denver.
However critics say the idea is unworkable, and would create more problems than it solves.
Threat over 'forever'
 
Every year hundreds of twisters tear through communities in the great north-south corridor between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountain ranges.

Instead, they would soften the clashing streams of hot southern and cold northern air, which form twisters in the first place, Prof Tao said.

"If we build three east-west great walls, one in North Dakota, one along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma, and the third in the south in Texas and Louisiana, we will diminish the threats in Tornado Alley forever," he said.

As evidence, he points to China - where only three tornadoes were recorded last year, compared to 803 in the US.

China too has flat plain valleys running north-south, but the difference is they are broken up by east-west hill ranges.

Although only a few hundred metres high, they are enough to take the sting out of air currents before they clash, Prof Tao believes.

Hotspot Back in the US, he notes that the flat farmlands of Illinois experience wildly varying risks of twisters.
"Washington County is a tornado hotspot. But just 60 miles (100km) away is Gallatin County, where there is almost no risk," he told BBC News.

"Why? Just look at the map - at Gallatin you have the Shawnee Hills."
These act like a barrier 200-250m (820ft) high, protecting Gallatin, he says.
"We may not have east-west mountain ranges - like the Alps in Europe - we can build walls."

"We've already been doing computer simulations and next we aim to build physical models for testing [in wind tunnels]."
Rather than create an eyesore, the walls could be "attractively" designed, says Prof Tao.
He cites the Comcast skyscraper in Philadelphia - also about 300m high, and built with a reinforced glass exterior.
"Our tornado wall could even be built of glass too. It could be a beautiful landmark," he told BBC News.
"I spoke to some architects and they said it's possible. It would take a few years to finish the walls but we could build them in stages."
Prof Tao has yet to approach government or environmental agencies with his scheme, but the reaction from meteorologists has been highly sceptical.
Harold Brooks, of the National Severe Storms Laboratory, said the great walls "simply wouldn't work".

Mark Zuckerberg's firm is planning to buy the company for around £11bn.

Opponents want US regulators to stop the deal until Facebook provides more information on what it plans to do with the personal data of WhatsApp's users.

But Facebook said it will operate as a separate company and honour existing privacy arrangements, which include not collecting user data for advertising.

"WhatsApp built a user-base based on its commitment not to collect user data for advertising revenue," read a complaint filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It was drawn up by two non-profit groups, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy.

They added: "Users provided detailed personal information to the company including private text to close friends. Facebook routinely makes use of user information for advertising purposes and has made clear that it intends to incorporate the data of WhatsApp users into the user profiling business model.

"The proposed acquisition will therefore violate WhatsApp users' understanding of their exposure to online advertising and constitutes an unfair and deceptive trade practice, subject to investigation by the Federal Trade Commission."

And the groups, which work on research and consumer protection online, asked the regulators to investigate the deal "specifically with regard to the ability of Facebook to access WhatsApp's store of user mobile phone numbers and metadata".
'Insulate'
 
Facebook, the world's top social network with 1.2 billion users, generates the majority of its revenue by showing ads that target users by age, gender and other traits.

"As we have said repeatedly, WhatsApp will operate as a separate company and will honour its commitments to privacy and security," Facebook said in a statement seen by Reuters.
 
Facebook announced its intention to buy WhatsApp, which has 450 million users who are able to send instant messages and other media over mobile, with cash and stock.

There is no charge for individual messages, which are sent using wi-fi or data connections, making it cheaper than SMS messaging in many cases. Other users pay around £0.60 per year subscription.
Referring to the business model, Jan Koum wrote on the WhatsApp website: "When people ask us why we charge for WhatsApp, we say, 'Have you considered the alternative?'"

Despite assurances by WhatsApp and Facebook that the privacy policies will not change, the groups noted that Mark Zuckerberg's social networking company has in the past amended an acquired-company's privacy policies.

Notably, it did so with the Instagram photo-sharing service that it bought in 2012.
Regulators must require that Facebook "insulate" WhatsApp user information from access by Facebook's data collection practices, read the complaint, which was dated 6 March 2014.

"WhatsApp users could not reasonably have anticipated that by selecting a pro-privacy messaging service, they would subject their data to Facebook's data collection practices," read the filing.

The FTC will decide whether the acquisition can go ahead and, if so, whether or not conditions should be imposed.

The award, formerly the Orange prize, honours women writing in English.
The 2014 nominees include four British writers and seven US authors, as well as novelists from countries including Ireland, Canada and Nigeria.

Judge Helen Fraser called the 20-strong longlist "intensely readable, gripping, intelligent and surprising".

