Word: blowingly
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...urgent warning for people to drop whatever they are doing and head north. But there is not much farther north to go, and the terror among local residents is palpable. The Caribbean island's volcano, belching, smoking, fuming for two years now, is giving hints of a cataclysmic blow, as the dark, telltale cloud of white-hot debris shoots high into the sky. "It's the first thing you see when you wake up and the last thing you see when you go to bed," says Audrey White, 51, a farmer who was forced to evacuate her home two years...
Under the growing pressure of subterranean steam against the mountain's molten core, the volcano's cap could eventually blow out entirely. Montserrat, not much more than a slender arc of farm and beach land surrounding the volcano, could virtually disappear. More likely, the mountain may keep on belching for months or years, slowly smothering the little island. Already it is a paradise lost for its citizens as fewer than 4,000 cling to their homeland. "If everyone leaves," says Radio Montserrat general manager Rose Willock, who lost her home a month ago, "Montserrat will become just another island that...
...year's worth of data from the Solar Heliospheric Observatory satellite, NASA today unveils startling photos that may help scientists unravel some of the sun's most perplexing mysteries. Among the satellite's more intriguing revelations: pictures that may help astronomers predict solar storms, which disrupt satellite communications and blow out power grids on earth...
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OLVESTON, Montserrat: Faced with a volcano ready to blow and a population clamoring to go, Montserrat's British Governor Frank Savage found his plush mansion surrounded by hundreds of screaming protestors today...