Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...additional 45 minutes pass, then shouts erupt. Necks crane toward a small, bright cloud that has formed in a virtually cloudless sky. Video cameras whir, and Polaroids spit out pictures. People whisper about the experience they have just shared. The announcer declares, "The Virgin Mary will now bless us." Arms extend portraits of Jesus, crucifixes and other % icons for blessing. Then Fowler steps onto the porch to relay Mary's words: "Pray and sacrifice, please...
...Society held in Phoenix, Arizona, a team of scientists reported that the dark equivalent of 20 trillion suns lies hidden in a small group of galaxies located millions of light-years from earth. They based their calculation on the recent detection by the Rosat X-ray satellite of a cloud of hot gas that suffuses a seemingly empty region between two of the galaxies. The gas molecules are moving at such high velocities, explains Richard Mushotzky of NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center, that a "cloud like this would have dissipated into space long ago, leaving nothing...
Over the next four years, a 1.3-m telescope on Mount Stromlo, in Australia, mounted with sophisticated digital cameras, will methodically search for MACHOs by peering at stars in the nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. If MACHOs exist, explains physicist Christopher Stubbs of the University of California at Santa Barbara, who helped design the experiment, they should occasionally pass between the earth and these background stars. Because gravity bends light, the MACHOs would act as lenses, causing the stars temporarily to brighten enough for the cameras to detect...
Nowhere is pollution more palpable than in Mexico City. When the wind is still, the fumes of 3 million cars and 35,000 industrial sites become trapped by the high ring of mountains that surrounds the city. Last February a cloud of smog pushed ozone readings above 0.35 parts per million on some days, severe enough to harm even healthy people and four times the level considered safe under, say, California law. In recent years Mexico City has started to shut down polluting factories, introduce lead-free fuels, get rid of diesel- powered buses, mandate emission controls on new cars...
...they knew of the searches as they were occurring and did nothing to stop them. DiGenova must determine whether the Bush staff members in fact lied to State Department Inspector General Sherman Funk or violated Clinton's privacy with leaks. Regardless of the outcome, the tawdry passport affair will cloud Bush's last days, and perhaps someone's future...