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...thin layer of iridium in the earth's sediment dating to about the time of the die-off. Iridium is rare on Earth but common in asteroids. The iridium layer, mapped by the Alvarezes in scattered sites around the world, suggested an asteroid that vaporized on impact, spreading a cloud throughout the stratosphere. The argument seemed sealed in the 1990s, when geologists realized that a huge crater centered near Chicxulub, Mexico, was almost certainly caused by a giant impact at just the time the extinctions occurred...
...since its landmark creation, many critics say the IG system has never been in more dire need of reform as it is under the Bush Administration. An unusually high number of Bush IGs, such as Janet Rehnquist at Health and Human Services, have been forced to resign under a cloud as a result of bipartisan pressure, often because of bald incompetence or gross interference with the IG mission. At the same time, a number of good IGs have felt undermined or even been forced out by their political superiors after uncovering major problems; Clark Kent Irvin, for one, encountered resistance...
...original version of this article incorrectly included former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz as one of the number of Bush administration IGs who "have been forced to resign under a cloud as a result of bipartisan pressure, often because of bald incompetence or gross interference with the IG mission." While at least one Democrat and one Republican senator were raising questions about Schmitz's job performance at the time of his resignation in September of 2005, Schmitz had in fact conveyed to the Secretary of Defense his decision to step down a year before. Moreover in October...
...future of the university is increasingly under a cloud if it’s possible for people who are not part of the community of discourse...to suppress views with which they disagree,” he said. “We’re concerned in general about what seems to be a tendency for external individuals and groups to intervene to seek to squash views with which they disagree...
...Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square is enough to test anyone's sense of humor. But when the meeting's fourth day dawned to blue skies and sunshine, one Beijinger, who didn't want his name used for obvious reasons, joked that the absence of the dirty gray cloud of polluted mist that typically hangs over the city must have been organized for the meeting: "They'll use it for the Olympics. It's special technology with Chinese characteristics like the stuff they use to keep the leaders' hair black...