Word: lavas
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Three precision blasts combat a raging river of lava...
...Sicily's east coast have always lived uneasily in the shadow of Mount Etna, which has erupted 22 times in the past 75 years. Two months ago, Europe's tallest active volcano (10,700 ft.) awoke once again. Down its south face surged a molten ribbon of lava that destroyed a dozen buildings and more than 370 acres of fields and forests, causing millions of dollars' worth of damage...
...effort to divert the magma, Italy's minister of civil protection summoned a team of volcanologists. The strategy: to redirect the lava from its southward path into a wide hollow, away from inhabited areas. The specialists hoped that spreading the lava would speed its cooling, and thus slow the momentum of the flow. The diversion required the removal of a 25-ft. section in a 328-ft.-long natural wall of old lava, and was to be accomplished by precision blasting...
...turned outside of man. And Sarah rode the motions of her own and Michael's unconsciousness, quiet, submissive, faintly delirious, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly until the fire caught--the Volcano erupted--The Boundaries Dissolved--The Heat Flowed O*U*T!! and she screamed. And she rode the crest of the lava in tumultuous, selfless joy down the side of the mountain until slowly, slowly, she came to an easy gradual rest at the foot of a hill, and there the girlfriend found the boyfriend again...
That's a lot of lava for any bedroom, not to mention a Lowell House single. But Faye Levine is only the latest in a long series of Harvard novelists whose scenes of passion defy all reasonable expectation. Who, for example, ever would have anticipated the peculiar interest several writers demonstrate for one Harvard landmark...