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Until they can eye a volcano and declare with certainty that it is ready to burst, scientists will remember with a wince their warning nearly ten years ago about Soufri�re, a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe that began to spout a heavy plume of ash. Goaded by the geologists' alarms, authorities evacuated more than 70,000 people from the area and kept them away for 3� months. The result: the mountain continued to sputter smoke and cough volumes of ash for a while, but it never blew. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Christine Gorman/New York and Charles...
...Sometimes you’re an aproned housewife with warm cookies, sometimes you’re a boring spout of Harvard-specific procedural information, and sometimes you’re a roaming night watchman,” says Samuel T. Moulton ’01, a psychology tutor in Dunster House...
...easy potshots at Hollywood. The film's producer (Stacy Keach) is a trucking magnate who confesses he knows little about movies. Yet he's not the usual power-hungry philistine but a sensitive, level-headed decision maker. The director (Harris Yulin, as a veiled John Huston) has to spout some of Miller's windiest metaphors, but his gruff philosophizing is dead serious. The only real figures of ridicule are the pompous husband-and-wife acting coaches (modeled on Lee and Paula Strasberg) who hold Kitty in their sway. But even those caricatures (entertainingly acted by Stephen Lang and Linda Lavin...
...visas to 65 Cuban scholars heading for a conference in Las Vegas. According to Boucher, it was in the interest of the United States to suppress the free exchange of information because the “so-called academics” were mere hacks coming to “spout the party line.” As such, it was in the national interest to make sure the Cuban government would “feel the pressure of our disdain for that regime” by denying these academics “the hospitality of the United States...
...feel the pressure of our disdain for that regime,” Boucher said at the press conference. “We just felt it wasn’t appropriate for this many Cuban government officials, ‘academics,’ to come to a conference to spout party line...