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...Medellin cartel has not yet renounced the drug trade, but it does claim it is getting out of a subsidiary business: murder. The narcotics ring announced last week that it was ending its terrorist campaign, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of judges, journalists, police officers and other government officials during the past seven years. "We have decided to dismantle our entire military organization," said the cartel...
There is a moralistic streak in Tsongas. His speeches are apt to include denunciations against those "who ought to be ashamed of themselves." In conversation, his comments, no matter how calmly uttered, can have a know-it- all ring. He is sometimes referred to behind his back as St. Paul. Still, he does not close off argument and is willing to change his mind. Unlike most Democrats, he supports nuclear power. His conversion occurred after experts convinced him of the lasting, dire effects of oil and coal on the environment...
Both Pinatubo and Unzen lie along the infamous Ring of Fire, a crescent of volcanic activity that runs around the rim of the Pacific Ocean through the edges of Asia, North America and South America. Washington's Mount St. Helens, which exploded spectacularly in 1980, is part of the ring. It contains three- quarters of the earth's 540 historically active volcanoes. Since such mountains are erupting in one place or another almost all the time, it is merely a coincidence that Pinatubo and Unzen are exploding simultaneously...
...volcanoes clustered along the Ring of Fire are more dangerous. The ring traces a geologically active zone where sections of the earth's crust, known as plates, are colliding. Generally the weaker oceanic plates are forced beneath the thicker continental slabs. The friction of grinding rock, combined with heat welling up from the earth's interior, transmutes the lower edge of the oceanic plate into magma. Thick with silica, this type of magma tends to solidify near the surface, forming domes and plugs that seal off the channels through which the magma rises. Such blockages turn a volcano into...
...needed Helen Gahagan Douglas, the cloth coat, the Checkers speech, the 1960 defeat -- and maybe even Watergate. It is not the desire to scale great heights that gets Nixon up in the morning and sends him to his New Jersey office, where he waits for the phone to ring and tries to peddle op-ed pieces on geopolitics; it is the need to claw his way out of a dark hole of his own digging...