Word: dust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...certainly looked that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was Cyclone Larry--a Category 4 storm with wind bursts that reached 125 m.p.h.--exploded through northeastern Australia. It certainly looked that way last year as curtains of fire and dust turned the skies of Indonesia orange, thanks to drought-fueled blazes sweeping the island nation. It certainly looks that way as sections of ice the size of small states calve from the disintegrating Arctic and Antarctic. And it certainly looks that way as the sodden wreckage of New Orleans continues to molder, while the waters of the Atlantic...
...could offer one piece of advice to the class of 2010, it would be this: take your science and math classes early. The longer your TI-86 is left to gather dust in your bottom desk drawer, the more difficult those problem sets and midterms will be. Oh, and don’t be fooled by the Cores with cushy-sounding names...
...that America is ready to spend on foreign battlegrounds, tax cuts for successful middle-aged professionals, and benefits for powerful interest groups, but not for the generations being raised today. The federal myopia of not finding new sources of revenue condemns young people’s interests to the dust. Just think of the utter failure of the No Child Left Behind program. The ceiling has been raised now, but not for America’s youth. If there is someone who needs Oprah’s Debt Diet, it is the men and women running our country. That?...
...with severe disease, it can be extremely frustrating. My hope is that we can develop methods that will ultimately cure this disease.” Umetsu is already studying ways to prevent NKT cells from causing asthma. Asthma attacks are caused by immune system cells overreacting to relatively benign dust, smoke, or other irritants, restricting breathing in the process. According to results of the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the frequency of NKT cells in asthmatic patients is roughly a 100 times that found in non-asthmatics. Students afflicted with asthma cheered the advance...
...urgency of the narrative seems completely lost. Even the resurgence around 1998’s “Hello Nasty” is curt and obtuse. There is no sense that in the Beasties’ decision to found a record label or work with pioneering samplers the Dust Brothers matters as much as their collaborations with Run-D.M.C. in the late 80s, even though the former choices had much more visible impact than the latter...