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...Mount Etna, a long-active peak in Sicily, spewed a river of lava that poured through the streets of Catania. Some 20,000 perished in Catania and 13 other cities and towns...
...fell upon an inhospitable stretch of land on the edge of Mexico City, known as El Pedregal, a huge lava desert left from the eruption of the Xitle volcano 2,500 years ago. Fascinated by the savage beauty of the lava's shapes, Barrag�n and a partner bought 865 acres of the land and began to transform it. Each plot was to be a walled garden, celebrating the lava's strange forms, the cacti and the twisted trees known as palo bobo (silly tree). Each house was to be as simple as possible and should not occupy more than...
...years after the death of Shihuangdi, marauders made off with all the bronze weapons the soldiers carried, and set fire to the wooden roof that covered the long rows of the terra cotta army. The roof collapsed and buried the soldiers alive, as it were, much as Vesuvius' lava covered the citizens of Pompeii. The tomb may have been similarly looted - it must have been an irresistible target. For the Emperor was no ordinary man; he planned no small plans. (Once, when a storm foiled a projected trip to Mount Xiang, he took revenge by ordering the mountain shorn...
...week's end no lava had appeared, although there was still that possibility. There was another danger: the heat of the volcano might melt the 16-ft. snow cover on the mountain, flooding streams and causing massive mud slides. As a precaution, water levels in three reservoirs on the nearby Lewis River were lowered. Meanwhile, scientists and residents kept watching anxiously to see just how angry Mount St. Helens would get. Said Kurt Austermann of the U.S. Forest Service: "We don't want to panic anybody, but nobody really knows whether it's going to start spitting...
...trifecta was an interplanetary long shot. The picture is a computer composite of images radioed to earth by Voyager 1 last March. The three monthlies (total circ. 12,750,000) all sent their covers to press many weeks ago, and the editors say they are not in a lava over the coincidence. Says the Smithsonian's Don Moser: "It just confirms our good judgment." Confirmation does not end at home: China's Ziran Zazhi (Nature) magazine also ran the same cover-on its December issue...