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...everything went according to the terrorists' plan, radiation could begin spewing into the nighttime sky within 20 minutes, says Lochbaum, now a nuclear-safety engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nuclear-watchdog group. The lethal plume, drifting hundreds of miles downwind, could kill tens of thousands within a year and hundreds of thousands eventually...
...Thursday night at the Firstie Club, West Point's campus bar for seniors, and the cadets' dress code is college casual. For once, the shoes aren't shiny, nobody's wearing a hat with a plume. Instead, they're in flip-flops, board shorts or jeans, baseball hats or visors, bead necklaces purchased on spring break. But still they give themselves away at every turn. They're like undercover cops infiltrating a frat party. Their shoulders are a bit too square. They don't slouch. They plow efficiently through dishes of peanuts, eyes darting about the room, scanning for friends...
...member of “Billionaires for Bush”—his organizational nom de plume is “Seymour Benjamins”—Skomarovsky has come under fire from liberals and conservatives alike who could not stomach his actions at the event. In a letter to the Crimson, Skomarovsky asserted all excretions landed in a plastic bag and “not a molecule of stomach content ended up anywhere else.” For this article, however, Skomarovsky failed to project any information or gastric juices—despite FM?...
Until they can eye a volcano and declare with certainty that it is ready to burst, scientists will remember with a wince their warning nearly ten years ago about Soufrire, a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe that began to spout a heavy plume of ash. Goaded by the geologists' alarms, authorities evacuated more than 70,000 people from the area and kept them away for 3 months. The result: the mountain continued to sputter smoke and cough volumes of ash for a while, but it never blew. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Christine Gorman/New York and Charles...
...itself by Irish assassins of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. But even that crisis was solved after Prime Minister Lloyd George discovered that in the Irish tongue there is no word for "Republic." Created was a Saorstat ("Free State") which Englishmen can think of as a "dominion" while Irishmen plume themselves on the dignity of President Eamon de Valera who refuses to attend the Silver Jubilee next week and insists that Free Staters are "not British subjects...