Weather control on trial sparks hopeful and wary debate
In 1946 a lab snowstorm led to cloud seeding experiments using dry ice and silver iodide aimed at making rain or snow. Proponents claim potential drought relief and hail suppression, while skeptics urge caution as evidence remains inconclusive. An Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Tucson with IAP funding will study radar echoes and cloud behavior with military and academic partners.
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Nature
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IAP
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Ariz
University of Arizona
University of Chicago
Sloan Foundation of New York
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State Insurance Boss Orders Takeover of NM Assets
District Judge David Carmody ordered Ralph Apodaca to seize the New Mexico assets of General American Casualty Co now in receivership in Texas. The firm held the State Highway Department fleet policy untilNM cancelled it two days before receivership.
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Ralph Apodaca
New Mexico
General American Casualty Co
Texas
State Highway Department
NAACP Head Stands Against Trifling With Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall says the NAACP will go to court against local school boards balking at the high court's 1954 school desegregation ruling. He arrived for the national convention in Dallas with 700 delegates to map strategy on transportation and housing besides education.
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Former Russian officer details mass deportations on TV
Lt. Col. Grigori Burlitski testified before a U S congressional committee in Munich about Soviet deportations of non-Russian groups including Chechens Ingush and Tatars He described deception, forced relocations to Siberia and killings as part of terror to crush independence movements He stressed that education remains his priority.
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Crimea
Siberia
Saqqara Sarcophagus Open Yet Real Pharaoh Tomb Hoped
Archeologist Zakaria Goneim, who uncovered the Saqqara sarcophagus May 31, says the find is symbolic and a genuine tomb may lie deeper within the pyramid. The Education Ministry confirmed the chamber was empty and ordered a pause in work south of Cairo until late fall.
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Columbia Colonel Wins Double USAF Rocketry Honors
Col Dean Davenport of Columbia South Carolina received two awards at the first USAF air to air rocketry competition. He earned top individual award and his unit Air Command top team performers. A separate note mentions archaeologist Goneim hoping to uncover a royal tomb inside a gold ornate sarcophagus of Ankhet a third dynasty monarch around 2750 BCE.
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