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...years, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, destroyed villages and set fires across a small island near Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands. At least 166 people were killed -- most by the 10-ft.-to-30-ft. tidal waves, or tsunamis, that swept victims into the ocean and tossed boats onto the shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest July 11-17 | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...were a 12-year-old boy on a solo Save the Whale campaign, well, you'd slap your favorite marine mammal into a truck for a drive to the Pacific Ocean. And to keep him refreshed, you'd probably run him through an automatic car wash. And then, like an animal tamer who uses love instead of a whip, you'd get your adorable orca to leap over a high jetty so he could be reunited with his pod. You'd go that far for a friend. Where there's a whale, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Of Whales | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...hinted at a catastrophe of epic proportions. But for a month, the sky has fallen, bit by bit and drop by drop, and the waters have gathered on the face of the earth to flow into the river; and now it has risen up and rolled onward like an ocean on the march, capturing farmland and township, bridge and barge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi Rising | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...Beach: A classic hot-weather escape. Two ocean beaches are easily accessible by T: Wollaston Beach, on the Red Line; and Revere Beach, on the Blue Line. Revere Beach is the bigger...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: BEATING THE HEAT | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

...Whale watch. Not only cool, but educational. The ocean and wind will cool you off, and the whales will...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: BEATING THE HEAT | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

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