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...excavated. A long-buried murder that comes to light cuts to the heart of the family, or should. The discovery provokes another death. Yet the survivors behave more or less as they would have done if nothing had occurred. This is not satire, with the family members portrayed as herd animals who go on grazing as a lion drags down one of them. The author is sharp but not cruel. She does not tell her story in order to solve a murder (although solve it she does) nor to subject her characters to unbearable stress in order to analyze their...
...little surprise that cowboys write poetry. Knox has spent hours in the saddle watching the south end of a herd moving north, with plenty of time to roll phrases around on his tongue. He is observant, a necessity for the writing of verse or the tracking of cows. Good poetry demands good drama, and that is no stranger to Knox either...
Five hours have passed since the riders left Twin Buttes. A hot autumn sun has burned away the dawn's biting chill, and the cowboys have gathered about 100 head of cattle from among the cedars and hillocks. Knox watches as they herd the cattle into a dusty pen. On horseback the cowpunchers separate five long-eared calves that escaped spring branding and guide them, along with their mothers and a few strays, into a smaller enclosure...
...eventually causing authorities to issue warnings to the surrounding population while quietly preparing contingency plans to avoid a calamity. Maps plotting the likely course of last week's disaster had been completed only four or five weeks ago. But the next steps had not been taken. Said Darrell Herd, deputy chief of the Reston, Va.-based Office of Earthquakes, Volcanos and Engineering at the U.S. Geological Survey: "The volcano erupted too soon...
According to Herd, of the U.S. Geological Survey, the Colombians had begun to take precautions when the cataclysm struck. Authorities had established three separate teams of experts to address the volcanic threat: one to monitor the development of the hazard, another to gather information about the likely outcome of an eruption and a third to formulate an emergency plan. As part of that response, the Colombians had produced the so-called hazard maps that so accurately laid out the path of the looming disaster...