Word: smog
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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA/ESA/NASA/EPA Saturn's moon Titan has been shrouded in smog for eons. The HUYGENS PROBE last week pierced the veil, parachuting in for a landing. Titan's orange, rubbly terrain is like Mars', though the -178?C temperatures mean the rocks are probably made of ice. Other images showed what could be liquid ethane and methane, resembling a flash-frozen Earth before life emerged. Data still to come may shed light on how all biology came to be. - By Jeffrey Kluger...
Saturn's moon Titan has been socked in by smog for eons. The Huygens space probe last week pierced the veil, parachuting in for a landing. Titan's orange, rubbly terrain calls to mind Mars, though the -290??F temperatures mean the rocks are probably made of ice. Other images revealed what could be rivers and lakes filled with liquid ethane and methane. The chemistry resembles that of a flash-frozen Earth before life emerged. Data still to come may shed light on how all biology came to be. --By Jeffrey Kluger
...well as his midnight sense of humor, it’s vital to understand where he came from. His book jackets brusquely state that “James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948,” which he referred to as “my smog-bound fatherland.” Ellroy admitted, “I think that says...
...delirious film offers a series of vignettes in which a number of potent stars (Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Tom Waits and Iggy Pop among them), playing fictionalized versions of themselves, consume large quantities of nasty-looking java and enough smoke to put the entire nation on a Stage 3 smog alert...
...supported a 50-a-gal. gas tax. Leave aside the fact that this was not quite accurate--Kerry's support for the tax was fleeting, theoretical and a decade past--the ad was sharp, different-looking, sort of humorous. The consultants assumed it would cut through the info- smog of political-message mongering, that it would make Kerry seem laughably out of touch...