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Upon her return at approximately 8:45 p.m., the desk and floor were covered with soot and a pall of smoke hung...
...Tuskegee airmen, the U.S. Army Air Corps's first unit of African-American combat pilots. He remembers traveling in the South with his fellow airmen and being forced out of his seat and into the Negroes-only car at the front of the train, where the soot and smoke were thickest, to make room for German pows. He recalls being barred from the cafeteria at military bases, where Italian pows were served hot meals. As he tells these stories, Dryden begins to cry. "How could my country do this to me?" he asks. "It still hurts like hell...
...experts, is to cut coal's portion of the energy mix from 75% to 60% by 2010. The imperative, then, is to find cleaner, more efficient ways to burn the plentiful fossil fuel, reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur compounds and the incompletely combusted particles that form soot...
...begin with, the Chinese have mounted a successful campaign to equip major coal-burning factories and power plants with devices that wash the fuel. That has reduced the soot pouring out of the largest smokestacks but has hardly begun to clear the air. Reason: the main sources of pollution are millions of small factory boilers and household stoves burning unwashed coal. While the government hopes that as much as half the urban population can eventually be supplied with clean natural gas for cooking, rising prices and short supplies may undercut that effort...
...there every day, busload after busload, to see the evidence: the photographs taken on Aug. 6, 1945, and the days afterward; the drawings that the child survivors made to show what they had seen; the blinding thousand-sun light; the river choked with bodies; the melted clocks; the nuclear soot that fell upon the city -- "black rain." These sights are implanted in the minds of today's Japanese children as What? Warning? Against what exactly? Accusation? Against whom precisely...