Word: skies
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Washington State is not the only place where volcanoes loom. There are explosive mountains in every corner of the world. Late last week, Alaska's Okmok volcano coughed a cloud of ash nearly a mile into the sky, perhaps presaging a period of increased volcanic activity. Near Mexico City, Popocatepetl, a 17,887-ft. volcanic peak, has begun to smoke and churn, threatening 500,000 people who live beneath it. In Italy five active volcanoes are being watched, the most menacing of which is the temperamental Vesuvius. In Japan 86 active volcanoes are packed onto an archipelago smaller than California...
Have you ever felt compelled to leave the crowded, industrial Northeast Corridor and head for a place where the buffalo roam? Try the Best Western Bucks T-4 Lodge in Big Sky, Mont., at (406) 995-4111, where 20 percent of summer employees are college students. You can earn a whopping $6 an hour by staffing the front desk. Yet the cost of living is cheap; you can get room and board for $45 a week, and have time for plenty of pleasure reading...
...modern" beauties in painting. Not wardrobes of flesh like Rubens' goddesses, not pneumatic dolls like Boucher's nymphs, they are (relatively) slender, blond to redhead, and have the minxy arrogance and perfectly toned skin of runway models, inaccessible, gazing down from their nests of vapor in the blue-rinsed sky above. In Tiepolo, the women always seem to be running the show; his emblematic heroes like Rinaldo, by comparison, look almost effeminate...
...There's this area in Montreal called the village," Lin recalls. "Someone recommended the Sky Club. We didn't know it was gay. We walked in and everyone was male. There was a male dancer in boxers on the stage...
...matter what happens in New Orleans, they'll always have Green Bay that Sunday afternoon. Under a sky suddenly turned blue, the fans cheered their hearts out as the players came down off the platform. Some of the Packers did patented Lambeau Leaps into the laps of the parishioners. Favre and White held the Halas Trophy together for a while, and then White took off around the field to show it to the fans. He was bringing to them what they had brought...