51.   Waves the height of a two-story house crashed over a causeway and muddy ocean water swirled through an open-air seafood shack emptied of tourists.

52.   Official explanations -- some of which are contradictory -- have sent rumors, hypotheses and unofficial versions of what really happened swirling through Mexican political circles.

53.   Protests then swirled through Caracas, Maracaibo, Maracay, Valencia Barquisimeto, Ciudad Guayana and Barcelona.