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While nothing is unusual outside the mammoth white facade, bright yellow signs posted on the walls and ceilings warn visitors that workers are currently removing insulation sprayed with asbestos...
Research has shown that breathing asbestos-tainted air may cause cancer. As part of the "mammoth project," the ceiling and insulation must be removed and the concrete scrubbed to make sure all particles are gone...
...think that is going to be a shame," says Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan about the two different sites. "I would prefer it all to be in one space, but that would require a mammoth building...
...without telling anybody? President Clinton -- and most of Congress -- want to know. A day after Clinton declassified information on the spy agency's half-completed complex, he told CIA Director James Woolsey and Pentagon officials to figure out why Congress wasn't told about the project's scope and mammoth budget. BTW: If built, the building would house the shadowy National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees spy satellites, and would be one-fifth as big as the Pentagon...
Imagine that one of Shoemaker-Levy 9's bigger pieces -- a mile or two in diameter -- is streaking in at 130,000 m.p.h., except that the target is not Jupiter but Earth. The mammoth chunk of rock and ice tears through the atmosphere and smashes into the ground with the force of 6 million H-bombs, gouging out a crater the size of Rhode Island and throwing so much pulverized real estate into the stratosphere that the sun is blocked for months and Earth goes into a worldwide deep freeze. If the comet hits an ocean, a pall of dust...