Word: sanding
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...sheets on the front of race-car windshields, which crews can quickly tear off each time oil or grit obstructs the driver's view. Similar Mylar sheets are now used on Black Hawk helicopters, whose windshields in the past had to be routinely replaced after getting pitted by desert sand. A set of layered sheets, which costs $1,100, is a lot cheaper than the $15,000 windshields. Could an invasion of flashy logos be far behind...
DIAGNOSED. UNNAMED INDONESIAN, 17, with a mysterious lung infection; after she inhaled saltwater, sand and mud during last December's tsunami; in Indonesia. The teenager's ailment, identified in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is thought to be caused by ingestion of bacteria in saltwater and mud. Dubbed "tsunami lung," it can quickly spread to the brain, causing abscesses and possible paralysis. Although the authors of the study say the disease may be widespread, the World Health Organization believes cases are rare. The study did not name the teenager, who has recovered from the illness...
...gray mud pockmarked with the jutting remains of houses, automobiles, trees and sometimes dead bodies. The government planned to have the Roman Catholic Church declare the area a "holy ground," meaning that more than 20,000 corpses would probably remain forever entombed under the hardening mass of volcanic ash, sand and clay. Health Minister Rafael de Zubiria expressed concern over potential outbreaks of disease, though he emphasized that there was no sign of epidemics...
...indeed a gamble. In the last seconds before the encounter, Giotto ran into what one scientist described as a "wall of dust the size of grains of sand." The spacecraft's protective dust shields were peppered with particles at a rate of 100 impacts a second, a bombardment that swung its antenna out of alignment with a tracking station in Australia. That brought communications to a halt. But before the blackout, Giotto relayed more than 2,000 images of Halley's back to earth, plus a torrent of data from the ten on-board instruments...
...again at the boat's waterline and in a jaunty lick or two of carmine reflection--that at first one does not mark the skill that went into it, the power of epigrammatic observation implicit in Homer's ability to convey the milky blue water over a Florida sand bottom in two washes of cerulean and cobalt. One knows how little time it took to see and how little to do; but one senses the years of self-critical practice behind it. No wonder Homer is the despair of every amateur. --By Robert Hughes