"The judges feel that this is a fantastic selection of books of the highest quality... that you would want to press on your friends, and the judges have been doing just that," said Fraser.

The judging panel, chaired by Fraser, includes Professor Mary Beard, newsreader Sophie Raworth and columnist and author Caitlin Moran.

Tartt's The Goldfinch is her third novel. The American author won international fame with her 1992 debut The Secret History.

Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood is longlisted for her fourteenth book, Maddaddam, while New Zealand-born Catton's second novel The Luminaries won the Booker prize in October 2013.

The list also includes two previous Orange Prize winners: Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, shortlisted for Americanah and US author Suzanne Berne, for The Dogs of Littlefield.
Fatima Bhutto, niece of the late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, is longlisted for her debut novel The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon.

Also in the running is The Strangler Vine, the debut novel from MJ Carter, who has previously written biographies under the pseudonym Miranda Carter.

Other debuts on the longlist include Lea Carpenter's Eleven Days, Hannah Kent's Burial Rites, Audrey Magee's The Undertaking and Eimear McBride's A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing.
Last year saw US author AM Homes beat the double Booker-winning author Hilary Mantel to the prize with her satire May We Be Forgiven.

Homes became the fifth American writer in a row to win the £30,000 annual prize. The last British author to win was Rose Tremain, for The Road Home, in 2008.

Liqueur company Baileys took over sponsorship of the award last year. The prize was founded in 1996, and was sponsored by communications company Orange until 2012.

The shortlist will be announced on 7 April, and the winner revealed at London's Royal Festival Hall on 4 June.

Britain's Jade Etherington has won silver in the women's visually impaired downhill at the Winter Paralympics in Sochi.

The 22-year-old from Lincoln and her guide Caroline Powell - who are making their Games debut - clocked one minute 34.28 seconds at Rosa Khutor.

They finished 2.73 seconds behind Slovakia's Henrieta Farkasova and her guide Natalia Subrtova.
Britain's other competitor, Kelly Gallagher, finished in sixth place.

There was drama at the end of the race when Etherington crashed into the hoardings after she crossed the line but after a few anxious moments she got back onto her feet.

"I am delighted with the silver medal, I don't think it's sunk in yet," she told BBC Sport.
"We knew going down that it was a solid run, despite my little jump and crash at the end, but that's all fine and I'm really happy to get down and glad to have that confidence boost for the next four races."
It is Britain's first Winter Paralympic medal since the wheelchair curlers won silver at the Turin Games in 2006 and a first skiing medal since 1994.

The aircraft never made it to Chinese airspace as John Sudworth reports from Beijing International Airport

Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with a plane travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board.  The airline said in a statement that flight MH370 disappeared at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday).

It had been expected to land in Beijing at 06:30 (22:30 GMT).  The plane went off the radar south of Vietnam, according to a statement on the Vietnamese government website.  Its last known location was off the country's Ca Mau peninsular although the exact position was not clear, it said.

"Our team is currently calling the next-of-kin of passengers and crew."
The Boeing B777-200 aircraft was carrying 227 passengers, including two children, and 12 crew members.

In a brief press conference on Saturday, Malaysia Airlines chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the company was still working to establish the location of the plane.
He said the company was "deeply saddened" at the situation and that it would provide regular updates.

England coach Stuart Lancaster believes victory over Wales to secure the Triple Crown at Twickenham on Sunday can have an impact on next year's World Cup.

Both teams have four points in this year's Six Nations and meet again at Twickenham in World Cup Pool A in 2015.

"We play Wales twice before the World Cup and Wales play Australia [who are also in Pool A] - psychologically there will be things there," Lancaster said.
"It's a big game and we need to make sure we deliver on the field."
England have lost their last three internationals against Wales, who clinched last year's Six Nations title with their highest winning margin against England, a 30-3 triumph at Cardiff.
With two matches remaining in this year's tournament, Ireland and France also have four points, with the Irish team top of the table on points difference.

Victory against Wales would also put them in position to win the Six Nations for the first time since 2011, with a visit to Italy in their final match the more favourable of the final fixtures amongst the leading teams.
"You use every defeat as motivation on how to improve. We lost to New Zealand in the autumn and that was difficult to take, as was losing to France last month," Lancaster said.
"But we've bounced back from those games and learned, liked we learned from Wales last year. We've moved on since then.
"We respect Wales as opponents, the quality and experience they have and how well they are set up. It will be a tough game, but we're ready.
"All the talking is fine, it's the team that delivers on the day that matters."