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...picturesque geysers and steam holes. But a wave of recent earthquake activity is raising fears that have their origins 642,000 years ago, when a Yellowstone "supervolcano" exploded so violently that it created the caldera itself. Today, such an explosion - 1,000 times more powerful than the explosion of Mount St. Helens in 1980 - would not only cover most of the U.S. with ash but also throw so much dust into the atmosphere that the world's climate could change...
...seriously bleak as 2009 is expected to be, a call to mount barricades and bar the New Year's arrival sounds like a gag even in strike-happy France. That's because Fonacon's protest is decidedly tongue in cheek - though don't expect Marie-Gabriel to admit it. In videos on the group's website, fonacon.net, he dons the signature black balaclava of guerrilla commandos as he calls sympathizers into action...
...people of Mount Pleasant appear to have differently. Vilsack was reelected to another term by write-in votes...
...Pennsylvania native, Vilsack graduated from Hamilton College and Albany Law School. He moved to his wife’s hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he was elected mayor in 1987 after the city’s then-mayor was killed...
...half. The Owls (4-5) were able to use a 29-14 free throw attempt advantage on the game to knock down points from the charity stripe and run past Harvard in the last minute of the contest. Rice did not even need excellent shooting from the line to mount their comeback—it only made 62 percent of its free throw shots for the game—as the pure advantage in quantity proved to be enough to squeak by the hot-shooting Harvard team. Harvard freshman forward Peter Boehm, starting his second game...