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...then smuggled via Central Asia or Pakistan to the West, where Afghan hash finds many eager buyers. But as dope smokers celebrate the new "enlightened" view of pot, any thought of the distant, parched land where it is grown has been lost in the haze. Back in the dust-bowl fields around Mazar, the growing foreign demand and new freedom to exploit it translate into a rare chance at riches. While prices are minimal compared with the eventual $3,000 to $8,000 a kilo that Afghan hash fetches in the West, Northern Alliance commander Akbar Khan says farming anything...
...Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was filmed. Staying at the only available “hotel” (a run-down pub known affectionately to the bushie locals as “Mario’s Palace”) and working in 100-degree temperatures in a dust bowl, the stylist still managed to look as calm, collected and—most impressively—clean as she had back at air-conditioned HQ. Suffice it to say that by contrast everyone else on the shoot looked like extras in Gladiator...
...wouldn't have been the first time Earth's climate was altered by a large incoming object. Thirty million years earlier, the impact of the asteroid believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs enshrouded the Earth in dust that blocked sunlight and caused temperatures to fall. But that shroud dissipated, possibly in a matter of months, and the climate quickly warmed up again. Whatever caused the Eocene cooling must have lingered much longer...
Using a computerized climate model, the scientists calculated the consequences. "Like the rings of Saturn," suggests Boslough, "this ring cast a shadow over the tropics, drastically affecting the global climate." And unlike the dinosaurs' dust shroud, he says, the Eocene ring and its shadow persisted until the orbiting chunks were slowed by the upper fringes of the atmosphere, then finally dropped back to Earth. --By Leon Jaroff
...criterion is that if a bike is loaded with dust or the chain is rusted solid, then I cut it off and get rid of it,” says Coveney, who cut about 10 bikes off the Lowell racks prior to school opening...