By DAN LAMOTHE | The Washington Post | Published: January 10, 2021 The U.S. soldiers scrambled from one bunker to the next, stumbling past charred wreckage, 30-foot-wide craters and puddles of diesel fuel. A barrage of ballistic missiles had briefly knocked some of them unconscious, and more were on the way. Maj. Alan Johnson struggled to focus after absorbing the monstrous blast waves of several explosions, including one that missed his bunker by about 60 feet, he recalled. I still have anxiety, Johnson said. I still have recurring nightmares of incoming - just that sound of those things coming in. The United States stood at the precipice of full-scale war a year ago when Iran launched 16 missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq. Eleven struck Ain al-Asad air base in the western part of the country, another landed outside the northern city of Irbil and four malfunctioned, the military said.
JEFFERSON â A special meeting was held on Tuesday, Dec. 15 between members of the Ashe County Board of Education, Ashe County Board of Commissioners and architect Larry Greene.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the proposed plans for the new middle school. Arrangements for this meeting were made following the BOE meeting on Dec. 7, where several members of the board expressed an interest in holding such a meeting in an effort to be âon the same page.â
To comply with the state regulations governing the number of persons allowed to gather indoors due to COVID-19, the meeting was available for those interested to view via Zoom Communications.
Yuen Yiu, Staff Writer
(Inside Science) Scientists have figured out a way to look into our galactic past and the proposed method is literally groundbreaking: It involves digging up salt crystals from miles underground. A paper describing the approach was recently published in
Physical Review Letters.
Digging deep for our galactic past
Typically, astronomers look into the past by staring deep into space and observing light that has taken billions of years to arrive from faraway galaxies and even the Big Bang itself.
But how do we study the history of something that is more nearby say, within the Milky Way Galaxy, which is only a hundred thousand light-years across? Or our sun, which is only eight light-minutes away?