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Physics Professor Gerald Gabrielse’s trip to north of the Arctic Circle in Finland to give the opening talk of a conference placed him “right in the path of the unexpected volcanic dust from Iceland,” he wrote in an e-mail to his quantum mechanics class...
...took a 4 hour bus ride followed by a 12-hour, all-night train ride to get to Helsinki when my first flight was cancelled,” Gabrielse wrote. “However, the dust came roughly at the same speed and the Helsinki airport [was] closed...
...craziness in Mather yesterday night didn’t end right there: a second fire alarm went off soon after in Mather at 12:05 am, possibly connected to a discharged fire extinguisher found on the third floor of the B-entryway stairwell. A fine, white dust filled the air in the stairwell...
...Rules of Engagement Senjaray is a warren of mud walls and unpaved streets, dust and more dust, shaped like a hornet's nest hanging from the branch of a tree. The branch is the Afghan Ring Road, a two-lane paved highway. The U.S. fort is located just north of the highway; the Taliban control the land to the south, a lush farming area, irrigated by water from the Arghandab River. The dividing line is a canal that runs along the southern border of the town; the Pir Mohammed School sits on the banks of both that canal...
...When I heard that my magazine was banned, I thought that it had died. I thought that its body was corrupted, like a human being, adding dust to dust,” says Iranian writer and editor Shahriar Mandanipour in reference to the censorship he experienced in his home country. “This event, the Living Magazine, I thought, could wake it up from its grave, like Lazarus, even if for one night...