Word: dust
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...delays in the audio. We were stepping on each other's lines," says Markel, who demands strong communication and teamwork among his brokers in far-flung cities like Richmond, Va.; Toronto; Paris; and Sydney, Australia. Soon his employees were back on airplanes, and the expensive video hookups started gathering dust. So after the terror attacks last September, when travel delays were eating up the time of his employees, Markel thought videoconferencing would be a short-term solution at best. But he attended a demonstration of new equipment, tried it out and was so impressed that...
...subtle, resilient language in the 1998 Good Friday agreement which has kept that government afloat through many storms. So why, when a group of veteran Belfast politicians held forth at the World Economic Forum in New York last week, didn't he leave the graybeards in the dust? He was perfectly competent, sometimes eloquent. But he didn't light up the room - which is not good news for the cause of moderate nationalism he leads, already suffering at the polls...
...really knows what we have at stake,” Krimsky says. “We don’t want to have [radiation] in the air, we don’t want to have it in dust particles, we don’t want it blown over Agassiz school...
Nearly all of us now know--or think we know--how the dinosaurs perished: some 65 million years ago, a giant asteroid or comet struck the earth, spewing huge amounts of dust and debris into the air. That dust, according to a widely accepted theory first proposed by Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez, was circulated by the winds and enshrouded the earth for months, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. As a result, the dinosaurs, and 70% of all other terrestrial species, were wiped...
...this scenario was rudely challenged last week by Kevin Pope, a former NASA scientist. Reviewing recent studies of atom-bomb blasts and analyses of particles in strata at the 65 million-year level, he concluded in Geology that most of the dust particles were too large to have remained suspended in the air for many months. The finer particles that stayed airborne would not have blocked enough sunlight to cause mass extinctions. Pope speculates instead that soot from the worldwide conflagrations, sulfate aerosols and other impact phenomena were to blame. His findings prompted such headlines as ALVAREZ TEAM WAS WRONG...