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...survival. That depends on his "impeccable will"; and Castaneda's third and finest book, Journey to Ixtlan, describes the forging of that will, as Don Juan-without drugs -communicates the lessons of the warrior's power to his obstinately Cartesian student in the bright burnt mountains and lava gorges of Mexico...
...Sprague's success, says one judge, "is the logic of the case as he puts it together. It just grinds ahead like a river of lava, crushing everything in its path." That logic derives from meticulous preparation. When the Yablonskis were murdered in their beds in Clarksville, Pa., the local prosecutor knew the case was too big to handle, so Sprague was asked to take charge. By that time, the FBI had captured one gunman, Claude Vealey. He led the FBI to four others: Aubran Martin, a baby-faced hoodlum; Paul Gilly, a burglar; his wife Annette, and Silous...
...campaign began, antitobacco fervor swept through Mauriac. Gaily colored banners proclaiming IT is POSSIBLE TO STOP SMOKING, EMANCIPATE YOURSELF IN FIVE DAYS began to brighten the dreary walls of lava stone buildings. Merchants reported a rush on licorice drops, peanuts, chewing gum, after-dinner mints and other tobacco substitutes. A man of God?his own flesh too weak to relinquish the weed completely?preached a sermon of support from his pulpit in the town's basilica. "I am not one of the courageous 155," acknowledged Father Leon Dumas. "But I have rationed myself down from ten to five cigarettes...
...hidden from earth, and measured the solar wind, the constant streams of particles that flow away from the sun. His most important observation may well have been a visual one: he described large globs of material near the Crater Mandelshtam that provided scientists with the first evidence of ancient lava flows on the moon's far side...
...original crustal rock dating back to the moon's birth some 4.6 billion years ago; 2) a layer that was melted and then hardened after the great asteroid impacts that created such large features as the Sea of Rains nearly a billion years later; and 3) more recent lava flows, possibly produced by the eruption of volcanoes. Explains Caltech Geologist Eugene Shoemaker: "The geology of the lunar highlands is incredibly difficult and complex, far more so than the earth...