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...million-year level, he concluded in Geology that most of the dust particles were too large to have remained suspended in the air for many months. The finer particles that stayed airborne would not have blocked enough sunlight to cause mass extinctions. Pope speculates instead that soot from the worldwide conflagrations, sulfate aerosols and other impact phenomena were to blame. His findings prompted such headlines as ALVAREZ TEAM WAS WRONG and DUST DIDN'T DO IT, and heartened the relatively few scientists who still contest the Alvarez theory. Others, however, dispute Pope's analysis and say his methodology was faulty...
HANG TOGETHER IN HARD TIMES. J&R Music and Computer World in New York City would seem to have every reason to head for the hills. The 300,000-sq.-ft. retailing giant is just a block from ground zero, and was coated with soot and concrete dust from the attack. It remained closed for six weeks after the attack, but all 800 employees continued to receive full pay. Rachelle Friedman, co-chair of the 30-year-old family business, says, "Our employees are our biggest asset. They're like family." Though J&R cut prices and introduced free shipping...
...taking all the heavy soot from the boiler room, where the fire started, and cleaning the [student] rooms,” said Steve Lyndon, a supervisor at Able Restoration...
When Thea B. Johnson ’03 and her roommates returned to their room after the fire, they found all their belongings covered in soot...
After Sunday’s fire in its Grille, Eliot House has started to clean the soot and repair the fire damage, a task expected to take three weeks or more...