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...three-part series looks into every field. One of the photographic teams visits another scientist, Dr. Ralph Nelson of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, who is trying to learn the secrets of hibernation in bears. Unlike humans, who simply waste away when they go without food for long periods, hibernating bears exist for months on only excess...
...humans could do the same, they might go for months without eating, and famine might be eliminated. An astronaut 40 Ibs. overweight, says Nelson, could survive three months in ursine hibernation...
...Amboy to makeshift refugee camps. It was their second evacuation, and the volcano's continuing assaults were beginning to fray tempers. Said Otis Bouchard, a gas station operator in Castlerock: "I'll tell you one thing. I'm getting damn tired of this mountain." Tom Nelson, a supervisor at a devastated timber camp, echoed that frustration with an understandable, if implausible suggestion: "Why don't they just take a couple of jets and bomb the mountain...
When at last the darkness began to lift, Nelson and Ruff began looking for their friends. They saw nothing but ashes and logs where Varner's tent had been; she and Crall later were found dead. The two other members of the camping group, Dan Balch and Brian Thomas, were alive -barely. Burned skin hung loose from Balch's shoulders to his hands, and he was in shock. He was unable to walk. Thomas, wearing only the long john bottoms in which he had been sleeping, was lying dazed under a log. Nelson and Ruff hauled...
...Then Nelson and Ruff began what turned into a 15-mile, ten-hour trek away from the mountain, over what Nelson calls a "white-hot desert" of ash. They soon joined up with a 60-year-old man. The three kept up their spirits by singing bawdy songs. In late afternoon they heard helicopters overhead and waved some of their clothes to stir up a dust cloud large enough to attract the pilot's attention. They were rescued, and choppers soon carried out Balch and Thomas as well...