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KULA, Hawaii -- Maui is called the "Valley Isle," but let's face it -- most tourists' topography is limited to beaches, beaches and more beaches. Maui has 81 of them. Each day thousands of visitors arrive at the airport in Kahului and fan out across the narrow isthmus with its sugar mill still belching smoke, turning right to head up to the sand strands at Kaanapali, Napili and Kapalua, or left to the golden shores of Kihei and Wailea. Most pay little more than an awed glance over their shoulders toward the cloud wrapped immensity of Haleakala, the "house of the sun," a dormant volcano rising 10,023 feet from the sea surface that makes up 75 percent of the island's surface. It's been a long time since it demanded attention -- geologists were spewed with ash and lava in the 17th century.
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TEMPE, Ariz. - Just as the UCLA basketball team could use a break, just as the Bruins could use one little gift from those oft- discussed basketball gods, Richard Kuksiks has to go ahead and foul things up. The Arizona State senior has been like a dormant Latvian volcano for much of the season, which was supposed to be his breakout year.
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Long-dormant volcano erupts; 30,000 flee TANAH KARO, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian volcano has shot black ash three miles into the air early today -- its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy.
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The mud bath has been a specialty of Indian Springs since 1871. Millions of years ago, Mt. Konocti volcano erupted about 20 miles from Calistoga. The volcano caused fissures in the earth and deposited layers of volcanic ash. The fissures allowed magma-heated water to escape as geysers, which now supply all the water needs at Indian Springs. The ash from the dormant volcano is mined on the property and is mixed with the hot mineral water to produce warm black mud. The mud increases blood circulation, exfoliates the skin and feels delicious on tense muscles. Even though the treatment is soaking in mud, I can attest to how clean, soft and relaxed I felt afterwards. Just a couple of mountain ridges away from Indian Springs in Calistoga, the warm waters of Wilbur Springs were most likely cau...
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TANAH KARO, Indonesia - Tens of thousands of people packed emergency shelters Monday after a long-dormant volcano in western Indonesia spewed clouds of hot ash and smoke more than a mile into the air. The eruption of Mount Sinabung caught scientists off guard and put the region on the highest alert level.
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Bedridden, unable to talk or even move - it doesn't sound like promising movie material, but [Julian Schnabel] has made some daring moves of his own to help us understand [Jean-Dominique Bauby]'s plight. For the first 30 minutes or so, we see everything from Bauby's very limited point of view. Colors gel into shapes as Bauby emerges from a threeweek coma; and giant faces fill the screen to explain to him what's happened. As awkward as that might sound, it's strangely riveting, at least at first. And the sense of being trapped in an isolation booth is ama liorated somewhat by the employment of voiceover narration to convey Bauby's thoughts. Surprisingly enough, he hasn't lost his wicked sense of humor, chortling at the doctor who tells him to rest for a while. Philip Seymour Hoffman and ...
... until he suddenly erupts like a long-dormant volcano. Movies rarely take on the relationship be...
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TANAH KARO, Indonesia - Tens of thousands of people packed emergency shelters Monday after a long-dormant volcano in western Indonesia spewed clouds of hot ash and smoke more than a mile into the air - an eruption that caught scientists off-guard. The eruption of Mount Sinabung put the region on the highest alert level, and some domestic flights had to be diverted because of poor visibility.
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SEATTLE - There are some rumblings now, like a dormant volcano awakening from a slumber. On Wednesday, the Mariners' Richie Sexson had two hits. On Friday, he had two more.
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AMSTERDAM - Even as Europe's dormant airports sputter back to life, prudent travelers and businessmen should ask: What if Iceland's volcano erupts again? Because it might. Over and over again, for weeks, perhaps months, scientists say.
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This summer, the world seems to have shifted off kilter. At Boomerang Creek, the screen door has developed an eerie squeak, and the lock set on the doorknob won't nest in its latch plate. In California, record-setting heat is threatening to cause rolling blackouts. In the Indian Ocean, an earthquake produced another deadly tsunami on the Indonesian island of Java, and a long-dormant volcano in the Philippines is spewing lava. And in the volatile Middle East, Beirut has exploded onto the world's radar screen. On July 12, Iranian-backed Hezbollah Shiite militia from Lebanon kidnapped two Israeli soldiers from their military post during a cross-border attack. Israel retaliated later that day by bombing targets in southern Lebanon. The next day, Israel bombed Lebanon's capital, Beirut, afte...
