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Can Lessons from Vesuvius Help Hawaii?

FIRE AND FURY

The recent discovery of a skeleton crushed under an enormous stone in Pompeii shows that not even technology can save people who are too close to deadly volcanoes.

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ROME—One can only imagine what was going through the mind of the 30-year-old man whose skeletal lower half was just found under a refrigerator-sized rock in Pompeii.

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