Word: lavas
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...toes. In the restaurant, 22-year-old chef Andri Johannsson cooks with a Michelin flair. Lobster bisque infused with calvados, honey-roasted catfish, and lamb that quite literally melts in your mouth are served with organic vegetables grown in the hotel garden and wild herbs picked in local lava fields. On weekends, Reyjkavik's hip set descend to drink in the views and taste the excellent minty gin-and-tonic sorbets - a palate-cleansing aperitif, and a nod to the British who occupied Iceland in 1940. That's not to say you should stay indoors. Local company Snjófell...
...AntiGrav, however, mastering complex tricks like the gravitron (that's a backflip plus a 360 spin to the right) takes skill. The better you get, the more you are rewarded with surprises and new challenges. On a level called the Aerodome, for example, you ride through man-made lava, ice and jungles. In the Falls, you soar past waterfalls and skyscrapers. As you jump and duck, flip and soar, the only thing to fear is a wipeout. But in AntiGrav, there is no blood and gore--just hop back on your board and keep riding...
...eruption. And this time the whole world was watching--hundreds through binoculars at safe vantage points, millions more through hourly reports on cable TV. But no one was watching more closely than the scientists monitoring the instruments scattered across the mountain's ash-coated flanks and half-mile-wide lava dome. This early warning network was installed after the 1980 eruption that blew off the top 1,300 ft. of the mountain, destroying tens of thousands of acres of forest and killing 57 people. Although geophysicists expressed confidence that Mount St. Helens will not erupt with anything close...
...worried about lava flowing to Seattle,” said Laura H. Chirot ’08, laughing. “I wish I were there. It’d be a lot more exciting from Seattle...
...While Iceland may be frigid on the outside, it's molten lava on the inside. The most exciting evidence of the heat within is provided by the island's many geysers. Geysir, the original blowhole from which all others get their name, now lies dormant on a grassy slope below Bjarnfell Mountain, 120 km east of Reykjavik. But Geysir's neighbor, Strokkur, is positively explosive; thousands flock yearly to watch it fire off a dazzling 30-m spout of scalding water every few minutes...