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...like a routine job. All they had to do was contain a modest-size fire, stopping its advance or nudging it in a safe direction. And they would do so at an altitude near 7,000 ft. on a 45 degrees slope, staring into the scorch of a natural inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Be Young Once, And Brave | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

Besides e-mail, students use Harvards' link tothe Internet to read electronic bulletin boardssuch as Usenet news, to join on-line discussiongroups and to carry on long-distance conversationson screen--all for free. They can accesseverything from 15th century commentaries onDante's Inferno top telephone directories.Students also may look for library books throughHOLLIS (Harvard's On-Line Library InformationSystem) or even find and run applications softwarefor their personal computers...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: University Moves Onto Infohighway | 4/5/1994 | See Source »

...like a ] towering inferno, to describe it mildly," Pasquarello said about the fire, which raged from 11 at night well into Saturday morning and drove 29 families into the street...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Five Local Police Officers Honored for Valor in October Fire | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

Christian legends are different. Lucifer vaingloriously sought to overturn the regime in heaven and waged war against God's loyalists. Defeated by the Archangel Michael, the angel who would be God was cast into his inferno, to brood in the darkness, "hatching vain empires." With him went about a third of the heavenly host, a horde of fallen angels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sympathy for the Devil | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

Many of Yale's twelve residential colleges sponsor annual parties, and the "Screw Your Roommate Dance" is not just a Harvard phenomenon. The Pierson "Inferno" and the Silliman "Safety Dance" are still in the backs of the minds of many Yale students...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Myriads of Problems Beset Yale University | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

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