Word: windstorms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panels of reveling pundits discussing whether they're having fun yet. Or how about tuning in to some Extreme Reveling? Jon Krakauer Presents: America's Most Dangerous Galas. Experience, from the safety of your own La-Z-Boy, just how dangerous an unfurled noisemaker can be in a violent windstorm at 75[degrees] below zero...
...accident occurred March 5 when the clapper snapped off from its counter-weight and pierced a cornice of the steeple during a windstorm...
Tehran is taking its political jeopardy seriously. Most Iranians are Shi'ite, and they watched with growing disquiet as the puritanical Sunnis of the Taliban swept across Afghanistan like a fierce windstorm. The Taliban's faithful regard all Shi'ites as heretics who face possible persecution for their minority beliefs. Tehran officials charge that the Taliban gives Islam a bad name, but they mainly resent its challenge to Iran's claim to Muslim supremacy. "Iran is looked on as the godfather of Shi'ites everywhere," says Olivier Roy, a French expert on the region. "If the Iranians do nothing, they...
...down fuel is turning to unstable dust. Contaminated objects are being smuggled out of the poorly guarded 1,092-sq.-mi. exclusion zone. Birds fly into the sarcophagus through holes as big as a garage door; rats breed in the ruin. The structure is so unsteady that a strong windstorm could smash it, sending a plume of radioactive dust into the atmosphere. "Nothing is being done to clean it up," says Alex Sich, an American engineer who has studied the Chernobyl site...
...Harvard Outing Club members were rescued Sunday after an unexpected windstorm trapped them for three days in New Hampshire's White Mountains, club members said yesterday...