Word: volcano
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...America I grew up in is extinct. I was raised in the Atlantis of the '50s, in the time before time, in a flickering, black-and-white Pleistocene. A volcano erupted and destroyed the Eisenhower era. It lies under the ocean...
Javanese rulers have long gazed upon an eruption of Mount Merapi as an omen of troubled times ahead. So when the central Java volcano began sputtering and oozing lava early last week, many Indonesians recognized a portent of ill tidings for President Abdurrahman Wahid, the nearly blind 60-year-old Muslim cleric who has fitfully governed the country for the past 15 months...
...DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Still Not Safe Aid agencies began distributing food in the stricken city of Goma after residents returned to the area despite threats of a second volcanic eruption. Molten lava from the Nyiragongo volcano claimed at least 100 lives, including 50 killed in an explosion at a petrol station, and destroyed more than 1,500 homes. The U.N. says half a million people will need ongoing humanitarian assistance or relocation...
...population did not begin to grow until a volcano erupted on the Azorian island of Faiail in 1957, says Joseph A. Cerqueira, a Cambridge resident who arrived from Portugal...
...volcano, the American government opened immigration up to the Portuguese, Cerqueira says...