Word: spills
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ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP Specialized nanobots dumped into an oil spill, a toxic-waste site or even a polluted stream could seek out and find dangerous molecules, remove them or change their chemical structure one by one to render them harmless--or even beneficial...
...didn't spill a goddamned thing!" Jake shouts, as he stuffs the last chunk of tomato into his mouth and high-fives Cabral...
With its vast scale, China can upset the global trading rules and security understandings that underwrite the current Western-led system. China's problems with economy, energy and the environment will be the world's problems, because if they are not taken care of, terrible consequences will spill across the map far from China. Perversely, the gap in material wealth and military technology separating China from the West is actually a source of leverage for Beijing. In the West the gap makes China look weak. But the gap actually makes China strong. China has the advantage--the underdog's advantage...
...mixture of nitric acid and alcohol was spilled in a sink at a Harvard Medical School building, causing a cloud to form in the room. The building was evacuated and an outside contractor was called in to clean the spill...
...forth from women who have lost loved ones to gun violence are deeply personal and unremittingly awful. The tears flow at press conferences and in meetings at the White House. And this Mother's Day, as moms from around the country converge on the Washington Mall, the tears will spill onto the national stage...