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Last week, geologists at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) announced they had recorded a "notable swarm of earthquakes under way since Dec. 26 beneath Yellowstone Lake." The strongest tremor among the hundreds in the past week measured 3.9 on Dec. 27; most of the readings above 2.8 were felt by park employees and visitors around the lake area. The activity relaxed in magnitude early this week but then flexed upward again to top 3.0 by early New Year's Eve. "This December 2008 earthquake sequence is the most intense in this area for some years," YVO reported, "and is centered...
Walking across the wind-whipped plains of the forgotten city, a young Iranian woman dressed in colorful floral garbs points out a sand-dusted tower hovering in the distance like a dormant volcano under a relentless sun. "This is where we put tens of thousands of corpses over the years," she explains with a congenial smile...
...edge swimming pool would be going there, lest we flood the otherworldly denizens picking up a prescription or delivering a motorcycle for a tune-up. We also would need to leave a section of riverbank undeveloped because a local demigod traversed the land on his daily pilgrimage to a volcano up north. My husband and I eyed each other. We'd been prepared for the Bali property market to throw up a challenge or two. But a hopping spirit metropolis and a commuting demigod weren't exactly what we had expected...
...Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. With our fan base, we have to do something we know that people are already going to be familiar with backwards and forwards. And those are movies our fans know as well as we do. We couldn't do Joe Versus the Volcano or Kramer vs. Kramer...
Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens has been known for decades as one of the most effective pork-barrel politicians in Congress. In his four decades in the Senate, he has helped funnel money to his home state for everything from volcano research to salmon fishing to the infamous "bridge to nowhere," work that has made been him beloved by his constituents but fiercely criticized by his opponents...