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...would cause a tsunami (commonly called a tidal wave) hundreds of feet high, flooding the coastlines of surrounding continents. "Where cities stood," he said, "there would be only mudflats." A land hit, he calculated, would blast out a crater at least 30 miles across and throw up a blanket of dust and vapor that would blot out the sun "for weeks, if not months...
...Provost's office has also given blanket approval to certain organizations within Harvard, such as the Art Museums, which routinely use Harvard's name in joint catalogs with other museums...
...before Starr and Ginsburg can get even that far, they must either make some peace or declare war. This is why they spent hours in front of a judge on Thursday trying to resolve the fate of an earlier immunity deal--and got nowhere. Ginsburg wants a full immunity blanket to protect his client from prosecution. Starr is playing very tough: far from being squeamish about prosecuting a 24-year-old, he may have to go to a criminal trial to get her to come clean...
Last Monday, 18-month-old Jonathan Waldick of Kissimmee, Fla., was asleep, wrapped in a blanket, when a tornado roared through his room. After the twister passed, Waldick's great-grandmother, Shirley Driver, along with several neighbors, began a frantic search...
Thirty minutes later they found him, some 50 ft. from his house, his tiny foot poking out of a pile of tree limbs, trash and other debris. Other than a few scratches, he was fine--and he was still wrapped in that blanket. The house he was blown out of, however, was pulverized...