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...varieties of U.S. horned toads. A brightly splotched variety lives in Arizona's Painted Desert, a drab single-toned variety on the drab soil of Oregon, a white variety on the white alkali soil of the Amargosa Desert, a black variety on the West's black lava belts. Such adaptations sometimes occur before the very eyes of biologists: during the industrialization of Germany a black moth replaced a former pale variety in factory areas...
...look than the ice for which it is named. That Reyk means smoke and Reykjavik is "the smoking harbor." That Mount Hekla was considered by medieval Icelandic monks the entrance into Hell. That the poetic Icelanders have named their rocks and rills Waterfall of the Gods and Lava of Evil Deeds and Trembling River...
...high country of Colorado, and its capital, Reykjavik, has about the same mean annual temperature as New York City. But while the island was a subject of various European nations during the last 1,100 years, its timber was exploited until its hills lay rock-naked as its lava wastes. New forests never grew because, in winter, shepherds would turn out their hungry flocks, which gnawed groves of saplings, preventing the regrowth of natural forests...
Howlin' Mad finally went to Washington to see his boss, chunky Major General Holcomb, commandant of the Corps. Tommy Holcomb heard General Smith's lava-like flow of words, told him to go ahead. Last October, the First Brigade, 3,000 strong, heaved its seabags aboard the transport Barnett at Norfolk and shoved off. Last week the last units of the outfit came back. It was now the First Division, U.S.M.C., more than 8,000 strong, and Howlin' Mad, ruddier than ever, had the two stars of a major general on his shoulder straps. He also...
...second Day of Prayer was Sunday, March 23, 1941, when Adolf Hitler's Balkan advance seemed to have the implacable flow of volcanic lava. Four days later came the upset in Yugoslavia. The same week came the British capture of Cheren and Harar, the Italian naval defeat in the Mediterranean. Twice Britain's prayers had been answered...