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...luck. This week, scientists in the area got one step closer to launching what could be the world's most advanced experiment in rainmaking - or, as it's known in weather circles, cloud seeding. It's the practice of injecting clouds with a foreign substance, usually silver iodide, salt or dry ice, to make the the cloud's water or ice particles bigger and yield more rain. The technique has been used in different parts of the world for more than 60 years, with varying success. But the improvement of weather technology - and an enduring human interest in trying...
...article suggested that the believers in the Lal Masjid compound are victims and not common thugs. It is clear that they will not be happy until they force their beliefs on all of Pakistan. They would be committing more crimes if they weren't under siege. Scot Westwood, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH...
...only area in which Americans need to change their ways. Individuals as well as the government are spending beyond their means. Americans became net borrowers, not net savers, in 2005-something not seen since the Great Depression. If Indians and Chinese can earn $5,000 a year and salt away $1,500, Americans earning $40,000 a year should be able to save at least that much each year-but they don't. Sometimes it is easier to put things in perspective from the other side of the world. "It is not the best feeling in the world to know...
...group of health advocates, all because he wanted to say thank you to the people who had helped him. "We grew up hard, had nothing," he said, slim as a stick, with thick brown hair combed straight back from a well-worn face that's anchored by a salt-and-pepper goatee. "But what these people done for me made me feel like a whole different person...
...Once inside the metal gate, we suck lungfuls of air through wetted rags. Young girls pass bowls of salt. Eating salt lessens the effects of the tear gas, they say, with an air of practiced impatience. This is the second time the madrasah students have been tear-gassed; they know what to do. The afternoon call to prayer echoes through the halls, barely audible above the wails of women hurt by burns, tear-gas inhalation and, in one case, bullets. Dozens of hands push cups of water on me, conscientious, even in the middle of mayhem, about the foreigner...