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Would that be safe? Carbon dioxide can be lethal, a fact grimly illustrated in 1986 when a giant surge of the stuff bubbled up from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, asphyxiating 1,700 people as they slept. Nonetheless, investigators involved in the Thornton project insist there is little cause for worry. "The fields held oil and gas for millennia," says Larry Myer, an earth scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., and the project's director, "so geologically we know they're going to hold...
...Burton could sell his bottles of wry whimsy to film fans, Matthew Bourne has managed a tougher trick: getting the mass audience to go crazy for ballet. The English choreographer's updating of The Nutcracker and Cinderella have been perennials of the London theater. His all-male Swan Lake was a Broadway sensation in 1998. He also brought Samuel Beckett's Play Without Words to dance life. In a more traditional mode, Bourne co-directed and co-choreographed the Disney stage musical of Mary Poppins , which started in London and came to Broadway last November. Demolishing conventions, bestriding art forms...
John J. Pickreign, SARANAC LAKE...
...ironic that the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence and the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade fall in the same year? Time could have done Ghana's tourism industry a great favor by including photographs of some of the castles, beautiful sandy beaches and Lake Volta. I would like to have seen mention of some of the country's personalities, like former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and President John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor. And of course Ghana is full of friendly and warm people. We are a peaceful country with a peaceful people. Kofi Amoah...
...residents of Daniels Tower off from their rooms, and forced Currier residents to head to other dining halls for dinner. House Co-Master Joseph L. Badaracco said that he was informed at around 4 p.m. on Friday that the pipe had burst. “There was this lake of disgusting sewage in the middle of Lower Main,” he said. “Even the drains were overflowing with the smelly water. We didn’t hesitate to immediately close the dining hall. I yelled across the lake of sewage to one of the Daniels Tower...