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With the Belfer Center built, attention is now focusing on a Harvard-owned crater behind the K-School which may be used for additional office space, though it is currently a matter of debate just whose offices will be moving...
Meanwhile, rescue workers were sifting through the embassy wreckage. The blast had left a crater 26 ft. in diameter and 8 ft. deep. Beside it lay the remains of the lethal van, in a burned and twisted heap. Ambulances wailed as armed guards lowered their weapons menacingly to keep curiosity seekers away. Bodies were scattered amid the rubble, some without limbs; screams and groans could be heard everywhere. Among the wounded was Fawzi Yazeji, a Lebanese guard, who was taken to the nearby Abu Jawdeh hospital for treatment. Said he: "Thank God this didn't happen two hours earlier...
When the world's largest active volcano erupted for the first time in nine years, it did so with spectacular fury. Fountains of fiery lava shot 400 ft. into the air from the 1½-mile-wide crater at the summit of Mauna Loa (13,677 ft.). The lava spilled down blackened mountain slopes in thick rivers of gleaming marigold fire, looking demonically magical, an apprentice sorcerer's wish for gold gone awry. At week's end the menacing wall had oozed to within four miles of Hawaii's second-largest city, Hilo...
Last week's cave-in left a D-shaped crater about 60 ft. wide, 150 ft. long and between 10 and 30 ft. deep. Although apparently no radiation had leaked, 14 workers emerged with broken bones and lacerations. Craters from previous underground nuclear tests pock the desert floor elsewhere on the 1,350-sq.-mi. site. But officials said they had had no reason to expect such a result in the mesa because it is made up of hardened volcanic ash and granite. In the past 20 years, the Government has exploded 45 nuclear devices with no ill effects...
...first-class carriage on a Marseilles-Paris express train, killing three passengers and wounding more than a dozen. Then, only 16 minutes later and 120 miles to the south, in Marseilles's St. Charles railway station, another tremendous explosion rocked the luggage office, shattering windows, carving out a crater three feet wide, and leaving two dead and 34 injured. Together with two recent explosions in fashionable Parisian restaurants, both blasts were apparently designed to protest the French role in the Middle East quagmire. Last week, as the entire country shook from the reverberations, several alarms were sounded, railway stations...