Word: cataclysms
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Even though it is based on Einstein's general relativity equations, the concept strains belief. If a star is large enough -at least three times as massive as the sun-it will eventually die in a grand cataclysm. As its nuclear fires begin to burn out, the stellar gases, no longer supported by heat and radiation, begin falling toward the star's core. Moving at tremendous velocities, they crush together, forming a sphere only two or three miles across, so dense that each cubic inch of material weighs trillions of tons. The small sphere has a gravitational field...
...founder, but his high, broad forehead and strong nose bear the same Basque imprint. It is an open face, quick to smile. "He is optimistic by disease," says one colleague. But the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe has reason to be optimistic. He is a survivor of a cataclysm next to which the problems of his Jesuits must instantly pale. As rector of a Jesuit novitiate in wartime Japan, he was in Nagatsuka, a suburb of Hiroshima, on Aug. 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb struck. "Arrupe," says a Jesuit associate, "has seen the Apocalypse...
...made devastation of North Viet Nam occurred at the same time as the natural cataclysm of the Nicaraguan earthquake. It was a haunting coincidence-American relief planes rushing doctors and medical supplies to the Nicaraguans while B-52s rained 500-lb. bombs on the Vietnamese...
...core of significant size could not have existed. Even the ages of the rocks present new problems. The oldest specimens show that the moon's surface underwent a violent event about 3.9 billion years ago that remelted them, but scientists are still debating what might have caused that cataclysm...
California had its own cataclysm in the 1920s: Prohibition. Many of Haraszthy's precious vines were ripped up. By the time of repeal in 1933, only a handful of vintners were left, turning out spirits supposedly for sacramental or pharmaceutical purposes. Against this dismal backdrop, Ernest and Julio Gallo entered the business...