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...seams from the region's population boom, rangers have closed down a ski area and dismantled three dams to restore the land for elk and sheep grazing. To protect the alpine terrain above the timberline, rangers have closed off a favorite breeding haunt of the endangered bighorn sheep near Crater Lake...
...didn't see him again or hear from him againuntil this winter," she says. "I was watching theCharles Kuralt show... They were looking at theremains of a crater in a big field. And he said aprofessor, a geology professor, Wakefield Dort, isgoing to tell us about...
...cargo plane as both were attempting to land at North Carolina's Pope Air Force Base, raining down flaming debris that killed 23 Army paratroopers and injured scores of others. In Edison, New Jersey, an underground natural-gas pipeline exploded in a fierce fireball, carving out a huge crater and destroying eight apartment buildings. Miraculously, only one person died -- indirectly, of a heart attack...
Scientists believe this mother of all asteroids formed a crater 180 kilometers across when it struck the Yucatan Peninsula. Earthquakes occurred worldwide, and billions of tons of dust and molten rock burned up, turning the atmosphere into a furnace and setting off forest fires worldwide...
Eight hours later, the van made history. It disintegrated into thousands of pieces as the 1,200-lb. bomb it was carrying thundered through the parking garage of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, tearing a 200-ft.-wide crater in the basement of the world's second tallest building. Six people were killed, and more than 1,000 were injured. The worst terrorist attack on American soil sent federal agents scrambling on a global manhunt. One of the suspects, a 33-year-old redhead, was captured in his native Egypt by government agents, brutally tortured until he confessed...