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...learn more about these flare-ups-and also how to predict them-scientists have established some 45 solar observatories around the world...
Using batteries of instruments that include solar telescopes equipped with cameras, spectroscopes and magnetographs, they maintain constant vigilance of the sun, looking for the smallest sign of unusual solar activity. But the accurate forecasting of flare-ups is still what Solar Physicist Robert Noyes of the Harvard and Smithsonian observatories calls "very much a black art," a description that is fully supported by last week's dramatic-and unexpected-events...
...Which means that the explosion actually took place 10 million years ago, or the time it took light from the flare-up to reach earth...
...rule, Ulster's Catholics had wavered between supporting the outlawed Irish Republican Army and coming to terms with the British. But the nascent good will toward London for replacing the hated Protestant-dominated Parliament at Stormont was clearly a fragile feeling. Almost any incident could spark a renewed flare-up of hatred in the Catholic community-and last week, with a certain inevitability, that flare-up was touched off. By a single death, the I.R.A. gained a martyr, and the British were put on the verge of losing their latest bid to bring peace to bloody Ulster...
...immediate effect of the raids was to create a crisis in Lebanon, whose fragile Christian-Moslem political entente was shattered two years ago following similar Israeli raids and a Lebanese army crackdown on guerrilla activities. Under an agreement following that flare-up, Lebanon had let the fedayeen more or less take over Fatahland in return for pledges not to move into the villages or fire into Israel from Lebanese territory...