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Rarely could a place have been so inaptly named. High on Mount Etna is a lodge for skiers and hikers called Rifugio Sapienza, or the Wisdom Refuge. Anyone with an ounce of wisdom wouldn't have built it on Europe's highest and most active volcano. Etna began blowing July 13, and last week burning lava came within just yards of the refuge and nearby stores...
...photographic essay on the eruption of Mount Etna, go to time.com/etna
...have two choices: the speculations of anthropologists or the Book of Genesis. Both are beyond proof, but which speaks to the inmost perceptions of the soul? JAMES R. SCHAEFER Mount Prospect...
Bush seemed equally confident and brushed aside warnings that last week's victories would be a distant memory come fall, when Senate Democrats mount their counterattack. But then anyone who takes so much pleasure in the hot wallow of his vacation destination must have thick skin. Bush's 1,600-acre ranch in central Texas is dusty, dry and a world away from his father's preppy enclave in Kennebunkport, Me. "The national media will hate it," Bush gleefully told Republican Senators, "but I'm going where it's 98 degrees average temperature, day and night." His Crawford obsession...
...During the Gulf War and after, America has always needed Arab support to mount a viable campaign against Saddam Hussein. And the perceived U.S. role in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict precludes such support, almost by definition. No wonder, then, that Saddam makes a point of sending thousands of dollars to the family of every Palestinian slain in confrontations with the Israelis. Because the Iraqi leader may well have been the biggest beneficiary of the intifada...