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...original cause remains uncertain. In the past, scientists have speculated that it may be the work of sunspots (the magnetic storms on the face of the sun that periodically reduce its radiation) or even planetary alignments. Currently, much of the theorizing centers on El Chichon, the Mexican volcano that erupted last year and ejected huge clouds of dust into the atmosphere. By obscuring sunlight, it may have upset the planet's heat balance enough to disturb the atmosphere and oceans...
...Pope will set off on a visit to all seven countries of Central America as well as to the Caribbean nation of Haiti in an eight-day 18,000-mile journey. In many respects, the region resembles its characteristic topographic feature: Central America is a seething volcano of violence, revolution and poverty. The church there is weighted with bishops who at times have supported oppressive ruling establishments, a rank-and-file clergy that often backs revolutionary change and the threat of competition from growing Protestant evangelism...
...hill") is an architectural jewel that Historian Arnold Toynbee ranked as the equal of the Parthenon. Very little is known of the people who built and used it, or of the reasons it was permanently abandoned in 1006 after an earthquake and the eruption of the nearby Merapi volcano. Covered with some two miles of bas-reliefs that depict the life of Buddha and the sacred stories of Buddhism, Borobudur is a source of immense national pride to Indonesia, even though Islam is now the religion of more than 95% of its people...
...difficulty. Since water in the earth's atmosphere absorbs most infrared light, astronomers had to send up instrument-packed balloons and rockets, go aloft in specially equipped planes or perform infrared work in high-altitude observatories like the one atop Hawaii's 14,000-ft. Mauna Kea volcano. But thanks to some extremely innovative, indeed, out of this world, engineering, IRAS bypasses the obscuring atmosphere entirely...
...their families. Arafat caused a near riot when he visited the camp in late September. The fighters mobbed him, out of frenzied enthusiasm. The P.L.O. leadership recognizes the seriousness of the situation at places like Mashtal el Bassatin. Says an official in Damascus: "These young men are a volcano waiting to explode...