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According to Renne, these traps (from trappa, the Swedish word for stairs) are composed mainly of glassy basalt, laid down by huge rivers of flowing lava. But amid the basalt, which extends across an area of a million square miles, scientists have also found telltale pieces of tuff, a type of rock indicative of powerful explosions. What this means, says Renne, is that the volcanoes could have easily hurled sulfur dioxide and other gases high enough into the atmosphere to block sunlight and cause substantial cooling. And if the earth cooled enough--locking up more and more water in polar...
Eguro, a chemistry concentrators, will play the lead female role in the upcoming Shapiro entertainment film "Tuff and Dudley...
...LABEL: TUFF GONG/ISLAND...
...police pushed the crowd back with nightsticks, some demonstrators fought with the officers. Snowballs thrown by people in the crowd broke two windows, sending pieces of glass into the building's lobby. During one scuffle, an officer pulled a tuff of hair out of a man's scalp and dropped it on the ground. Another man pushed the officer and was promptly arrested...
...your phone number dull, uninspiring and difficult for friends to remember? Maybe you would get more calls if you changed your lifeless digits to whiz- kid, tuff-guy or BUCKS-UP. Several local telephone companies plan as early as October to start offering personalized numbers to consumers, a service they have long made available to business customers. Taking note of the boom in vanity license plates, companies like New York Telephone believe they could entice hundreds of thousands of customers to pay extra for the numbers. Pacific Bell estimates it would impose a $10 changeover fee and a $1.50 monthly...