Word: cloud
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...same time. Tuite's correlation of the detections and of satellite weather photographs taken at the time suggests that the tons of nerve agent atomized in the allied strikes rose in a huge thermal plume that became stuck behind a stationary weather front. He argues that this invisible cloud drifted south over the entire theater, gently sprinkling the soldiers with a poisonous rain. The Pentagon has disputed his theory, arguing any fallout was too low to harm U.S. troops. But some outsiders ask how the Pentagon can reach that conclusion when it concedes it doesn't know the minimal amounts...
...biochemists hypothesized that the same reaction might occur in the bodies of people suffering from diabetes, as excess glucose combined with proteins in the course of metabolism. When sugars and proteins bond, they attract other proteins, which form a sticky, weblike network that could stiffen joints, block arteries and cloud clear tissues like the lens of the eye, leading to cataracts. Since diabetics suffer from all these ailments, the biochemists guessed they were right...
...just doesn't get harder than that. After a season embedded in a cloud of "what ifs" and "almosts", the Crimson was given a final dagger in the heart by losing its final game, 12-11, with no time remaining on the clock in overtime of the deciding match of the Ivy League Championships...
...Jewell while also pursuing other leads. Among the early allegations cited in government documents are the following: Jewell wondered aloud whether the tower he was guarding could withstand a bomb blast; a neighbor at Jewell's country cabin said he had heard a loud explosion, seen a large cloud of smoke rising from the woods and then seen Jewell at the edge of the woods, looking "very nervous"; Jewell had told co-workers, "You better take a picture of me now because I'm going to be famous"; Jewell, as a deputy sheriff in Habersham County, owned an olive-drab...
Smith suffered a narrow loss in a January special election to fill the vacant Senate seat of Bob Packwood, who left under a cloud of scandal. In this bitter race, Smith has accused Tom Bruggere of hiring a San Francisco private-investigation firm to "dig dirt." Smith has tempered some of his more conservative positions for this race, but in a state that has elected moderate Senators for the past 30 years, the winner here should still be a moderating influence on Capitol Hill...