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...vents. Williams and Menyailov, who had taught himself English by listening to Elvis Presley records, had been friends since they first met in 1982 on a volcano watch in Nicaragua. "Igor was excited because he was using a new device," Williams recalled last week from a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. "He was smoking a cigarette, and he was all happy." Andrew McFarlane, of Florida International University, had just taken a snapshot of the two men when, without the slightest warning, the ground heaved and the mountain erupted...
...worst-afflicted area is the San Joaquin's Kern County, which has reported nearly 2,000 cases since October. Valley fever is also on the rise in the Tucson and Phoenix areas, where reported cases jumped from 287 in 1991 to 438 last year. But statistics tell just part of the story: only about 10% of those infected ever come to a doctor's attention. The rest have either no noticeable symptoms or mild cases that they mistake for a cold or flu. Though . valley fever, which has been known for a hundred years, has received scant attention outside...
...finding announced last week can only encourage such searches, for it supports the growing conviction that dark matter exists in astonishing abundance. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society held in Phoenix, Arizona, a team of scientists reported that the dark equivalent of 20 trillion suns lies hidden in a small group of galaxies located millions of light-years from earth. They based their calculation on the recent detection by the Rosat X-ray satellite of a cloud of hot gas that suffuses a seemingly empty region between two of the galaxies. The gas molecules are moving at such...
...last week, Schwenk said, he has taken out ads in the New York Post, the Boston Phoenix, the Chicago Reader, as well as in The Crimson...
THEY OUGHT TO CHANGE THE COMPANY'S name to Phoenix. Orion Pictures has risen from the ashes of its bankruptcy to release a few good movies. The first is LOVE FIELD, a slim but affecting drama named for the Dallas airport where John F. Kennedy's plane landed on Nov. 22, 1963. Michelle Pfeiffer, glitzed up and dumbed down, is a restless housewife who vows to attend the President's funeral in Washington; Dennis Haysbert is the mysterious black man she tries to befriend. Director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, Heart Like a Wheel) has the gifts of finding verve...