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...weeks ago, the Senate leadership announced it had decided to go the gas-bomb route, in which the entire building is sealed off and flooded with chlorine-dioxide gas. The toxic fog would seep into rugs, drapes and anywhere else anthrax may have landed--including the building's own respiratory system, its network of ventilation shafts. But gas, too, has drawbacks, including the damage it can do to artwork and furniture and the fact that it doesn't work as effectively if the temperature isn't maintained at 70[degrees]F and humidity at 50% to 70%. "Doing this...
...Thursday evening in Axis on Lansdowne Street, and as a little blue light blinked on and off and a puff of fake fog wavered in the air, the Alien Ant Farm (AAF) swarmed onto the stage. Above the heads of the crowd beneath them, an inflated condom made its way toward the door. Two girls crouched against the wall of the small room and strained to hear their cell phones. And right in the center of the floor, twelve stiff-haired young men were braced to mosh to their hearts’ content, as soon as they played, like, that...
...early days of accident investigations are full of fog and frustration - and the energy of curiosity. The current National Transportation Safety Board search for answers in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, which killed 262 people, is all of the above. Only more so. Usually some aspect of an accident "pops" early: bad weather and visibility; inoperative systems on the aircraft on the ground; a distress call from the pilots. In the case of AA 587, many experts first suspected trouble with the CF6 engines that powered the Airbus 300-600. Yet 48 hours after the accident, investigators have...
...issue is not perfect accuracy: much officially released information is as correct as it can be in the immediate fog of war. More troubling is the occasional whiff of deception, incompetence or economy with truth. Recently, U.S. officials made classic, self-defeating errors. When the Taliban produced jerky video of a helicopter undercarriage marked "Boeing," the Pentagon dismissed it, citing the Taliban?s "completely outrageous . . . outright lies" and "exaggerations." The next day, it admitted the undercarriage of a Blackhawk helicopter was ripped off flying at low level. At first, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted there was "absolutely no evidence" that...
...parting Aral. The former bustling port used to can 70 million tins of fish a year and import millions of tons of grain and coal. Now Moynaq's fleet lies beached in the desert just outside town, 100 km from the shore, its masts rusted sentinels in a fog of dust. The town is desiccated and almost deserted. The 2,000 people who remain strip the ship hulks for scrap and fish for chemically laced carp in a small, shrinking lake to the east. The population has abnormally high rates of acute respiratory infections and cancer, kidney disease, iodine deficiency...