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It turns out that the manufacturer of a dirty bomb will probably be killed long before he gets a chance to detonate it. This means that a dirty bomb may be more of a threat than a reality.

Getting the radioactive material together and making it into a bomb is a lethal occupation. To make an effective bomb, you need a lot of radioactive material. This means you need to shield it so it doesn?t kill you first. But a shield that would protect you against enough radioactive material to make an effective bomb would be too heavy to move, so you would have to detonate the bomb at the same place you built it. If a bomb maker didn?t use a shield, it would mean almost instant death from radiation poisoning.
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One of the most frequent questions we?re asked is, ?What?s that wonderful Dreamland theme song and where can I get it?? It?s ?The O of Pleasure? by Ray Lynch, and it?s available in ?The Best of Ray Lynch? CD, on sale in our website music store. Now we have 4 more Ray Lynch CDs for sale, and we?ve reduced the price of ?The Best of Ray Lynch.? We’ve got the best prices on the internet.

The new CDs are: ?Deep Breakfast? (which also contains the Dreamland theme), ?Nothing Above My Shoulders But the Evening,? ?No Blue Thing,? and ?The Sky of Mind.? You can listen to excerpts from each of these beautiful recordings by clicking on our website music store.

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The U.S. federal government is gathering the world’s top scientists together in September for a strategy conference to plan defenses against an attack that could wipe out an American city or disrupt the whole country’s infrastructure?and it has nothing to do with Islamic terrorists.

The scientists will try to figure out how to combat an asteroid attack, like the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and flattened a Siberian forest in 1908.
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Phoenix is a successful, growing city but it?s getting far too hot. Residents experience temperatures like 100 degrees F at 10:30 a.m. and they?re looking for a way to cool off. Phoenix wasn?t always this hot. In 1949, the average temperature for July was 90.4 degrees. Last year’s average temperature for July was 94.2 degrees.
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