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Article: Dust: not such a dry subject after all: a sweeping saga by a gifted science writer reveals the secret story of dust from its role in creating the solar system to its hidden mysteries that lie buried in your carpet. (Post Bookshelf).(Book Review)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
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- September 1, 2003
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The Secret Life of, Dust by Hannah Holmes 240 pages, Wiley Publishers, $14.95
Following John Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash into the waters off Cape Cod, many reports blamed the accident on a thick haze caused by heat and humidity that had descended over the area. But a veteran dust researcher from the University of Florida offered a different interpretation. Haze over the eastern states, he told a Miami newspaper, is nearly always caused by sulfur that drifts in from coal-powered plants in the Midwest. JFK Jr., his wife, and her sister were actually victims of a thick cloud of dust pollution.
This account is one of many revelations to be found in ...