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...After seeing those people die," Williams recalled last week, "I just said 'Goddammit, I don't want to die,' and I started running as fast as I could." Scrambling down the slippery, ash-coated outer slope of the cone, he and three other scientists were bombarded with boulders the size of TV sets. "They split open when they hit the ground," said McFarlane. "Inside they were glowing red." One of the flying boulders crushed to death Colombian geochemist Jose Arles Zapata. Williams was felled as well, but managed to drag himself to partial shelter behind a huge rock...
More likely than not, a threatening asteroid of that size would be spotted earlier. But so-called long-period comets (those making their first appearance or returning at intervals of greater than 200 years) are another matter. Appearing without warning as they streak in from the outer reaches of the solar system, they usually become visible to astronomers only from a few months to two years before passing Earth. Should one suddenly appear on a collision course, traveling as fast as 217,000 km/h (135,000 m.p.h.) relative to Earth, defenders would not have the luxury of years of observation...
...outer wear, he dons a too-new leather jacket with studs (NOT the Fonzi kind). Or better yet, a cloak (like Fester...
...This store is spectacular. It's the outer limits," Munro adds...
...authorities to delay the release of 52 American hostages during the 1980 election concluded that "the great weight of evidence is that there was no such deal." But the committee report did charge that the conduct of Reagan campaign chairman and later CIA Director William Casey verged "on the outer limits of propriety" when he secretly gathered intelligence on the delicate U.S.-Iranian hostage negotiations in 1980. The investigation, run on a shoestring budget, never did find such critical evidence as Casey's passport or hundreds of hours of vital FBI surveillance tapes. Perhaps a parallel House investigation expected next...