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...scientists have come to see, superstitious Indian villagers have been busily offering prayers, lighting candles and staging other rituals. Their supplications are designed to keep the demon at a distance. But they are not likely to succeed. On the morning of Saturday, March 7, the sun will temporarily vanish from the skies of Oaxaca, blotted out by a total solar eclipse...
...uplifting is only temporary, he writes in Scientific American. Only tens of thousands of years ago, a fleeting moment by geological standards, the Afar triangle was partially covered with seawater. As the Red Sea continues to widen and the subsurface rumbling goes on, he says, Afar will again vanish from sight beneath the waves...
...Thomas Riha vanish-as the Colonel claims-simply to escape his troubles with a young wife? Who represented the "federal agencies" that stopped a police investigation last year? Denver District Attorney James D. McKevitt intends to find out. "This one," says the D.A. now, "is right out of Agatha Christie...
...count since Jan. 1, 1961, will pass 600,000 men and women. There have long been honest doubts about the accuracy of the body counts, and despite all the genuine efforts of the U.S. military to verify tolls and improve the accounting techniques, the doubts are not likely to vanish. The odd thing is that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong may have suffered even more heavily than the Allied tallies indicate. American figures do not include the thousands of dead enemy troops borne off the fields by their comrades, or the thousands more wounded who have later died...
Knowing exactly where they stood, the companies could say to their banks: "We are going to be compensated. Can we have money to start to diversify?" The "Snarr Plan" would cost some $500 million and offensive billboards would vanish in a few years...