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...state so pure that it becomes almost unbearably beautiful. Her poems unfold in a burnt winter landscape, lit by cold, melancholy sunlight and littered with strangled, frozen hopes, where her only chance is to draw strength from pain. "Beware," she cautions in "Lady Lazarus," "Out of the ash/ I rise with my red hair/ And I eat men like...
BOOKS | Timothy Garton Ash...
Luckily for paleontologists, the beds are divided into different layers that yield different sorts of fossils. The sleeping dino, for example, was found in what Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City calls Liaoning's "Pompeii layer," a 10-ft.-thick stratum of ash and sand. It was deposited so quickly that, like the ash from the infamous eruption in Italy, it buried creatures alive wherever they were standing--or snoozing. This one was tiny: excluding its tail, it's about the size of a Rock Cornish hen. That some of its bones have...
...officer was sent to take a report of graffiti on the sidewalk in front of the Cronkhite Center on Ash Street. While investigating that report, the officer reported that a wall outside the Schlesinger Library had been spray painted, as well as the wall outside of Byerly Hall...
...seemed on the verge of a spectacular eruption. And this time the whole world was watching--hundreds through binoculars at safe vantage points, millions more through hourly reports on cable TV. But no one was watching more closely than the scientists monitoring the instruments scattered across the mountain's ash-coated flanks and half-mile-wide lava dome. This early warning network was installed after the 1980 eruption that blew off the top 1,300 ft. of the mountain, destroying tens of thousands of acres of forest and killing 57 people. Although geophysicists expressed confidence that Mount St. Helens will...