Millions of people in Asia will see the longest total solar eclipse this century on Wednesday as swaths of India and China are plunged into darkness.::::::::
Found Poem #2, by GL Rowsey:
Totality begins
at the borders of Kazakhstan,
China,
Mongolia, and Siberian Russia.
The northern
third of Mongolia
lies in the 350-kilometer-
broad path that swings northeast
through Siberia and grazes
the northernmost Chinese provinces.
Continuing out
across the East Siberian Sea,
the path ends at sunset near the North Pole.
(Solar-Eclipse Preview by Fred Espenak, on March 9, 1997)

Almost Total Solar Eclipse
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I graduated from Stanford Law School in 1966 but have never practiced. Instead, I dropped back five years and joined The Movement, but it wasn't until the 1970's that I (
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