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...SAMPLING Air sucked through special filters will capture lots of desert dust and maybe small amounts of chemical, biological or radioactive material. U.N. teams will also use swipes and handheld detectors...
...ball has been overthrown, but this is where free-body diagrams seem to fail. Projectile A shifts into another gear and—with a body control that defies physics—extends fully to catch the ball over his shoulder while leaving the Penn cornerback in the dust...
...dust clears from the Senate vote creating a Cabinet-level Homeland Security Department, Tom Ridge is poised to take on one of the most critical and politically risky jobs in Washington's history - and to head up the second largest federal agency after the Pentagon. Despite his new clout, the department will take months, if not years, to create - time that critics say the country just doesn't have. For his role at the center of this sweeping reorganization of the federal bureaucracy, the former Pennsylvania governor is our Person of the Week...
...Even as the dapper Swedish diplomat was beginning his meetings with Iraqi officials at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday morning, the vacuum cleaners were blasting into action on the third floor of the former Canal Hotel, now the UN headquarters in Iraq. So thick was the layer of dust, one inspections official told me, that the rodents who had taken up temporary residence in the offices left tracks. "It is quite eerie to walk through there," says the official. "It is like a time capsule. You can tell that the inspectors left in a hurry. There's a tool...
...Leonid shower occurs each November when the Earth’s orbit passes through the trail of dust left by comet Tempel-Tuttle, which swings around the sun once every 33 years. The dust grains, traveling at 158,000 miles per hour, glow and vaporize as friction heats them up in the upper atmosphere and produces streaks of light...