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...stuck in a pond in the San Francisco Zoo, it's not easy to swim to South America. That, however, is what a flock of 52 penguins appears to have been trying to do since Christmas Eve, and zookeepers admit they have no idea how to get them to stop...
...trek, our party of 11?Xall cousins from the U.S., ranging in age from 15 to 64?Xwould see more bears, as well as reindeer, foxes, ermines and half-meter-long trout. We would hike up an active volcano during a hurricane and skinny-dip in a hot, sulfurous pond. We would marvel at spouting geysers and boiling mudholes in psychedelic hues. We would share vodka and salmon caviar with melancholy park rangers in ramshackle huts. And we would be seduced by the mystery of Kamchatka, a land of fire and ice that remains one of the wildest places...
...blue gray; of steaming fumaroles puffing from deep crevasses; and of more than 200 geysers, some of which spout boiling water over 30 meters into the air. Similarly dramatic was the nearby Uzon Caldera, a 15-sq-km geothermal field where we bathed in a warm, sulfurous-smelling pond. As we coated ourselves with the mud, thinking "spa," our cook, Elena, a regular visitor to the spot, warned, "Don't stay in too long?Xthe radon gas is not good for your heart." Oops...
They were just getting started. The next day, North Korean scientists began removing seals and surveillance cameras from a cooling pond where spent fuel rods had been lying untouched. They reopened a nearby facility designed to extract plutonium, which can be used to fashion nuclear bombs, from the spent fuel. Appearing at the door of the Yongbyon guesthouse accommodating the two U.N. inspectors, a smiling North Korean official read aloud a letter informing them it was time to leave--immediately. The official volunteered that there were in fact two seats on the next Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang to Beijing...
Just Married screens at 12, 2:20, 4:55, 7:10 and 10 p.m. at Loews Cineplex Fresh Pond, 168 Alewife Brook Pkwy, and at 12:50, 3:40, 6:20, 9:25 and 11:45 p.m. at Loews Cineplex Boston Common, 175 Tremont...