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MEXICO CITY - Mexico's giant Popocatepetl volcano may generate lava flows, explosions of "growing intensity" and ash that could reach miles away, the National Center for Disaster Prevention said Monday. Officials were preparing evacuation routes and shelters for thousands of people who live in the shadow of Popocatepetl, located 40 miles southeast of Mexico City. Officials have created a 7.5-mile restricted zone around the cone of the volcano. Popo, as the volcano is known, has displayed a "notable increase in activity levels" in the last few days, including tremors and explosive eruptions, according to a statement from the federal government.

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Rickie Fowler and the Masters clash. Let us count the ways. First, there is the color thing. Masters green has a pureness that presents a cooling combination of grass and lime. Fowler green, a shirt-and-pants outfit he wore during the first round here Thursday, is a jarring tone of faded emerald overdosed in yellow. Reports that headache pills were handed out in his gallery proved to be unfounded. Then, there is Masters golf and Fowler golf. The Masters is best handled, and usually won, by those who adhere to the cliches.

Psomi & Alati's yellow split pea puree with deep-fried capers Total time: 1 hour, 20 minutes Servings: 8 to 10 meze portions Caramelized onions 4 1/2 tablespoons olive oil 4 large red onions, peeled and sliced Scant 1 teaspoon sugar 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar Salt 1. In a large, heavy skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat until the oil is hot, then add the onions and...

Sometimes sweet, sometimes scary, sometimes sour, "Oz the Great and Powerful" is a film that doesn't know its own mind. A partially effective jumble whose elements clash rather than cohere, this solid but not spectacular effort stubbornly refuses to catch fire until it's almost too late. As directed by Sam Raimi, who departed from his horror film roots ("The Evil Dead") to turn out the high-grossing, family-friendly "Spider-Man" trilogy, "Oz" exhibits some of the same tonal duality that marks its maker's career.

Re "Splitting Seconds Is Not Catching Scofflaws; It's Harassing Motorists," letter June 8: Perhaps if letter writer Gordon Smith chose to observe the yellow light as time to think about stopping rather than time to speed up, he might not have to be concerned about being ticketed. Then the rest of us who stop in time can rest a little easier when he is around. Duane Craven Huntington Beach

Re "West Hollywood to Ask Judge to Uphold Tickets Issued by Cameras," June 12: One-tenth of a second. Is that the issue? More and more motorists are speeding through yellow lights, sometimes not completely before the red. I thought yellow means get ready to stop Eugene Strull Los Angeles

Seventeen hundred 20-foot iron stakes in the ground might be heroic. Painted yellow and topped with large yellow umbrellas, they are pure whimsy. As I looked, I thought that there should be leprechauns. Then I saw groups of people resting under each of the umbrellas. I know that Christo had made leprechauns of us all. ELDEN HUGHES Whittier

Garden flower: In a June 6 Home section photo caption accompanying an article on Randy Bergman's low-water garden in Cheviot Hills, a yellow flower was incorrectly identified as leptospermum. The plant was leucospermum.

If the game of politics they play in Washington were the game of football, there'd be yellow flags thrown all over the field! RUSS CONNORS Pismo Beach

I was disappointed not to see Frank Gehry's Team Disneyland building in "L.A.: Gehry's Laboratory," by James Verini (Sept. 11). Easy to recognize while traveling on the 5 freeway near Disneyland, this long, low building is covered in shimmering, colorful stainless steel panels that vary in color from yellow to deep purple depending on the sun's angle. A glimpse at the other side reveals bright yellow stucco, curvilinear shapes. Douglas Gardner Los Angeles

There's close to 40 years' worth of symmetry on "Old Yellow Moon," the new album from longtime friends and country-rock trailblazers Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. Though it's taken until now for them to make their first full album as duet partners, the singers started out as a couple of unknowns who came together in the vibrant music scene of 1970s Los Angeles. "At one point it was just me and Rodney - two lead singers and two rhythm guitar players - sitting on the floor working up things like 'Sweet Dreams' and all these country songs, waiting for the band to show up," Harris, 65, said recently over lunch in Los Angeles with Crowell.

Apple will come out with its next iPhone this summer and make it available in multiple colors as well as with different screen sizes, an analyst said Wednesday. Topeka Capital Markets' Brian White said he expects Apple to launch the next-generation iPhone, which many believe will be called the iPhone 5S, in May or June, according to BGR. In addition to the current black and white options, White said he expects the new iPhone to come in pink, yellow and blue. White also said he expects the Apple smartphone to offer multiple screen sizes, though he did not specify the sizes.

