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...Bush put together a Cabinet team to study the issue. Senators Barbara Boxer and Jon Corzine are pushing a bill that would limit the amount of an employer's stock in its 401(k) plan and ease restrictions on how soon employees could sell it. Boxer only had to dust off a similar bill she proposed in 1997, when Texas retailer Color Tile went bankrupt. No one is vocally opposing the Boxer-Corzine bill--yet. "There's a lot of shrapnel up here," says a Senate staff member. "People are keeping their heads down." But businesses and their lobbyists...
Nearly all of us now know--or think we know--how the dinosaurs perished: some 65 million years ago, a giant asteroid or comet struck the earth, spewing huge amounts of dust and debris into the air. That dust, according to a widely accepted theory first proposed by Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez, was circulated by the winds and enshrouded the earth for months, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. As a result, the dinosaurs, and 70% of all other terrestrial species, were wiped...
...this scenario was rudely challenged last week by Kevin Pope, a former NASA scientist. Reviewing recent studies of atom-bomb blasts and analyses of particles in strata at the 65 million-year level, he concluded in Geology that most of the dust particles were too large to have remained suspended in the air for many months. The finer particles that stayed airborne would not have blocked enough sunlight to cause mass extinctions. Pope speculates instead that soot from the worldwide conflagrations, sulfate aerosols and other impact phenomena were to blame. His findings prompted such headlines as ALVAREZ TEAM WAS WRONG...
...belligerently patriotic Americans that want Osama’s head on a stick. Iron Flag was warmly embraced by fans, simply by virtue of its relative consistency and the absence of the earth-shatteringly whack Cappadonna. However, one thing is clear: the Wu belong in the shadowy, dust-ridden depths of the city. Without a trace of moodiness or grime, they sound sadly out of place. And though every emcee is in top form—particularly Inspectah Deck and GZA—the chemistry is gone. In the chorus to “Uzi,” the crew...
Then came Sept. 11. Rolling black clouds of smoke and dust drifted over to his neighborhood in Brooklyn. Sanders, like people everywhere else, was depressed by the attacks. His problems and successes were dwarfed by their implications. Finding work got even harder. He had a second interview for a janitor job at a Brooklyn YMCA but was finally told he was "too good for the job." "What does that mean? Was I dressed too nicely?" he says. In October he broke down crying in an elevator in Manhattan after being rejected for a messenger...