Word: iridium
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...HEAR ME NOW? The Iridium 9595A satellite phone works with your SIM card virtually anywhere you want to go on the globe. It's the only mobile phone that gets a signal from pole to pole...
...Sentenced. Gu Tianming, 40, medical-clinic manager; to death, for hiding radioactive material in the ceiling of his business partner's office after a dispute; in Guangzhou, China. State-run media reported that Gu planted iridium 192, taken from an industrial machine, which sickened his partner and 74 clinic staff...
...evidence from ancient lake beds in the Northeast U.S. suggests that the dinosaurs got their big break in just the same way our ancestors did. Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and their colleagues have found iridium, a mineral plentiful in asteroids, in sediment about 200 million years old--just when the dinosaurs started to take over the planet. Fossilized footprints show that the dinosaurs evolved very rapidly at that time, from the size of dogs to that of dragons. And fossils of fern spores suggest that these opportunistic plants had a sudden ecological opening for colonization...
...evidence from ancient lake beds in the Northeast U.S. suggests that the dinosaurs got their big break in the same way our ancestors did, through a cataclysm that killed off competing species. Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and their colleagues have found iridium, a mineral plentiful in asteroids, in sediment about 200 million years old. Fossilized footprints show that the dinosaurs evolved very rapidly at that time, from the size of dogs to that of dragons.And fossils of fern spores suggest that these opportunistic plants also had a sudden ecological opening for colonization...