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...site chosen is Mauna Kea, a mountain on the island of Hawaii. There is strong support for the project both by the U.S. government and the state of Hawaii which has a large Japanese population. Completion is expected in the early 1990s...
...groundbreaking, potentially sweeping one. Courts in Oregon, Florida and Hawaii have also upheld beach access under the more legally traditional "doctrine of custom." When the beaches have always been open to the public, these courts have held, they must remain so. In Hawaii a tough law forced even the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, one of the world's poshest resorts, to build an access path to the beach for the public. The hotel, however, has reduced the flow of ordinary tourists by charging high parking fees. Such indirect attempts to limit beach-going crowds are common. Resort towns often...
...location for the telescope has not yet been selected because of the stiff requirements--telescopes demand an area that is high, dry and flat. Possible sites include Mauna Kea in Hawaii, Mt. Graham in Arizona, and Mt. Jelm in Wyoming...
When the world's largest active volcano erupted for the first time in nine years, it did so with spectacular fury. Fountains of fiery lava shot 400 ft. into the air from the 1½-mile-wide crater at the summit of Mauna Loa (13,677 ft.). The lava spilled down blackened mountain slopes in thick rivers of gleaming marigold fire, looking demonically magical, an apprentice sorcerer's wish for gold gone awry. At week's end the menacing wall had oozed to within four miles of Hawaii's second-largest city, Hilo...
...Mauna Loa's flow started to slow, its famous and recently active neighbor, Kilauea, 20 miles away, began a new eruption of its own: it is the first time the two volcanoes have spurted simultaneously since 1868. There were, in addition, apocalyptic rumblings on the mainland, where Washington State's Mount St. Helens was once more sputtering smoke...