EL PASO - USC waited two years for a chance to play in a bowl game. But based on the Trojans' performance against Georgia Tech on Monday in the Sun Bowl, it might have been wise to have postponed it another year. Georgia Tech, which needed an NCAA waiver to play in a bowl, defeated USC , 21-7, sending the Trojans to their fifth loss in six games and a 7-6 finish. TIMELINE: College football 2012-13 bowl schedule It was, perhaps, an appropriate end to a lost season that began with the Trojans ranked No. 1. On a chilly, windy day, Georgia Tech held USC to its fewest points of the season and turned up the heat on Trojans Coach Lane Kiffin.

EL PASO - Paul Johnson likes to keep it simple, at least on the surface. Georgia Tech's coach has run the same basic offense for nearly three decades, tinkering here, adding a few wrinkles there, though never straying far from the principles of an attack that annually produces some of the top rushing yardage totals in college football. Johnson calls it a spread option, but it includes elements of the triple option, double wing, the wing T and wishbone, morphing into what some dub the flexbone.

The Yellow Birds A Novel Kevin Powers Little Brown: 230 pp., $24.99 Pvt. John Bartle, the narrator of Kevin Powers' sorrowful war novel "The Yellow Birds," is a man of reason caught between the uncontrolled emotions of two men. The first is his sergeant, a severe gunslinger and molder of warriors named Sterling. Sgt. Sterling's discipline and his rage against the enemy are keeping his squad of men alive as they patrol an eerie, death-filled Iraqi landscape. Pvt. Bartle loves and hates him for this.

NEW DELHI - Adding to the litany of issues besetting neighboring nuclear rivals China and India, ranging from border disputes to the Dalai Lama to trade deficits, is a new one: UFOs. "Over 100 UFOs seen along China border," said a headline in Tuesday's Times of India. Indian troops guarding the often-tense 2,100-mile border between the two Asian giants say the objects seen in recent months are yellow spheres that appear to lift off from the Chinese side, slowly traversing the sky for three to five hours before disappearing.

When I'm watching golf on TV, most of the time it's difficult to see where the cup is located. Why can't they superimpose a small white ring around the cup, similar to showing the yellow line in football? And while they're at it, have the TV stations use a large yellow dot to show exactly where the ball is in flight. JOE LYOU Santa Paula

With the legal challenges of red-light camera citations, let's explore alternative measures. With allegations that financial gain, rather than saving lives, was the driving force for installing these devices, let's consider increasing the yellow light timing. In Fairfax, Va., they increased the yellow light timing from 4 to 5.5 seconds, resulting in a 96% drop in citations at a red light-enforced location. Violations dropped from a daily average of 52 to 2. At the intersection of Grand Avenue and Mission Bay Drive in San Diego, the yellow light timing was increased from 3 to 4.7 seconds, resulting in a 90% decline in citations.

Now that Lance Armstrong has been about as thoroughly disgraced as possible, one of the big questions confronting his onetime avid fans is: What should happen to those 80 million or so bright-yellow Livestrong wristbands? It's not as inconsequential a question as it first appears, as I was reminded over the weekend when a Facebook friend posted about his internal struggle over the silicone-gel bracelet that had been resting on the top of his bureau for several days. Though the bracelet was seen in its earliest days as a symbol of support for Armstrong the champion bicyclist and survivor of cancer, it took on greater meaning as more and more people who hadn't touched a bike since childhood bought their own -- and other charities followed the fashion trend with their own rubbery wrist decorations.

Is Los Angeles the most penalized city in the United States? In college football it is. UCLA is the third-most penalized team (in penalty yards) among the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools. USC is sixth. The Bruins are dinged at the rate of 86.5 yards per game and the Trojans at 80.0. The problem has been costly to UCLA, which had 99 yards in penalties during a 43-17 loss to California on Saturday. Bruins Coach Jim Mora said the penalties “affected us more Saturday.” But he added, “I think there's a distinction between discipline and penalties.” He went on to say, “penalties, some of them the other day, can certainly be seen as a lack of focus.” But, he said, “some of the penalties are a function of a good player that got one on you so you react and grab and hold.” There is no distinction, though, in consequences.