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...Discovered in 1941, this hidden canyon in the Kronotsky Nature Preserve is one of the world's geothermal wonders. Rickety boardwalks snake through a hell's kitchen of bubbling mud pots in rainbow hues of ocher, pea green and blue gray; of steaming fumaroles puffing from deep crevasses; and of more than 200 geysers, some of which spout boiling water over 30 meters into the air. Similarly dramatic was the nearby Uzon Caldera, a 15-sq-km geothermal field where we bathed in a warm, sulfurous-smelling pond. As we coated ourselves with the mud, thinking "spa," our cook, Elena...
Still, it's hard not to get choked up when you see a sheriff recover a shaken but healthy baby--snatched out of her mother's arms by a tornado--from the mud outside what used to be her home. The scene captures weather news' appeal: it's scary and soothing at the same time. There are no bad guys, the sun will always come back eventually, and you don't have to question your faith in human goodness over a hurricane. As Storm Stories host Jim Cantore puts it, "People can accept that the weather can get nasty. They...
...caravan of misery," the trip made good on Lula's election promise to take his ministers to see the suffering of the country's rural areas at first hand. Seemingly oblivious to the blazing sun, the Workers' Party leader hugged locals and stopped off in half a dozen mud homes to speak with the families living there. All the mothers he spoke with raise their children alone, on incomes far below the minimum wage. Few have the means to provide basic necessities like food, let alone pay for running water or schooling. "This is a practical demonstration of the importance...
...threatened to turn to chaos. Frustrated at the three-hour wait for Mwai Kibaki, the crowd crushed forward, causing dozens of people to faint from suffocation. When outgoing President Daniel arap Moi stood, Kenyans angry at his 24 years of corrupt and autocratic misrule pelted the dais with mud and drowned out his speech with chants of "All is possible without Moi" and, simply, "Go Away." Street urchins took advantage of the confusion to snatch wallets, cell phones and cameras. "I have no clue who's in charge of the security operation," said a harried policewoman. "The army shoves people...
...clumsy cover-up. She choked back tears last week as she read a statement, confessing, "I am not a superwoman." On the Monica scale, "Cherie-gate" doesn't have much weight. But it has stained Cherie's rep as a bright, popular woman, and some of the mud could stick to her PM husband. For another lawyer's experienced opinion on the subject, Cherie might give Hillary a call...