In the name of scientific detachment, they cited a possible alternative explanation that the features were caused by the movement of dry dust down a slope.

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Here he is offering empty chambers, dry as dust.

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The new gum becomes non-adhesive when dry and decomposes to dust within six weeks, a spokesman for Mexico's Chicza Mayan Rainforest Chewing Gum told CNN.

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It creates a dry mist that harkens back to the arid dust of South African townships.

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He kept his eyes open as the convoy moved along the crowded Kabul streets, where fresh meat carcasses hung out to dry and barefooted kids played in the narrow, dust-ridden alleyways.

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Crop yields in recent dry years were less affected by drought than crops of the dust-bowl droughts of the 1930s, when there was less carbon dioxide.

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