Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the sunken, multistory bunkers, equipped with electric lights, TV, foam-rubber mattresses and even disposable plastic mess gear, life becomes a routine of sitting out one artillery barrage after another. Dust blows off the dunes in gagging flurries and the heat is stifling, but the bunkers are relatively safe. The tanklike forts are topped with such a sturdy mixture of sand, concrete, timber and steel rails ripped up from the trans-Sinai line that even accurate salvos send little more than tremors below. The Suez defenders, who call themselves "moles," pass the hours in the cramped forts cleaning their...
...chaos: "Bodies of victims are being buried in trenches-not in coffins, for none can be obtained, but wrapped in blankets, and many children in old newspapers. Survivors wander around in a daze, like sleepwalkers, looking for food and water. Many children were choked to death by the dust that hung over the city. All we have is thirst, hunger, the stench of dead bodies and despair...
...complex molecules in interstellar space: water, ammonia, formaldehyde and pairs of hydrogen and oxygen atoms that are ingredients of many other chemical combinations. Now the list has been further expanded. Researchers at the Bell Telephone Labs have detected large quantities of carbon monoxide in vast clouds of gas and dust in the Milky...
...Nebular Dust. Actually, that business has a promising future. Besides illuminating the complex mechanisms of stellar evolution and the building of elements, it could yield important clues to the origin of the universe. By measuring the effect on interstellar molecules of the so-called background radiation* (believed to be the faint remnant of the "big bang" that, according to one theory, created the universe), astronomers may learn more about the primordial explosion. Most intriguing of all, the molecules could provide tantalizing evidence of lifebuilding far from earth...
...discovery of complex interstellar molecules, astronomers were convinced that ultraviolet radiation and cosmic rays would quickly disintegrate any stray organic molecules that might form in deep space. Now they know that such molecules-which are essential to terrestrial life-can survive between the stars, apparently shielded by nebular dust. Indeed, Radio Astronomer David Buhl, one of those who found formaldehyde last year, thinks that organic molecules exist in considerable abundance in interstellar space. If so, he says, "life similar to ours" may well have evolved elsewhere among the 100 billion stars of the Milky...