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LOOKS LIKE A LAVA LAMP, GROSSES OUT ADULTS...
...place of all. Amid the clutter of bills, floral bouquets, newspaper clippings, medical journals and stash boxes is Leary's deathbed, and on either side of it are a huge tank of laughing gas and an Apple computer. Bathing the Mac in red light is that hippie relic, the lava lamp...
...three years in prison. When he was released, he turned his attentions to SMILE (Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, Life Extension) and then to vaudeville--a debate circuit with Watergate figure and old nemesis Liddy. His last few years have been spent migrating in cyberspace, trading on our nostalgia for lava lamps and dealing with cancer doctors...
...bizarre and instructive extremes. The archipelago's 15 main and 106 smaller islands are dotted with the volcanoes that gave birth to the Galapagos more than 3 million years ago; some are still active. Opuntia cactus, spiny acacias and palo santo trees have taken root amid the hardened lava of the lowlands. On some of the largest islands, the higher elevations have patches of dense, moist forests dominated by Scalesia trees, which are giant relatives of sunflowers, and by giant ferns...
According to Renne, these traps (from trappa, the Swedish word for stairs) are composed mainly of glassy basalt, laid down by huge rivers of flowing lava. But amid the basalt, which extends across an area of a million square miles, scientists have also found telltale pieces of tuff, a type of rock indicative of powerful explosions. What this means, says Renne, is that the volcanoes could have easily hurled sulfur dioxide and other gases high enough into the atmosphere to block sunlight and cause substantial cooling. And if the earth cooled enough--locking up more and more water in polar...