Word: dust
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...massive pile of gravel. From the summit, a lifeless brown wasteland stretches to the horizon, like a scene from a science-fiction movie. Mountains of mine tailings, some as tall as 13-story buildings, others as wide as four football fields, loom over streets, homes, churches and schools. Dust, laced with lead, cadmium and other poisonous metals, blows off the man-made hills and 800 acres of dry settling ponds. "It gets in your teeth," says Sparkman, head of a local citizens' group. "It cakes in your ears and hair. It's like we've been environmentally raped...
...Dust To Dust France closed its last remaining coal mine, bringing an end to the nearly 300-year-old industry. Nuclear power provides the country with 80% of its energy needs...
...occasionally there are signs that Sonia may share some of the crowd's feelings. In four long, hot days of campaigning, she visibly relaxes only once?when she calls a sudden unscheduled halt in the middle of a dust-bowl plain and strides out to where she has spied a group of female nomads under a tent of sticks and black plastic. The women have only the faintest idea of who she is. Sonia cannot understand their dialect. And the photographers, trailing far behind, cannot hope to capture this briefest of off-guard moments. But away from the crowds...
...research, presented at an American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology meeting, showed that whatever protection pets provide babies is erased if their parents smoke. Children who had two or more dogs or cats before they were 1 year old were 70% less likely to be allergic to ragweed, dust mites and cat and dog allergens by age 7, but that benefit disappeared if they were exposed as infants to cigarette smoke. "What I find most striking is that it appears that this exposure to cigarette smoke is altering the development of the immune system," says lead researcher Dr. Dennis...
...dust settles on what may only be the first phase of the battle of Fallujah, the emerging picture holds telling clues on the prospects for the U.S. mission in Iraq. Much has clearly gone badly wrong in what the U.S. military had announced would be a precise, targeted operation to capture or kill the men responsible for a grisly attack two weeks ago on four U.S. private security men. Five days of fighting between Marines and insurgents holed up in the town has left some 600 Iraqis dead, according to local hospitals. And U.S. spokesman have reported that around...