Word: impactful
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...dinosaurs? Scientists have been debating that one for a long time. They know that 65 million years ago, a large object, five or six miles across, blasted a 120-mile-wide crater at the tip of what today is Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They also know that the impact, or more accurately, the worldwide, sunlight-blocking shroud of dust it kicked up, wiped out some 70% of the earth's plant and animal species--including the dinosaurs. But what, precisely, was the object that sealed their fate...
...into a guard shack at an entrance to the Borden Chemicals and Plastics plant. "The fog was so dense I couldn't see the road," one driver told him. A plant safety officer had notified authorities about the chemical release, but had assured them "there was no off-site impact." By then, Johnson recalled, "there was a fog as far as the eye could...
Similar DNA tests, as the world now knows, established that the youngest of Hemings' sons, Eston, was Jefferson's child. Yet amid the intense debate about Jefferson that this discovery has caused, more interesting may be its impact on the Hemings clan itself. The descendants of the two Hemings sons whose link to Jefferson could not be established--Thomas and Madison--regard themselves as black but have long assumed that Jefferson is their ancestor. Yet the descendants of Eston, the son proved almost conclusively to be a child of Jefferson and Hemings, see themselves as white and for generations...
...historical artifacts of the 20th century were the 11 Boy Scout handbooks--issued from 1910 to last week--it would be remembered as an era in which the square knot retained its central importance. Chivalry, woodcraft and "duck-on-a-rock," on the other hand, made way for low-impact camping, Internet etiquette and self-defense from sexual abuse. The new book is printed in color on recycled paper, and it, alas, no longer offers such wise saws as "all trainers know that smoking is bad for the wind...
...through big retailers and drug companies. Wal-Mart and Walgreens, for example, sell a lot of natural products. Among drug companies, American Home Products, Warner Lambert and Bayer AG have been aggressive. But the overall sales of these large companies overwhelm those of their natural products, so the impact is minimal. Take Wal-Mart: it sold about $500 million of natural products last year, but that pales next to total sales of $105 billion...