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...Canadian mining company had soared from pennies a share in 1993 to over $200 last year after the company reported it was sitting on one of the biggest gold fields ever discovered. Rumors first began to swirl on March 17 of this year, when a senior company geologist fell from a helicopter under suspicious circumstances. That same week, New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold reported what was confirmed Sunday: that there was no gold in them thar hills. Share prices plummeted more than 80 percent following that announcement. When the outside gold was added, and by whom...
...gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot cliches: our hero (Tommy Lee Jones) and his perpetually hysterical child (Gaby Hoffmann), ever blundering into catastrophe; the spiky geologist (Anne Heche) who has to exclaim "Oh, God!" 46 times; silliest of all, the ornery whites and blacks who when covered with gray ash learn that, gee, Armageddon is color-blind. And just once in a disaster film, could a dog please...
...thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation. The gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot clich?s: our hero (Tommy Lee Jones) and his perpetually hysterical child (Gaby Hoffman), ever blundering into catastrophe; the spiky geologist (Anne Heche) who has to exclaim, ?Oh, God!? 46 times; silliest of all, the ornery whites and blacks who, when covered with gray ash, learn that, gee, Armageddon is colorblind. And just once in a disaster film, could a dog please die? All right, nobody cares. You just want...
Instead of being shot, he is rescued by Athos Roussos, a Greek geologist working on a nearby archaeological project. Athos smuggles the boy out of Poland back to Athos' ancestral island. Although the Nazis arrive there too, Jakob later realizes that he, having experienced the worst, was also spared much more of the same. "While I was living with Athos on Zakynthos, learning Greek and English, learning geology, geography, and poetry, Jews were filling the corners and cracks of Europe, every available space...I didn't know that while I was on Zakynthos, a Jew could be purchased...
...cooks the rocky innards of Mount Rainier, it slowly helps turn them into unstable clay. At the same time this internal furnace corrodes the mountain from the inside, rain and melting snow have been softening it up from the outside. The result, in the surprisingly colloquial argot of the geologist, is a mountain gone "rotten." So rotten, in fact, that a mere seismic hiccup is all it would take to unleash an avalanche of mud on the homes below...