Alan Samson, a non-fiction editor at the publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson, is pulling out the stops to publish the memoir, to be called A Spectacle of Dust, in June or July.
- The recent drought that ravaged most of the country's farmland spurred a dust storm in October that stretched across Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.
The NASA study found that several major dust storms in June and July in the Sahara desert sent dust drifting over the Atlantic Ocean and through several effects caused cooling of the waters, thus dampening the development of hurricanes.
"The Bomb" is at its dramatic and concise best in recreating the life of Oppenheimer in its first act, "Origins," but striking visual elements like the French orgy and the zombielike figures powdered in dust in the Sept. 11 scenes attest to the potent theatricality of WOW.
After the dust settled in November, they had gained 54 seats and built a machine that held the House for the next five elections.
When the dust settles in June it'll be interesting to see whether that phrase turns out to be more prophetic or pathetic.
In the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, they report that wind strength and surface dust concentration in November and December can be used to predict the rate of meningitis infection over the subsequent months.
The spine of the event is an eight-part series by Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic that will presumably lead to the creation of a "new" Marvel universe once the space dust settles in September.
ATLANTA — Imperial Sugar, the owner of a refinery near Savannah where 13 workers died in a sugar dust explosion in February, knew of safety hazards at the plant as early as 2002 but did nothing, and should pay more than $8.7 million for safety violations, the head of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Friday.
I picked the series up after the publication of Wool and Shift, and found myself counting the days until Dust came out in October.
