Word: lassen
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Wills ($49). One of four programs in the Personal Lawyer series produced by Lassen Software of Chico, Calif, this software package offers individuals with a simple estate a quick way to draw up a will without an attorney's help. The program poses questions in plain English (sample: "Do you wish to leave any part of your estate to your college?"), waits until the user types in the answers and then leads him through the process of drawing up the document. Written by a lawyer who specializes in wills, the program satisfies the probate requirements of every state except...
...eruption of Mount St. Helens, which began in a minor way on March 27, was the first in the continental U.S. since the Cascades' Mount Lassen, 400 miles to the south, spit up a shower of mud and stones in 1914. Had last week's explosion occurred in a heavily populated area, the loss of life would have been awesome. Geologists estimated that St. Helens spewed out about 1.5 cubic miles of debris, a blast on about the same order of magnitude as the one in A.D. 79 from Italy's Vesuvius, which buried Pompeii and Herculaneum...
...wish last week when Mount St. Helens, a peaceful-looking 9,677-ft. peak in the white-topped Cascade Range, suddenly spewed out a spectacular 20,000-ft. plume of gas and ash. The eruption was the first in the continental U.S. since 1914, when Mount Lassen, part of the Cascades in Northern California, came to life. Said Robert Tilling of the U.S. Geological Survey: "It's fabulous! We can actually monitor the reawakening of a dormant volcano with modern instrumentation. We're going to get a much better handle on our whole model of how the earth...