Word: dust
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Alaa, Raya and others in Stockholm now wonder when they will be able to return. Raya, who spread sheets over her furniture to keep off the dust, now says that she doubts she will see her Baghdad home for several years. She plans to learn Swedish and practice as a gynecologist. For his part, Alaa, hunched over a borrowed computer in his small apartment, spends hours a day looking at digital photographs of his small son playing on his bed back in Iraq. Alaa hopes to get his Swedish residence papers sometime this year, allowing his wife and 1-year...
YEVGENY VDOVIN, acting governor of Russia's Omsk region, about oily, rotten-smelling, orange-yellow snow falling in the Siberian industrial area, which officials attributed not to pollution but to dust storms in neighboring Kazakhstan...
...chased between Chicago and Indianapolis. In Chicago, Cary does suave, urbane things like thwart the bad guys at a high-rent art auction; in Indiana he gets attacked by a crop duster in a scene that makes the rural fields I used to run in look like a benighted dust bowl. Frank Sinatra sang about Chicago's Union Stockyards - but never about the Indianapolis stockyards I worked at in the summers with my grandfather...
...story building where women prisoners were housed. The guard took me to a cell, then pushed the bolt back with a loud clang. I looked around the room, and my heart sank. Cobwebs dangled from the ceiling; the once whitewashed walls were yellow with age and streaked with dust. The single naked bulb was coated with grime and extremely dim. Patches of the cement floor were black with dampness. A strong musty smell pervaded the air. I hastened to open the only small window, with its rust-pitted iron bars. When I succeeded in pulling the knob and the window...
...make more than a mere dent, its proposals must be brought to fruition. We hope that the Faculty, the new president, and the new dean of the Faculty will fast-track the implementation of pedagogical reforms proposed by the Task Force rather than leaving the report to collect dust next to similar reports that have preceded it.The report correctly identifies Harvard’s pedagogical gap and faults institutional priorities rather than individual practices. A university that verbally expounds the merits of teaching but only rewards achievement in this area with a smattering of prizes and awards can never...