Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Furthermore, the announcement that fiberglass may be the culprit, caused some surprise because at te time the rashes broke out, the office itself seemed to be free of contaminator, office workers said. Whether fiberglass dust may circulate invisibly in the air was not immediately clear...
...Voyager probes to Saturn and beyond were "as exciting as the discoveries made in the age of Columbus," declares Sagan. The observation of huge dust clouds on Mars set scientists to wondering what would happen to the earth's atmosphere if the sky filled with smoke and ashes from cities burning during a nuclear war. The answer was the chilling vision of a "nuclear winter" that would blot out the sun and end life on earth. Unmanned satellites help verify arms-control treaties, map ocean currents and weather patterns, even locate mineral deposits...
Even while supply planes raise huge clouds of dust in the bleak landscape, small groups of skeletal figures continue to make long, hobbling journeys to the relief camps. Most of them are little more than bones covered with skin, their faces reduced to huge-eyed skulls. By night, when the temperature can drop into the 40s, they huddle close together in their foxholes; by day, they sit in tiny squatting areas marked off by stones, their meager possessions arranged around them. When shipments of food arrive, local officials, armed with long staves, round up survivors and hand...
Though the cement dust has barely settled on what will be the lobby of the new Charles Hotel, its developers raised their glasses there last week to celebrate the January opening of Harvard Square's latest addition...
...single man, solitary on stage, stands staring through a piece of rectangular plastic, a small, open circle rounded by red at its center. He falls backward, rigid, his body hitting the ground so hard it raises clouds of dust and makes a sound like a dull detonation. A siren starts to shriek. It could be a warning, or a summons...