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...Kramer, his wife and daughter took off to the northwest toward the Pacific in the four-seat Piper that he had purchased three years ago for $33,000. He then banked to the right and headed eastward toward Big Bear Lake. At that point he was in a sector far enough from LAX to avoid the controlled space if he kept his plane below 6,000 ft. Tragically...
...only warning was a nocturnal rumble that resembled distant thunder. Then a silent plume of colorless gas shot up from the turbulent depths of Lake Nios, just inside Cameroon's northwest border. Within minutes, the heavy fumes of carbon dioxide burst over the rim and sank into the valley below, enveloping sleepy hamlets in a deadly bubble. Villagers who had already bedded down for the night quietly suffocated in their sleep...
...desperately stripped off their dresses and shirts to escape the burning caused by the gas. Later they were found only yards from their crumpled clothes, overcome by asphyxiation. "I saw people dying, people dead all around," recalled Ephrem Ngong Kum, 24, of Su-Bum, a village some 200 miles northwest of Yaounde, Cameroon's capital. "They died in the houses, in streets, outside the forest, in the stream." Fellow Villager Chia David Wambong remembered a warm feeling, as if he were drunk. "Everyone started to cough, and some people vomited blood," he said. "I saw people on the ground screaming...
Another U.S. air strike against Libya? Not quite. This time the bombs fell on a mock target near Wadi Natrun, some 50 miles northwest of Cairo, during U.S.-Egyptian military exercises last week. But the explosions that jarred the desert floor helped set off diplomatic reverberations in Libya and around the world...
...Northwest is on fire. Since the beginning of August, 600,000 acres in six states have been ignited by lightning storms and kept ablaze by erratic summer winds. The raging flames have consumed prime lumber land in Oregon and Idaho, as well as parts of Washington, Montana, Utah and Nevada...