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...NASA scientists have another explanation. In a newly published report they note that the Yucatan rock around Chicxulub contains abundant amounts of sulfur. The blast must have vaporized the sulfur, they say, and spewed more than 100 billion tons of it into the atmosphere, where it mixed with moisture to form tiny drops of sulfuric acid. These drops created a barrier that could have reflected enough sunlight back into space to drop temperatures to near freezing, and could have remained airborne for decades. "It could have been up to a century," says Kevin Baines, an atmostpheric scientist at NASA...
...come-from-behind win on NAFTA, Clinton's advisers insist, will help prove to voters that the President has the mettle to withstand even tougher fights that loom next year. And they add that the promise of a free-trade zone from the Yukon to the Yucatan makes it easier for Clinton to force trade concessions from Japan and other Asian nations as well as press for a successful completion of the current round of talks on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade by Dec. 15. "A good GATT agreement could create 1.4 million American jobs and boost...
...Saturday night we usually go into Tampa to the best bar around," Morgan said. "It's called the Yucatan Liquor Stand. Great name...
Scientists believe this mother of all asteroids formed a crater 180 kilometers across when it struck the Yucatan Peninsula. Earthquakes occurred worldwide, and billions of tons of dust and molten rock burned up, turning the atmosphere into a furnace and setting off forest fires worldwide...
...time scientists have been moving toward the view that the extinction of the dinosaurs occurred after a giant comet or meteor struck the earth, filling the air with dust that shut out the sunlight for months. Now the theory is looking even better: a crater off the coast of Yucatan, known to be the right age (65 million years old) but thought to be too small to have been made by such a cosmic collision, has been discovered to be 185 miles across, not 110 as previously believed. The heavenly object that carved it out was plenty big enough...