Word: dust
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...trash can, I assumed I would resume the mundane, insular life where I’m mildly anti-social and invariably celibate (the latter not by choice). But the rhinestone-studded tiara and the crimson-colored sash resting on my bookshelf haven’t started collecting dust just yet. Instead, they seem to pop up in every conversation I have, in newspapers and on the Internet. Sometimes I feel like my title is tattooed to my forehead as random passersby take shy peeks while whispering, “There she is. Miss Harvard...
...When the dust has settled these lucky few will walk home with some new hardware...
...Saturday evening, back inside the storm-lashed Georgia Dome, Indiana proved too deep for Oklahoma and Maryland too big for Kansas. After the dust settled, fans who were once sworn enemies morphed into instant business partners, as the winners and losers exchanged tickets and money for Monday night's final...
...Koreans call it "the gate-crasher of spring." Every year, huge storms of fine yellow sand, churned up by winds in the Gobi Desert, swirl across northeastern China and descend on the peninsula, obscuring visibility and dusting everything in yellow. Last week's storm-2002's first-was Korea's worst in at least 40 years. Dust concentrations were 20 times normal in parts of Seoul. Worse still, some scientists now fear the crud clouds are picking up toxins, such as cadmium and arsenic, as they cross China's northeastern industrial belt. The pollutant payload is small but "very, very...
Next week the Prime Minister flies to Texas for several days of talks at Bush's 650-hectare ranch in Crawford. Many sessions are expected to be one-on-one, including a dust-stirring tour lasting several hours. What to do about Saddam Hussein is the overwhelming topic. British and American officials wave off any thought that war is imminent. A Bush aide calls Crawford a "blue sky" meeting, that is, one for thinking big; a British official agrees that "this isn't a planning summit, it's an ideas summit...