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...DIED. BOB HUNTER, 63, Greenpeace's media-savvy co-founder, who coined the term Rainbow Warriors to describe the environmental group's hard-charging activists; of prostate cancer; in Toronto. The brusque former journalist deftly manipulated the media with clever, spectacular events and slogans that inspired maximum TV coverage and generated public support for such Greenpeace campaigns as stopping whale hunting, protecting baby seals and reforming logging practices...
DIED. BOB HUNTER, 63, Greenpeace's media-savvy co-founder, who coined the term Rainbow Warriors to describe the environmental group's hard-charging activists; of prostate cancer; in Toronto. The brusque former journalist devised clever slogans and spectacular events to garner maximum TV coverage for such campaigns as those to stop whale hunting, protect baby seals and reform logging practices...
Much of the emphasis at this year's show was on innovations, such as the remodeled Ford, that take soldiers a step away from maximum danger. Quinn, the robot-program manager, thinks the future belongs to those who will move humans even farther from the battlefield. Several of his Talons are already on their way to Iraq...
They will be climbing mountains with a maximum altitude of 18,000 feet, attempting to take the safest routes up these uncharted mountains. They will be able to summon a helicopter in the case of serious injury, but they will be 120 miles away from the nearest village and will have to get the injured climber off the mountain and back to their base camp first...
...Ruiz known as acts of God. For the people who lived and worked in the farmlands around the simmering mountain, the early signs of eruption were accepted as part of the environment. Nor could anyone have predicted that the disaster would finally take place at night, the time of maximum vulnerability. Said Father Augusto Aosorio, one of Armero's parish priests: "We knew the danger was there. But we just cheerfully got accustomed to it." Aosorio was extraordinarily lucky: only hours before the eruption, he had left town to meet with his bishop in Ibagu?...