Word: lavas
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Robert M. Koenig ’06-’07 described seeing “the plume of steam from where the lava was still pouring into the ocean” on one outing. “It was beautiful,” he said...
...Rodr?guez, nacido en San Antonio, TX, de ascendencia mexicana, prefiere mantenerse fuera de Hollywood y conduce Troublemaker Studios en Austin, TX. Sus sangrientas cintas, la primera fue El mariachi, y alegres fantas?as -la ?ltima es The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl en tercera dimensi?n- han ganando m?s de $565 millones. Su triunfo ha facilitado el camino para una nueva generaci?n de cineastas, tales como el chileno Nicol?s L?pez de veinte y pico de a?os, que est? causando conmoci?n en Hollywood con su pel?cula, Promedio rojo. Pero Rodr?guez, de 37 a?os no est? preparado para hablar sobre su legado...
...Starbucks new clout with music companies. Madonna's Maverick label gave Starbucks an exclusive six-week window to sell Alanis Morissette's all-acoustic version of her first hit album, Jagged Little Pill, and the coffee company is launching a new girl group, Antigone Rising, whose debut CD (from Lava Records) is available only through Starbucks. "With file-sharing being as rampant as it is, the industry is competing with free," says Jim Donio, head of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers. "Getting people to hear new music and actually want to buy it is the best way we know...
...double eruption produced none of the spectacular lava displays that characterize such perennially active volcanoes as Hawaii's Kilauea. Instead, the superheated magma within Nevado del Ruiz began to melt the thick blanket of snow and ice that caps the top 2,000 ft. of the peak. Filthy water started to flow down the sides of the mountain. The trickle swiftly turned into a torrent of viscous mud, stones, ashes and debris with a crest of 15 ft. to 50 ft. The liquid avalanche, known as a lahar, was soon hurtling down the steep slopes at speeds...
...eerie similarity to the 1980 detonation of Washington State's Mount St. Helens, which left an estimated 65 people dead and missing. The initial Nevado del Ruiz blast sent steam and millions of tons of ash into the Andean air, but the debris was followed by almost no lava. About 90 minutes after the initial detonation, there was a second. It was so forceful that it shook the air in Cali, 150 miles to the southwest. Said a civil defense worker in that city: "At first I thought it might be a terrorist bombing in our neighborhood...