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...blast, particularly to the region's ecological balance, can yet be calculated. For example, the eruption killed a million fingerlings (baby fish) in a hatchery at Toutle, and there were fears that ash on the leaves of plants would interfere with photosynthesis, the process by which plants turn sunlight into nutrients...
Oppressive heat. Scalding sunlight. Not a whisper of a breeze. The place is a vacation resort near Marrakesh in Morocco, but the guests' garden patio might almost be a military compound under siege. Its protective wall is topped with shards of implanted glass and barbed wire. Palm fronds are silhouettes against an implacably blue sky, and in the distance one hears the eerie, insinuative call of the muezzin, summoning the faithful of Islam to prayer...
...race in less than three-and-a-half hours); the police had to escort away pedestrians who simply refused to move. One group of students roared in triumphant cheer the Notre Dame fight song. Families set up picnic lunches on the sidewalk outside Lord and Taylor to catch the sunlight. Other spectators waited along the finish line to cheer on the marathoners for more than three hours after Bill Rodgers, the winner, came...
...steps through the sunlight, and then into the McDonalds, where the LaRouche press secretary agrees to talk huddled in the gloom over a cup of coffee. Ted Andromidas is tired, and a little bitter. "We know the election is in the can--bought, rigged and paid for," he says. But there's a little fight left in him. "Kennedy is one of the most immoral scum ever to hit the country... Brown's not even a flake--he's organized crime. Reagan's a nice uninformed old man. Bush, Anderson--these guys are Trilateral Commission all the way." Andromidas lives...
...small and tranquil study down the hall from the Oval Office, a black loose-leaf notebook takes up a proud place on a bookshelf that is crowded from end to end with epics of man's struggles through wars, pestilence and economic disaster. The notebook is warmed by sunlight and caressed by piped-in Brahms. That is fitting. Within the notebook's 111 tidy pages, divided by ten pink tabs, is a fantasy that needs sunbursts and violins...