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...with still larger troubles. "The river's going crazy," said National Weather Service hydrologist Ernest Cathey in Fort Worth. As it inundated immense swaths of ranchland, stranding herds of livestock and driving out hundreds of families, the Trinity at times looked like a vast lake. To people in its path, especially in Liberty County, 50 miles or so northeast of Houston, officials issued a blunt warning: "Get out now." A most discouraging word came from Trinity River Authority spokesman John Jadrosich, who said floods may linger through the summer in a "mega- natural disaster...
...share Solzhenitsyn's antipathy toward progress. If mankind is the healthy organism I believe it to be, then progress, science and the constructive application of intelligence will enable us to cope with the dangers facing us. Having set out on the path of progress several millenniums ago, mankind cannot halt now -- nor should...
Some volunteers remained behind to move the historic Star of the Sea Roman Catholic church -- a structure noted for its interior wall paintings -- out of the path of destruction. By the time the lava flow sputters off into the ocean, Kalapana will be no more. Says Harry Kim, Hawaii County's civil-defense chief: "This community is finished. This land won't be productive for 150 years...
...seeking to absorb and understand the power of those ties and the "splendour and desolation" of the land, Glass set out from Alexandretta, now in southern Turkey, to Aqaba in Jordan, following the invasion path used by Alexander the Great and the Crusaders. His odyssey ended abruptly when a peculiarly modern kind of tribe, the Hizballah, kidnaped and held him hostage in Beirut for two months until his escape. The trip is the framework for this book. He describes it as a "literary and spiritual ramble through the history of a troubled land." It is really a travelogue, letting...
...enterprises. In the U.S.-based war on drugs, Fujimori would not eradicate Peru's vast coca-growing areas with herbicides, but would train farmers to plant replacement crops such as achiote and coffee. He also told TIME, "I'm not going to dialogue with the Sendero," the Shining Path guerrillas who roam freely in at least one-third of the country. But he added, "It's completely illusory to think that you can solve the problem with arms...