Word: mud
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...Chloe” is not irredeemable, particularly for readers from the world being described. My reading of “Chloe” elicited many loud “I’ve totally been there” chuckles, particularly when Krinsky gives us students slipping in the mud at the Harvard-Yale tailgate, the hopeless tangle of crushes that enmesh a group of friends, or the occasional high intellectual in-joke: “Les autres, are, after all, hell—unless they are fucking you on your desk,” she says, describing the relationship between...
...Armero itself, rescue helicopters took off and landed on a grassy slope beside a lake of mud where a town once stood. A crew of 78 rescuers occupied the area, rushing gray-caked victims in stretchers made from coffee bags strung between poles. Badly overworked and undersupplied, the crew viewed the relief situation as increasingly desperate. "We are working against time," said Ral Alferez, a Colombian Red Cross worker. "There are still a lot of people out there to be rescued, and we are not getting to them...
...only answer was that it was better than nothing. Despite the lack of supplies and equipment, small miracles were taking place amid the devastation. Using a bottle of mineral water sparingly as a solvent, a young Red Cross doctor patiently removed a stifling mud casing from a toddler, to discover a girl wearing tiny golden earrings. The doctor removed mud from the child's eyes and mouth, and was rewarded with a cry of "Mami." The youngster, named Sandra, was one of only five small children rescued Friday from the mud of Armero. A three-year-old boy was found...
Efrain Gmez Primo, 34, had every reason to be grateful for miracles. Helplessly wedged between wooden slats in mud and water that reached up to his neck, Gmez had been lost and rediscovered three times in the wake of the avalanche. His hair and mustache matted with muck, Gmez talked as four farm workers from a neighboring town cut away the restraining slats and removed a bamboo pole that the survivor was clutching with all his strength. Next to him was the body of his landlady, who had died, Gmez said, "about an hour...
...that the phenomena will be of minor intensity, but they will be equally dangerous." For one thing, he asserts, the large glaciers that surround the crater of Nevado del Ruiz have still not been warmed by the eruptions. If those rivers of ice should melt, they would create additional mud avalanches that would place rescuers in serious danger...