Word: soots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PAPER does not share the N.Y. Times's commitment to covering "all the news." The standard, "totalitarian" approach to news only showers a "layer of soot" on events, Tarter said. The Phoenix is not equipped to cover all the news, anyway. But it tries to make up for this with in-depth articles which point up a particular trend or provide a historical context for the news...
During a study of air pollution in 1968, two researchers using an electron microscope at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, England spotted strange polyhedron-shaped particles, each only .00002 inches across. Uncertain whether they were looking at a new form of life or merely a speck of soot, the scientists spent a year trying to identify the airborne organisms. They enlisted the aid of a dozen outside research institutes. Last November, still unable to identify their discovery, they described it in a paper published in Nature, and asked the world's biological community to help solve...
...river is so toxic that even hardy eels have difficulty surviving. The Dutch, who live at the river's mouth, have a stoic slogan: "Holland is the rubbish bin of the world." In Sweden, when black snow fell on the province of Sma-land, authorities suspected that thick soot had wafted from across...