Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tabloid industry flourishes on tales of celebrity transgressions. D.C. Comics killed Superman because D.C. Comics executives knew that if the Man of Steel bit the dust, Americans would buy the comic book...
...dust-borne fungus causes misery in California...
These impacts blasted enough dust into the atmosphere to shroud the entire globe for months on end, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. In the cold and dark, plants and animals perished. Compelling evidence of such cataclysms was revealed last summer: scientists confirmed that a giant crater, 176 km (110 miles) across, discovered under the northern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was the likely impact point of a huge object, probably a comet, believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other forms of life 65 million years...
...Bakersfield, California, after being plagued by asthma attacks during her six years in Hawaii. A few months later, Crown, 35, was suffering from severe headaches, a prolonged fever of 102 degreesF, swollen feet and painful bumps on her hands and legs. The diagnosis: "valley fever," or coccidioidomycosis, a dust-borne disease caused by the microscopic spores of a fungus, Coccidioides immitis...
...design a vaccine have yet to succeed. The fungus multiplies dramatically whenever the soil becomes damp after a protracted dry spell. Swept into the air by winds, construction equipment, even the passing feet of farm workers, the spores can travel up to hundreds of miles on the surface of dust particles. Central California's six-year drought, which has been interspersed with warm, heavy rains, as well as the region's construction boom, provided the ideal conditions for fungal proliferation...