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...save lives, 90 scientists from around the world gathered for a U.N.-sponsored conference in the southwestern Colombian city of Pasto. New techniques for detecting pre- eruption changes in the composition of vented gases had shown theoretical promise, and the scientists hoped to test them on Galeras, an active volcano several miles to the west that had not erupted since July 1992. Once again though, the insights of science were employed too late to be effective...
PREDICTING VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IS A NOTORIOUSLY inexact science, and no one knows that better than people along the "ring of fire" that extends through Southeast Asia. Without warning last week the Philippines' Mayon volcano blew up, killing at least 68 and driving thousands from their homes...
Rymer cautions that gravity data should be used only with more conventional forecasting methods. Moreover, the technique can be dangerous, since researchers often climb into a volcano to take gravity readings. Last month Rymer's colleague Geoff Brown died when Colombia's Galeras volcano blew just as he was setting up his equipment...
FORGET ABOUT WHETHER AN ERRANT COMET, ANGRY volcano or invidious virus killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Scientists have still not explained how the Saurian dynasty got started or why it dominated the earth for more than 150 million years. The discovery in northwestern Argentina of the fossilized skeleton of a 10-kg (22-lb.) carnivore that is 230 million years old may help paleontologists begin to solve the mystery. In the British journal Nature, researchers from the University of Chicago and the National University of San Juan, Argentina, report that the dog-size predator is the most primitive...
Like Rachmaninov, the stubborn composer who used 19th-century models for his music, Sontag is a willful anachronism and has never been accepted by critics and academics. Unlike Rachmaninov, however, it is doubtful that Sontag's Volcano Lover Work will be embraced by the general public. Now the novelty, the taboo topics have vanished from Sontag's art; a shadow of the pioneer of the '60s has settled into his book...