Word: dust
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...shower occurs each year when Earth passes through the trail of dust that follows the Tempel-Tuttle comet. Dust from the comet, which orbits the Sun once every 33 years, passing close to the Earth, can burn through our atmosphere at speeds of 160,000 miles per hour...
...some 60 miles from the moon's south pole, excavating a hole more than 60 ft. across and sending up a plume of pulverized material about 6 miles wide. Then, about four minutes later, the second part of the craft smashed down - but not before its instruments analyzed the dust cloud to see what it was made of. (See the top 10 things you didn't know about the moon...
...tell if any of these new tactics have an impact. The partnership with the Iraqis is tentative at best. The social services don't pan out. The troops continue to patrol in humvees, as before; they are blown up by IEDs, as before. The counterinsurgency manual gathers dust on the battalion commander's desk, then disappears. But somehow ... it works. A year later, the neighborhood is markedly quieter - but it's hard to say why. (See pictures of life returning to Iraq's streets...
...commission is referred to as the KPK, on corruption charges. "We have come to show our support for the KPK and the people in their fight against corruption," says Yassin Abdullah, a student whose friends spent six days on a boat to attend the rally in the capital. "Like dust, corruption here covers everything, and even though you can't fully get rid of it you have to start sweeping it away...
...following the June 28 coup, de facto President Roberto Micheletti, observers wondered how the Obama Administration had won Micheletti's agreement. That's because the pact allowed for Zelaya to be restored to office before Honduras' Nov. 29 presidential election - a prospect Micheletti had fiercely opposed. But as the dust settles, the more common question this week is, What was Zelaya thinking when he signed this accord...