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Mount Merapi Finishes Nap, Shoots Ash Cloud Into Sky

MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia – Mount Merapi shot a large cloud of searing hot ash and gas into the sky Wednesday, ending two days of relative calm and underscoring the dangers still facing thousands of people living on the volcano’s slopes. Witnesses said the eruption appeared to be smaller than the …

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World's Largest Plane Lands in Britain

LONDON – The world’s biggest passenger airliner landed for the first time at Europe’s busiest airport Thursday, for tests to see if London Heathrow is ready for the Airbus A380. “It is clearly quite a momentous day in U.K. aviation history,” BAA Heathrow managing director Tony Douglas said just before …

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Internet Jukeboxes Take a Leap Into the Digital Age

BOSTON – The Sevens, a beer-and-wine tavern with an oak bar worn smooth by decades of drinkers, has two amenities that set it apart: a real cork dart board, and arguably one of the best jukeboxes east of the Mississippi River. From early Bruce Springsteen and Patsy Cline to rare …

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