Word: spectacularly
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...Deogracias Bivunde, who watched at least 40 refugees be trampled in a stampede by his home outside Goma. "This is the apocalypse." Two weeks ago Goma was a quiet place on the shores of a lovely lake, tucked amid banana groves and thick woodlands in the shadow of a spectacular volcano that lit the northern sky at night. The town was home to 80,000 residents; now it has more than a million sick and starving newcomers. Outside the airport, a sign extols The Pleasure of Traveling...
...left on Jupiter -- the most prominent features ever seen on the giant planet -- and others are thronging to observatories and planetariums to see what all the fuss was about. Scientists who last week barely had time to sleep, let alone think, are finally turning their attention away from spectacular pictures and starting the long, difficult process of seeing what they can learn from the great comet crash of 1994. Says Keith Noll, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore: "We're going to be arguing over this stuff for months...
...fundamentalist group Hizballah is the likely culprit. U.S. counterterrorism specialists told TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon the evidence seems to link the bombings in Buenos Aires and Panama last week, and the assault in London this week. What's more, they told her that Hizballah began planning "something fairly spectacular" after the Hebron massacre of Palestinians by American emigrant Baruch Goldstein in March. "They need to be seen as taking revenge on the West," one of the officials told Shannon. "They perceive the United States as having more control over Israel than we have . . . And Clinton is perceived as more...
Astronomers couldn't agree, though, on how big the pieces were, and thus how explosive the impacts would actually be. Just hours before the pictures came down, Levy had tried to downplay expectations. "Even if we see nothing spectacular," he argued, "this is still a scientifically important event." But when Hammel had brought the word -- and the champagne -- Levy and the Shoemakers could barely contain themselves. Said a beaming Eugene Shoemaker: "This is just the best possible news. And remember, this isn't even the biggest piece...
...shower of debris on Jupiter, which ended at 4 p.m. EDT, prompted Net bombardment on Earth. The sites providing spectacular images of the actual collisions were some of the most popular. The Internet address at the National Space Science Data Center, for example, was hit with 5,400 accesses an hour during its peak period. Now that the Jupiter light show is history, the most trafficked locations are a lot less jammed. Reach the National Space Science Data Center at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/sl9/comet_images.html.