Word: volcano
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SCIENCE How to spot a volcano -- before it blows...
...scientists hope to foretell most major eruptions, and their record is increasingly impressive. Since 1980, Mount St. Helens has erupted 22 times, and 19 of those episodes were predicted by U.S. Geological Survey volcanologists at the Cascades Volcano Observatory, in Vancouver, Wash. Warnings have also preceded eruptions of Alaska's Redoubt Volcano, which roared to life...
William James said, "Evil is a disease." But it can be an atrocious liberation, like the cap flying off a volcano. The mind bursts forth to explore the black possibilities. Vietnam taught many Americans about evil. Hasan i Sabbah, founder of a warrior cult of Ismailis in the 11th century in Persia, gave this instruction: "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." It is a modern thought that both charmed and horrified William Burroughs, the novelist and drug addict who like many in the 20th century somehow could not keep away from horror. During a drunken party in Mexico...
...generous, and aid-giving countries have notably eased some disasters. Andrew Natsios, director of foreign disaster assistance for the U.S. Agency for International Development, says as many as 350,000 Bangladeshis were saved this time, thanks to a U.S.-built cyclone-warning system. Natsios also points to U.S.-supplied volcano and earthquake monitors and a Chilean tidal-wave-alert network. With satellite analysis of African vegetation, he adds, Washington pre-positioned 30,000 tons of supplies before the famine last year in the Sudan...
...itself into categories of Old Paradigm and New Paradigm. The 1990s have become a transforming boundary between one age and another, between a scheme of things that has disintegrated and another that is taking shape. A millennium is coming, a cosmic divide. The 20th century is an almost extinct volcano; the 21st is an embryo...