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How About an Eruption With Your Dinner?

It’s Thanksgiving, here in the States, and most of us are going to end up in a food coma by sundown. In many American households, football will reign supreme.

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It's Thanksgiving, here in the States, and most of us are going to end up in a food coma by sundown. In many American households, football will reign supreme. But for those of us who would rather see a mountain blow up than a bunch of grown men in tight tights run around after a goofy-shaped blown-up ball, there's this lovely PBS documentary about Mount St. Helens, all ready for the viewing!

Enjoy!