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...highly scenic source of a creek that fed the Toutle River. Now the valley through which the Toutle flowed is blocked by a 600-ft.-tall wall of volcanic mud and debris. The lake has been slowly filling with dirty water, threatening to overflow eventually and send a torrent of mud downstream...
Last summer China's central Hubei province suffered weeks of torrential rains that led to the worst flooding the country has seen in 26 years. While giant dikes held back the main torrent of the mighty Yangtze River, 142 branch levees burst, spilling water over the low, rice-growing terrain, affecting some 6.2 million peasant families. Says one observer of the disaster area: "Much of the land is covered by silt and debris, and can't be cultivated. There are villages where absolutely everything has been swept away." Though a cleanup is well under way, tens of thousands...
...where meat pastries are sold, one Saturday morning. The waitress, a tiny old woman in her sixties, asked us where we were from. "U.S.A.," said one of us. She didn't understand. "U.S.A.," we repeated. Still no connection. "America," we added. "Oh, Good Lord!" The woman exploded into a torrent of questions, assurances, promises, and encouragements. "We're just ordinary people. We're all just people. We want peace. Everyone wants peace. You want peace, too, don't you? Sure you do. We're good Soviet people, just like...
...with the world's eyes trained on Iran, Afghanistan and Ronald Reagan, the war song is returning to album-sides and radio stations in a torrent as remarkable for its suddenness as for its size. There's been no similar topical fascination in rock music since the Beatles set off the psychedelic-drug-song craze in 1967. Listen to the titles: "Generals and Majors" (XTC), "World War" (The Cure), "Cold War" (Devo), "Battleground" (Joe Jackson), "Life During Wartime" (Talking Heads). There are songs about war in the Middle East, songs about nuclear war, political songs against war, jingoist songs...
That freedom could be savored for only a moment. After a journey to meet with Asian mystics in India and Ceylon, death came in Bangkok, where Merton, padding about in his room, was electrocuted by a faulty fan. The words- and they were a torrent within that vow of silence - are undying...