Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vast volcanic cloud from Mexico may bring a cooler summer...
...responsible researcher foresees such catastrophic consequences from El Chichón. But there are troubling signs. A huge smoglike cloud from the volcano has been spotted at scattered locations around the globe. At the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, astronomers say the brightness of stars has been reduced by 40%, and volcanic dust has created garish sunsets over wide areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Says Atmospheric Physicist James Pollack, of NASA's Ames Research Center, which has used U-2 aircraft to collect samples of El Chichón's dust: "This is the biggest volcanic cloud...
...pointed straight up." The result: the Mexican volcano injected much more dust, ash and sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where the particles would be wafted high enough (at least 18 miles) to be carried in a westerly direction by prevailing high-altitude winds. Thus far, the cloud has been spotted over Hawaii, Japan, the Indian Ocean and Africa. U-2s have also detected traces over Kansas and Montana...
...parts, probably because producers thought he would be too expensive. He tried a nightclub act and was roundly panned, which left what he calls a "huge scar." He was praised, however, for his direction of a feminist revue, The Club, in 1976 and for the current off-Broadway hit Cloud 9. It is as director and choreographer that he is now generally known. "Performers get applause," he says ruefully. "Directors get gray hairs...
...tinted glass of his Lincoln at a crowd of 2,000 lining the Avenue Victoria as his motorcade sped away from the meeting with Chirac. One reason for the heavy precautions: that morning a bomb had exploded at the American School of Paris, located in the suburb of Saint-Cloud. There were no injuries. On the school's wall was inscribed the legend ACTION DIRECTE, the name of an outlawed ultraleft organization...