Word: dusters
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...family. His father was a fighter pilot in World War II for the English, escaping his native Netherlands by stealing a small plane and simply flying to England. He later met David’s mother when recuperating from a career-ending plane crash as a crop duster pilot. She was the nurse who accidentally fell in love with him. This history, surreal as it seems, manages to captivate the reader by the poignancy with which it is drawn...
...evocative passage, David recalls when his father became a crop duster pilot...
...brought a vacuum cleaner, a duster and an ironing board to school...
...Washington the consensus was that public-health officials were equipped to handle a couple of dozen cases of anthrax spread by envelope but not a couple of million spread by a crop duster. A 1993 report by the now-defunct Congressional Office of Technology Assessment showed that a broad dispersal of anthrax spores over a major city could cause 3 million casualties. Another report estimated that a smallpox release could kill 40 million. But Bush's budget this year allocated just $345 million for bioterrorism preparedness. Congress had passed legislation asking for $1.4 billion, and now that number is considered...