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...have forced the autocratic powers to eat dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: May 8, 2006 | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...inspector averages four to five routine inspections each day.The Square fares no better or worse than other areas, according to Sullivan. “It all depends on what’s going on in the area,” she says, adding that construction can cause excess dust near a restaurant, and that passers-by have been known to throw personal garbage in some restaurants’ dumpsters. Inspectional services will search through trash bins for clues to the owner of the stray garbage, Sullivan says with a chuckle. ”With gloves,” she adds...

Author: By Rebecca L. Ledford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Policing Your Plates | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

Will a 10,000-foot cloud of dust from a massive bomb spread radioactive particles across the West? It sounds like a nightmare scenario from the 1950s. But that?s the question a U.S. district court in Las Vegas will seek to resolve next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fallout Before a Bomb Test | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. "The concern of downwind communities is ?Here we go again,?" said plaintiff Stephen Erickson of the Salt Lake City-based Citizens Education Project. Though not a nuclear test, Erickson is afraid the huge blast "could kick up radioactive dust from previous nuclear testing," and claims "the Pentagon has sprung it on everybody with no examination of its effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fallout Before a Bomb Test | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...ventral tailfin, which would have interfered with extending his tail landing skids. He zeroed in on the lake bed, cutting his air speed from 285 m.p.h. to 185 with three nose-up "porpoising" maneuvers. The X-15 touched effortlessly onto the lake bed, slid 4,600 ft. to a dust-raising stop. Said Test Pilot Crossfield, father of five: "I hope all my landings are as nice as that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Flight of the X- 1 5 | 4/21/2006 | See Source »

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