Word: volcano
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...balmy conditions, however, made the ice cave unstable, and doctors implored Blaine to don an emergency sweater. Reluctantly, he obliged. Skip ahead 60 hours: Blaine made his egress during a live ABC special that included quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. and beefcake shots of the mystifier atop a volcano. With cameras jostling for shots, Blaine, Rocky-style, called for his girlfriend and gave her a kiss before being whisked off in an ambulance. Houdini would have been proud. Houdini's publicist would have been prouder...
Lopes's friend Senhorinha Pires came to Cambridge 25 years ago to escape an active volcano on the Azorian island of Faial...
...Because of the volcano, the American government was receptive to allowing us to come here without documentation," Pires remembers...
Just 30 miles inland, conditions aren't quite so pleasant. The sunset is every bit as gorgeous from here, at the summit of the long-dormant volcano Mauna Kea, but temperatures hover around 38[degrees]F, with a windchill that dips well below freezing. At an altitude of nearly 14,000 ft., the atmosphere carries barely half the oxygen it does at sea level, so the slightest exertion can leave visitors gasping. Those who travel to the summit without getting properly acclimated risk altitude sickness and even death...
...WAVE OF DOOM? Earlier this month, a scientist at University College, London, raised concerns that part of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on one of the Canary Islands could fall into the ocean, creating a giant wave that would annihilate large swaths of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. "If I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the Cumbre Vieja was erupting, I would keep a very close eye on the news," said Dr. Simon...