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...ground zero. But people living amile or so from the bomb may not be immediatelykilled. For them, the danger lies in radioactivebits of pulverized earth and buildings that fallto the ground in the hours and days following theexplosion. A fallout shelter is simply a sealedroom that has walls thick enough to block thesedangerous radioactive particles. To be federallyapproved, a shelter must be able to block out97.5% of the outside radiation...
...student, Gil, said she looked down and saw "a really thick wad of $50 bills...
...with the British Antarctic Survey, Mike Thomson is not easily impressed by icebergs. But the one that showed up in satellite photos earlier this year was the biggest he'd seen in years. Floating slowly out to sea off the Antarctic Peninsula, the frozen slab was about 600 ft. thick, 23 miles wide and 48 miles long. It was a megaberg roughly the size of Luxembourg...
This was in Clayton, one of two seats (the other is Eufaula) of Barbour County, an ordinary little county that has become nationally recognized as tort hell. The lawyer was Jere Beasley, who was once the Clayton High School quarterback and twice the lieutenant governor. Now 59 but still thick as an antebellum column in the neck, Beasley has a reputation for taking the side of ordinary folk against big corporations and bringing them to their knees, lightening their pocketbooks by the millions. Now he smiled at the prospective jurors, 100 people or so; everybody knew...
...amidst the noise, there are moments of quiet. In sharp contrast to this head-strong, full-lipped, thick-thighed woman, Souljah is at times detached and even clinical. Her father is divorced from her life in a few sentences. Disappointments are mentioned and dismissed. Intentional or not, these silences give full expression to the distrust, pain and frustration behind her attitude and hand-on-hip stance...