As she was before the Great Dying, the most cataclysmic 500 years of human history ever recorded.

Recent news reports have highlighted a surge in identity theft, perhaps the most cataclysmic consequence a consumer can suffer from unauthorized disclosure of personal data.

The last time I sent any members of this crew 'on ahead' in a shuttle, it was with the best of intentions with the most cataclysmic results.

It was described as "Catastroika" and as one of the "most cataclysmic peacetime economic collapse of an industrial country in history".

"Two months after Sept. 11, one of the most cataclysmic events in our nation's history, we're dithering," Ms. Snowe said.

She was in grade school during the most cataclysmic events of the civil rights era.

I just feel awful that it took the most cataclysmic event in history to reach me.

Without question he had lived through the most cataclysmic event in history.

And we were spared what could easily have been the most cataclysmic mistake in the history of our people.

But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known.