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PINATUBO. The full effects of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines last June -- probably the largest volcanic explosion of the 20th century -- are starting to be felt this year. The volcano heaved 20 million tons of gas and ash into the stratosphere, where they formed a global haze that will scatter sunlight and could lower temperatures -- by half a degree Fahrenheit -- for the next three or four years. Smoke from the gulf-war fires, by contrast, never reached the stratosphere and had no measurable effect on the world's weather...
...trackless region infested with camel spiders, giant ticks and lethal carpet vipers. The team checked out the forbidding terrain in 1990 and began hunting in earnest last November. Just six weeks ago, says Clapp, "we were ^ within a whisker of total failure." Then the party decided to examine Ash Shisar, a water hole with ruins of a primitive fort. Using ground-penetrating radar and sounding devices, the explorers discovered extensive ruins underneath...
...blowup of 1991 rained volcanic ash on the Philippines and triggered massive mudslides. It also lofted 15 million to 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide high into the atmosphere, creating droplets of sulfuric acid that will reflect some of the sun's heat back into space. That could hold off global warming for a few years, but when the volcanic gas dissipates, The earth could make up for lost time and heat up uncomfortably fast...
...endorsed Edwards and urged his sullen supporters not to sit out the election. Then, in a televised debate, Duke was confounded by an emotional question about bigotry. "I am scared, sir," began black TV reporter Norman Robinson. "I've heard you say that Jews deserve to be in the ash bin of history. I've heard you say that horses contributed more to the building of America than blacks did." Robinson went on to ask why any minorities should entrust their lives to Duke -- and the moral opposition to Duke's hate- mongering past coalesced...
...first thing I've ever written without being interrupted by children or teaching or other things." After filling notebooks with "patterns," she said, "I just sat down and wrote with everything in place except 'Mummy Possessed' and 'Swammerdown' [the two epic poems "written" by the character Randolph Ash]. The language runs through the book from start to finish like one thread--I hope...