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Part of the "Ring of Fire," the string of volcanoes that encircles the Pacific Ocean, Kamchatka has more than 100 volcanoes, 29 of them active, along with spectacular concentrations of geysers and thermal springs. Nine months a year, snow blankets the peninsula, and only by July does it melt sufficiently to allow for comfortable hiking. Well, let's say relatively comfortable. During our mid-August trek, it rained half the time. Much of the interior is accessible only by helicopter, and tourists who fly into a volcanic site for an afternoon can occasionally be stranded for days...
...sophomore was at his best in the second period, when he did not allow a goal despite relentless BU pressure. The Terriers pinned Harvard in its own zone for nearly the entire frame, and only several spectacular saves by Grumet-Morris kept the sluggish Crimson close...
Murphy was spectacular through two periods, stopping 40 of 42 shots...
...fact, Rabbit appears to be the single misstep in a series of spectacular wins. A large portion of the money Li is using to build a 3G network comes from the successes of his 2G investments. Li and his team, led by group managing director Canning Fok, were the same folks who built Orange into a leading mobile carrier in the United Kingdom before unloading their 49% stake for a cool $21.5 billion in 1999. Soon thereafter, Hutchison Whampoa sold its 23% stake in U.S. wireless firm Voicestream to Deutsche Telekom for another $9 billion...
...arrest was a spectacular coup for Indonesia's much-maligned police force, particularly after they announced that Samudra had not only confessed to planning and directing the Bali bomb blasts but had also admitted to a string of other crimes, including several unsolved robberies and mysterious bombings. Indonesian authorities said the continuing roundup of Bali bombers had netted a total of seven suspects by Nov. 24, and added that they were actively seeking up to five more. They also said that Samudra had made a startling revelation: the smaller of the two bombs that exploded that night in Kuta...