Word: volcanoe
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...large, often taking up an entire page, and contain no dialogue. While even pre-literate children may be able to suss out the broad good vs. evil story, only more mature readers will recognize it as a pointed political parable. It portrays a giant rock creature, born of a volcano, awaking to a barren, grey world. Klutzy and unskilled, he takes command of a tribe of tiny laborers by virtue of his might. Still unsatisfied, he makes war on another tribe of little agrarian wood people, exploiting their forests to fill his fireplace. But this act has a costly...
...Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!" The frantic warning was radioed at precisely 8:31 a.m. on that fateful Sunday by Volcano Expert David Johnson, 30, who had climbed to a monitoring site five miles from Washington State's Mount St. Helens in the snow-capped Cascade Range, 40 miles northeast of Portland, Ore. He wanted to peer through binoculars at an ominous bulge building up below the crater, which had been rumbling and steaming for eight weeks, and report his observations to the U.S. Geological Survey. Seconds after his shouted message, a stupendous explosion of trapped gases, generating about...
Authorities have already taken safety measures in preparation for another eruption. Populated areas near the volcano were evacuated earlier this month...
...numerous onlookers have been exiled to at least a distance of 8.5 miles from the base of the volcano, and roads near Mount St. Helens are closed in anticipation of the eruption...
...least a few students from the area, the reawakening of a volcano that has been dormant for their entire lives was not a cause for alarm...