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Just as the colors of the ballpark merge to engulf the sensation, just as the players merge into a roster generations long, so too the souls of all Red Sox fans merge, joining a tradition that supercedes statistics, that...
...armadas of iron behemoths, belching smoke into the sky. Along the New Jersey Turnpike, near the towns of Linden and Carteret, many oil storage tanks are higher than a ten-story apartment building. Should a plane from nearby Newark International Airport crash into that complex, the resulting fireball could engulf one of the most heavily populated areas of the nation. Fire drills at plants in northern New Jersey have been stepped up since the Mexican explosion...
...opening tableau the Woman genuflects in the best Oriental fashion in front of the shrine she built to the Man's memory, as mellow jazz washes across the basement of the Chinese Cultural Center. The man stands on the red draped dais that engulf the Woman...
...into the channel bed to readjust the river's flow. In the project's second phase, they will begin dumping dirt into six miles of the channel once so carefully scooped out. If all goes well over the next 15 years, the river will gradually rise and engulf the artificially dry plains that surround it, transforming them back to the lush, mosquito-ridden swamps they were for hundreds of thousands of years...
...decline, confined thus far mostly to the Eastern states, is puzzling scientists from Maine to Alabama. The mysterious selective blight may merely signal shifts in local ecological balances. Or, say the scientists, it may be the start of a trend toward devastation that could eventually engulf the entire Eastern green range. Their worry is not unfounded. An apparently similar malady has ravaged 34% of West Germany's wooded lands, causing an annual $509 million in damages to timber and related industries. So far, the U.S. decline has been measured mostly in aesthetic and recreational losses. But it is beginning...