Word: fallouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nerve agent atomized in the allied strikes rose in a huge thermal plume that became stuck behind a stationary weather front. He argues that this invisible cloud drifted south over the entire theater, gently sprinkling the soldiers with a poisonous rain. The Pentagon has disputed his theory, arguing any fallout was too low to harm U.S. troops. But some outsiders ask how the Pentagon can reach that conclusion when it concedes it doesn't know the minimal amounts required for such poisons to cause long-term damage...
...fallout from September's miniwar between Israelis and Palestinians continues. Israeli intelligence reports that Yasser Arafat's security forces, worried about another armed confrontation, are working around the clock to obtain an arsenal of antitank and antiaircraft missiles--weapons they are forbidden to have under the Oslo accords. The arms would give Palestinian forces a more credible response to the tanks and attack helicopters that the Israeli army deployed last time. Palestinian security officials deny any official involvement in weapons smuggling but acknowledge that their forces already possess dozens of LAW antitank missiles confiscated from or donated by local Islamic...
Penn and Schoen began polling to gauge the fallout from the Morris debacle and discovered that there wasn't any. In fact, 37% of voters said the scandal made them more likely to vote for Clinton. The pollsters could offer no explanation of why this should be so. When Penn reported it at the meeting, Gore looked over at the couch where Penn and Schoen were sitting. "If things get tight," he said with a smile, "one of y'all's gonna have to go next...
...rock stars have fretted more about the fallout of such instant success than Adam Duritz, the Crows' lead singer and chief songwriter. "I couldn't go out. I couldn't go to bars. Everybody had to give their opinion of me," he recalls. Once, he says, "for seven days in a row, someone walked up to me on the street and said something shitty. Just out of the blue, people I didn't know. 'Hey--are you Adam Duritz?' 'Yeah.' 'You're in Counting Crows?' 'Yeah.' 'Man, you ought to be counting your blessings. You guys suck...
...taken movies of hot gas streaming into space from a magnetic belt girdling the sun. And the Polar Satellite, so-called because it passes over the North Pole, recently snapped the clearest pictures ever seen of the aurora borealis, the shimmering curtains of light that are the visible fallout from space storms...