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About half a dozen HUPD officers in cruisers, on mountain bikes and in a police van, partially blocked Plympton Street for nearly 20 minutes as they waited for State Police troopers to arrive since the initial attack took place beside the river, which falls under state jurisdiction...
...ravenous mountain claims more and more territory, shrinking the boundaries of the safe zone, the once booming tourist destination moves closer to extinction. Towering menacingly above the island, Soufriere Hills erupts periodically, without warning. During explosions, even people in the safe zones wear gas masks and hard hats...
Under the growing pressure of subterranean steam against the mountain's molten core, the volcano's cap could eventually blow out entirely. Montserrat, not much more than a slender arc of farm and beach land surrounding the volcano, could virtually disappear. More likely, the mountain may keep on belching for months or years, slowly smothering the little island. Already it is a paradise lost for its citizens as fewer than 4,000 cling to their homeland. "If everyone leaves," says Radio Montserrat general manager Rose Willock, who lost her home a month ago, "Montserrat will become just another island that...
ORLANDO, Fla: The most frightening thing at Disney World used to be Space Mountain. Now, it's mosquitoes. After Florida health officials sounded the alarm this week that some of the blood-sucking critters may carry St. Louis encephalitis ? a virus-born ailment which damages the brain ? the company decided to close its three water parks and swimming pools an hour early each day, to protect sunbathing vacationers during peak feeding time. Meanwhile Mickey and Goofy will continue to work full shifts at Disney's three theme parks, where spraying has already taken place. Not taking any chances, the Magic...
What Parker and Stone want most, it seems, is to achieve the brilliant, bizarre randomness of The Simpsons. In one episode the boys encounter a mountain beast that weaves baskets. One of its arms is a stalk of celery; one of its legs is a full-figure replica of Step by Step star Patrick Duffy. Parker and Stone are not without broad imaginations, but South Park ultimately comes off as just so many out-of-nowhere jokes and images that don't take us anyplace...