Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bivunde, who watched at least 40 refugees be trampled in a stampede by his home outside Goma. "This is the apocalypse." Two weeks ago Goma was a quiet place on the shores of a lovely lake, tucked amid banana groves and thick woodlands in the shadow of a spectacular volcano that lit the northern sky at night. The town was home to 80,000 residents; now it has more than a million sick and starving newcomers. Outside the airport, a sign extols The Pleasure of Traveling...
...informant is a slobbery dog (Turner & Hooch). You're the manager of a baseball team, and your players are all girls (A League of Their Own). Or your girlfriend is a fish (Splash). Your wife has died (Sleepless in Seattle). You think you're dying (Joe Versus the Volcano). You are dying (Philadelphia). Whether the dilemma is fantastic or tragic, Hanks gives it an apt, gentle heft...
...gives the municipality all the repressive power of the state," says Father Antonio Garnica Lopez. But, he wonders, if an opposition group were to take power, would it behave very differently? "The wounds are very deep, and at any moment the desire for revenge can burst out like a volcano...
...Warning: Volcano Blasting...
...survivor of a volcanic explosion that killed six scientists last year says his colleagues may not have died in vain. Analysis of data collected from the fateful eruption of the Galeras volcano in the Colombian Andes reveals patterns that may help predict precisely when an explosive volcano will erupt...