Word: volcanoes
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Disaster movies are our millennial No plays, totally stylized, totally predictable, but comforting in their familiarity. Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive...
...dinosaurs began dying off, scientists hope that they will help provide clues to what caused the extinction. Because many of the eggs were found in clusters of four to ten, scientists think they may be the same age. Analysis may help settle whether a cataclysmic event such as a volcano or a large asteroid caused the extinction, but results will not be known for at least six months. The scientists were tipped off to the find by Vikas Amte, a local doctor. Regardless of whether the eggs hold the answer or not, Amte said the area where they were found...
MOVIES . . . . DANTE'S PEAK: "Disaster movies are our millennial No plays, totally stylized, totally predictable, but comforting in their familiarity," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive." Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people...
...Even as he enjoys the success of Independence Day, Chernin is concerned that so many of the summer's hits were driven by special effects. Next summer will bring even more. "You're looking at the Batman sequel, the Jurassic Park sequel, Starship Troopers, Speed 2, Titanic and two volcano movies," he says. Such pictures routinely cost $100 million or more to make even without major stars...
...Geographic Society. It helped pay for the expedition that found her, high up in the Peruvian Andes. The body screamed "human sacrifice" from the start. Earthen tomb. Religious offerings--statuettes, coca leaves, corn. Typical sacrifice MO for the Inca, which is what she was. The location fits too: a volcano called Ampato. The Inca worshipped it as a god. Funny thing is, it was Ampato's eruption in 1995 that melted the glacier. Almost as if the god wanted to come clean about its guilty past...