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...walk through those gates and you're in your very own Garden of Eden. Mount Auburn Street could be a million miles away. This fall the energetic House Committee sent two busloads of Lowellians to romp in the leaves of western Massachusetts. The Winter Waltz brings Vienna to your very own dining hall. In the spring you can smell the roses that one of the tutors cares for so reverently, and you can help set off the "cannons" for the annual open-air read-through of the 1812 Overture. And what other house hosts the longest running opera...
What little volcanologists have learned over the centuries has come at a fearsome price. Beginning in A.D. 79, when the Roman scientist Pliny the Elder was killed while observing an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, volcanology has been one of the world's more dangerous fields of study. Over the past 11 years, sudden eruptions -- including major blasts in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines -- have killed an estimated 26,000 people; since 1979 at least 12 scientists have perished while seeking to plumb the fiery mysteries...
That left Washington to mount a friendly takeover of the Vance-Owen negotiations in the vague hope it could somehow make them turn out better. How much Clinton expects to change the existing plan is uncertain, though U.S. officials did vow not to force anything on Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats. Secretary of State Warren Christopher put the best gloss he could on the importance of "bringing the full weight of American diplomacy to bear." The U.S. was for the first time taking a direct role in the negotiations. Washington will send its own envoy, veteran diplomat and current...
There is hope, though, that forecasts will improve. In Nature, geophysicist Hazel Rymer and colleagues at England's Open University reported a possible sign of an impending eruption: shifts in gravity. They found that the gravitational field around Italy's Mount Etna increased sharply six months before it spewed forth in December...
...seemed he had won the war over his succession, prompted by corporate missteps such as the acquisition of E.F. Hutton and faltering earnings. Wall Street, however, was not buying Robinson's triumph: in 10 minutes following the announcement, American Express shares lost $700 million in value. Pressures continued to mount throughout the week as share prices slumped, powerful institutional investors expressed their anger, and three dissenting board members resigned. On Friday Robinson bowed out, citing "the good of the company" and his desire not to impede Golub's autonomy...