Word: volcanoe
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...parents, the satellite husbands and lovers--could be found in Allen's humorless Interiors (1978). Hannah takes its sufferers seriously but not solemnly; it massages them rather than pointing a finger. Elliot may apostrophize in soppy cliches about his infatuation ("What passion today with Lee! She was like a volcano!"), but he is canny enough to woo Lee with love poems by E.E. Cummings, the thinking man's Kahlil Gibran. Mickey's belief that he has a brain tumor may lead him on quests for ultimate answers, but to him Catholicism is all Wonder bread and moving-eye portraits...
...year) and death by psychopathic sniping. Chemical leaks and chemical spills were the hottest topics. But earthquakes were not neglected, nor tornadoes and hurricanes, famine, terrorism, high-rise fires and wildfires, plane crashes, train derailments and explosions of all kinds. Fretting about an epidemic? A nearby volcano about to blow? A poisoned water supply or a building collapse or a < riot? You ought to have been in In- dianapolis. Professor E.L. Quarantelli, director of the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center, has investigated more than 450 disasters ("One loses track") and expects his work load to grow. "The future...
Some Victorian scientists viewed the discoveries as evidence of a primordial flood, possibly Noah's. A few linked extinctions to the fury of volcanoes; their conjecture was based on the extraordinary explosion in 1883 of Krakatoa, a volcano between Java and Sumatra, which darkened the skies and triggered a giant tidal wave that drowned 36,000 people...
Only infrequently in recent months have the rebels attempted large operations. One sizable attack came three weeks ago, on the slopes of the San Salvador volcano that looms over the capital. Anywhere from 100 to 400 rebels attacked a communications outpost on the mountain, inflicting seven casualties before retreating...
...thick but largely hollow, shaped like a honeycomb. The four could either be used in tandem, creating the equivalent of a gigantic 590-in. mirror, or separately. Overseas, Japanese astronomers also have their eyes on Mauna Kea; they hope to build a 295-in. telescope on the volcano by the 1990s. The European Southern Observatory, headquartered in Munich, is considering an array of four 315-in. telescopes that could, like the N.O.A.O. instrument, act in concert...