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...second bomb fell and it seemed farther away, or perhaps she was less impressionable: it could fall anywhere it liked except in these packed alleys, with their columns of patient children waiting like tiny, doomed sentries for the lava to roll down the mountain. The band struck up, much louder than before; the processions started, twice as brilliant. The band was playing a marching song and the crowd was clapping to it. Unfreezing her hands, Charlie set down her little girl and started to clap too. . . and now it was the turn of the fishermen's union, represented...
...classes and spend the day with our new treasures, with our old friends, with Zonker. Mark. B D,. Joanie Rick, Uncle Duke, Rev. Sloan Huney, Mr. Slackmeyer, Phred, Bernie, J.J., Boopsie Zeke, Lacey and Dick Davenport, Roland B. Hedley Jr., Jimmy and jenny Thudpucker. Ellie. Howard, Riley, Woody, Lava-Lava, Dr. Dan Asher, kirby, Barney, Weinburger, Duane, Ginny, Clyde, Nicole and Mike Doonesbury...
...Salvador s largest volcanoes, heard the rumblings shortly after dawn, they assumed that it was just another mild earthquake, the sort they had experienced many times before But then a boy ran down the town's main street knocking on doors and screaming: "The lava is coming, the lava is coming! He was wrong- the long-dormant volcano had not erupted-but the neighbors who heeded Ms warning were wise. Within minutes, an 8-ft-high wave of water, mud, boulders and uprooted trees all but destroyed Montebello...
...serious but compelling presentation whose three-acre roof with a partial photovoltaic surface is probably the largest privately built solar-energy collector in the world. Inside, life-size models of dinosaurs fight to the death; there is even an erupting volcano with 7,000 gal. of simulated lava and realistic odors that turn each eruption into a smellodrama. The lava is pumped by the same kind of machine that is used to shoot dog food into cans (it could be nicknamed the Alpo Volcano). The Land (sponsor: Kraft) manages to meld a boat tour, environmental subjects (topsoil loss, space-grown...
...last summer, they were occurring only 2 miles below the surface. Roy Bailey, coordinator of the U.S.G.S.'s volcanic hazards program, suggests that the quakes were caused by the slow upward movement of a tongue of magma-the hot molten rock that forms a volcano's lava. Still another sign: the outbreak of new steam vents, or fumaroles, in the seismically active region...