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...latest series of eruptions were even more spectacular. A plume of volcanic ash rose 40,000 ft. high, and lightning caused brilliant yellow and red flashes that illuminated the volcano against the night sky and revealed the area's coastline. Pilots reported seeing lava on the volcano's northwestern slope, although scientists were unable to confirm the sightings, saying the flow could have been a mixture of hot gas and ash. Though Redoubt had quieted down by week's end, experts cautioned that another violent outburst was possible as soon as sufficient energy has built up within the core...
...others disagree; to them, food and water, even through a tube, represents the necessities of life and constitutes basic care. Some experts also debate whether there is a clear or a blurred line between withholding nourishment and the next step, injecting death-inducing drugs. Many worry about a slippery slope that could lead to legalized euthanasia and suicide, and a general devaluation of life, particularly of those who are incompetent or elderly...
...length of a candle. They come from three-four- and five-year-olds who fell before a rain of automatic gunfire. In a corner of the room, elephant tails, rancid and maggot infested, lie in a heap. Behind the building, skulls bleach in the sun. And just up a slope, an orphaned elephant greedily nurses on a bottle of formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper. Unless led away, an orphan will linger by its fallen mother until it collapses from starvation or thirst. And a mature elephant coming across a carcass, even one streaked with vulture...
...AMERICAN RELUCTANCE. The Administration still seems perplexed over arms control, fearful of both a domestic right-wing assault on its policies and of sliding down the slippery slope of psychological disarmament. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, for one, is determined to stonewall arms treaties until congressional funding of his defense budget is ensured. And although Bush allowed last week that a strategic-arms treaty could be achieved by next year's summit, key White House aides seem inclined to dismiss START as a bothersome holdover from the Reagan Administration...
...didn't the Secretary of the Interior go to Alaska soon after the spill to see the scope of the disaster with his own eyes? Three weeks before the spill, an Environmental Protection Agency report criticized oil companies' "careless management of chemical and oil wastes on Alaska's North Slope." The lack of a coherent plan to deal with such crises has given new meaning to the phrase, "from sea to shining...