The arrival of Australian Blackhawk helicopters triggered a minor dust storm at the Dili airport Tuesday, while trucks and armored vehicles rolled ashore from the small naval armada off the coast.

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Moreover, if pilots are grounded by reduced visibility during, say, a dust storm, the unmanned version keeps going.

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He crested a hill alone, with no cover but the dust kicked up by the storm of bullets still biting into the ground.

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Miller also is reanalyzing the data to see if there are variations when sunlight was blocked by a weeks-long dust storm on Mars, with the idea being that biological systems would have acted differently to the environmental change than geologic ones.

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Is it just due to the pixie dust being puffed out by Wall Street and the Fed, about to be blown away by the gathering storm others see coming.

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Some showed up amid a major dust storm more than a year ago to plant the first batch of saplings.

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And the nuclear-winter hypothesis (that the smoke from fires caused by a global nuclear war would blot out the sun's rays and thus cool the earth catastrophically) owes its origin, at least in part, to observations of a planet-wide dust storm on Mars.

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If you find yourself in a dust storm, here are five markers for finding your way through these times of vulnerability and back on the path of your true purpose.

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In Phoenix, blowing dust obscured the mountains surrounding the city, and at least four people were injured in a pileup when two semi-trucks jackknifed in a dust storm on I-10 in southern Arizona.

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