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...Indonesian scientists say the Dec. 26 and March 28 quakes off the coast of Sumatra have increased the area's seismic instability, leading to a sudden spike in activity among the country's volcanoes. Government volcanologist Syamsul Rizal says that although chances of a major eruption are slight, scientists are monitoring seismic activity and gas emissions to avoid another devastating surprise like the tsunami: "We already have an early-warning system in place." Official warnings don't cut much ice with Euis Halimah, who runs a tourist stall on the rim of Tangkuban Parahu's sulfurous crater...
...session was hardly a breakthrough, but the outcome, a slight easing of East-West tensions, was nonetheless welcome. When Secretary of State George Shultz emerged last week from the red brick residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Finland overlooking Helsinki harbor, walking in affable fashion alongside him was a smiling newcomer to the game of superpower politics, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, 57, appointed only a month ago. The two men paused briefly to exchange chitchat with the help of interpreters and to pose for eager photographers. Later Shultz declared that three hours of private talks with his Soviet counterpart...
...Moore, the county might be sued. Despite evidence that the AIDS virus can be transmitted only through an exchange of blood or semen, Moore claimed that "the danger was great," even though the likelihood of anyone's having intimate contact with convicts on a road crew would seem slight...
...recent show, to reflect in a misty way about married love, then cuts the mush short of flood stage with a rambling, funny story about how a middle-age Wobegonian and his wife were getting set to spend a night in their camper. But he had parked on a slight incline, and his wife asked him to move the camper to a level spot, and he said she could do it herself, he was not about to go outside in his underwear, and she stomped out, and just as he took off his underpants and reached for his pajama bottoms...
...Gary edited the literary magazine and wrote a noisy, satirical column called "Broadsides," in which he slashed at student radicals, the college president and any other targets that seemed pompous or pretentious. But the storytelling gifts did not immediately appear. In 1966, after he finished college, Keillor "felt a slight urge to head out" from the Midwest, and on a job-hunting swing through the East he applied at half a dozen publications. No takers...