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...world without nuclear weapons. Soldiers were gassed and machine-gunned by the hundreds of thousands in the trenches of World War I, when Hitler was just another corporal in the Kaiser's army. By World War II, countries on both sides of the war used airplanes and artillery to rain death on battlefields as well as cities, until the number killed around the world was so huge that the best estimates of the total number lost diverge by some 16 million souls. The dead numbered 62 million or 78 million - somewhere in there...
...minutes and repeats the process about three times. Then he tests the grave to make sure that the stone can “breathe,” which means that it will be able to release the pollutants that may seep into it due to acid rain and smog...
...weekend full of wild weather, it wasn’t rain that stopped the Harvard sailing team?...
...were sailing on the Charles, so it was conditions we’re used to seeing in practice, which probably gave us somewhat of a local advantage,” Lambert said. “The rain just meant that we had to wear more clothing and be wet—it didn’t really affect sailing too much...
...Saturday was really rainy, and the rain has a tendency to kill off the breeze a little bit—it was lighter than it would have been otherwise,” Santangelo said. “It was shifty because it was coming off all the buildings in Boston, and it was hard to predict the wind shifts...