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...issue warnings to the surrounding population while quietly preparing contingency plans to avoid a calamity. Maps plotting the likely course of last week's disaster had been completed only four or five weeks ago. But the next steps had not been taken. Said Darrell Herd, deputy chief of the Reston, Va.-based Office of Earthquakes, Volcanos and Engineering at the U.S. Geological Survey: "The volcano erupted too soon...
...actually a global network of networks that links together the large commercial computer-communications services (like CompuServe, Prodigy and America Online) as well as tens of thousands of smaller university, government and corporate networks. And it is growing faster than O.J. Simpson's legal bills. According to the Reston, Virginia-based Internet Society, a private group that tracks the growth of the Net, it reaches nearly 25 million computer users -- an audience roughly the size of Roseanne's -- and is doubling every year...
...Osama bin Laden. We've been so involved with getting Iraq back on track that bin Laden and al-Qaeda are getting ready to attack us again. So once more we're all on pins and needles, because we don't know when or where or how. Patricia Jones Reston...
...long before now. We've been so involved with getting Iraq back on track that bin Laden and al-Qaeda are getting ready to attack us again. So once more we're all on pins and needles, because we don't know when or where or how. Patricia Jones Reston, Virginia, U.S. Your article reminded us that every American can do something to help in the war on terrorism. If we keep our eyes and ears open, pay attention to and report suspicious activity, we can all play a part in fighting terrorism. You never know where the next...
DIED. HAL WALKER, 70, first African-American correspondent for CBS News; of complications from prostate cancer; in Reston, Va. A New York State public-relations executive when CBS hired him in 1963, Walker covered the riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy and the Iranian hostage crisis during more than three decades in TV news...