Word: sun
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...which the major cities of the Northern Hemisphere have been consumed. This thick veil of soot and dust slowly circulates through various layers of the atmosphere, blanketing entire continents, creating a world of frigid darkness. As ground temperatures plummet by as much as 40° F and the sun is obscured, crops in Iowa, Nebraska and the Ukraine in the Soviet Union perish...
Neither computers nor scientists on either side of the argument have yet been able to answer the major questions about conditions following a nuclear attack: How high would a column of smoke rise from an urban obliteration? How much smoke would fall back to earth? Would the sun cause smoke plumes to heat up and rise higher into the stratosphere? How many megatons would have to be detonated in order to trigger nuclear winter? To get some answers, several federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Energy, the NOAA, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency are about to launch...
Even so, there seemed to be no motion anywhere. There was a lifeless quiet, and it felt cold even though the sun was shining. It was impossible to escape from death and misery. Little children with haunted, running, swollen eyes told of scampering through the night, with no particular destination, knowing only that the gas was among them and would kill. They asked the soldiers where they could find their parents. The soldiers replied, "Wait here. A truck will be along and take you to the hospital. Everyone will be there. You will find Mummy and Daddy." The frightened children...
Dermatologists are among those not buying. The new goos may give smoother shaves, they concede, and they actively approve skin treatments with sun blocks, to head off wrinkles. But doctors say the moisturizers, tighteners and abrasive scrubs make little discernible difference. "It's more hope than help," says Beverly Hills Dermatologist Arnold Klein. "Most products will do only one thing: make the people who manufacture them wealthy...
Here is the 23-year-old star as Adam, alternately impudent and bored in The Creation of the World; here is the sinuous Pedro Romero, the bullfighter of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises; here is the classic, vaulting Pan, making the kind of leaps that remain incredible, even when they are frozen on the page and documented by the author. Alovert's text is eloquent, but nothing can match her photographic chronicle; this is the kind of history that is, in the best sense, revealing...