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...couple, research scientists from Manchester, didn't follow because Spraggon was putting on suntan lotion. That probably saved their lives. Within minutes, people ran toward them screaming. "It was like a Jaws moment," Beran says. As the first giant wave bore down, two Thai coast guard boats in the bay suddenly shot into the air. The couple ran for their lives, hurdling barefoot over rough ground and fences while the wall of water chased them. They scaled a brick wall and joined 10 others on the roof of a house until it collapsed, hurling them into 5-m-deep water...
...hates Americans here," says Abdullah Salim el-Badri, chairman of the country's National Oil Corp., which runs the huge oil fields abandoned by the Americans in 1986. "Oil started here with the Americans. They trained us." Libyans' friendliness to Americans is even clearer hundreds of miles down the coast at the Essider Marine Terminal, from which oil is shipped by the government-owned Waha Oil Co. The company took over the operation from U.S. companies in 1986, when sanctions drove out the Oasis Group, a combination of Amerada Hess, Marathon Oil and Conoco. But a handful of American citizens...
...weather appears to behave randomly but is actually governed by rules. It is also influenced by seemingly trivial tweaks to the system--hence the old romantic notion that a flap of a butterfly's wings in the rain forest of Brazil might give rise to a storm off the coast of Iceland. Perhaps, thought Hoffman, chaos and sensitivity, which make weather so difficult to predict, could be harnessed to purposely change...
...really nice to come back home and be able to play in front of all my family,” said Taylor, whose parents have actually traveled to some of his East Coast contests. He added that he viewed the home-town showdowns just as he viewed high school games...
Then, with about four minutes left before the break, junior forward Shana Franklin hit a three-pointer and Holsey went coast-to-coast to inflate the margin...