About 10 percent of people are sensitive to house dust mites, said Dr. Clifford Bassett, an allergist in New York.

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But such is their persistence that they can also be found in soil, sediment, food, air and house dust, and 97% of Americans have detectable levels in their bodies.

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Allergies to pollen, furry or feathery animals or house-dust mite, can be triggers for asthma, because they irritate the airways.

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Mr Galliano is undoubtedly a talented designer who sprinkled Dior's once dowdy fashion house with pixie-dust.

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And amidst it all, rising from the dust, our house, its roof now on and a terrace slowly taking shape.

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The whole house had a layer of fine dust that had settled on all the surfaces.

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Chilli, prepared to a recipe finalised in the kitchen here a century back, seasoned with the pequins and japones that gleam fiercely in the bushes behind the ranch-house, like rubies in the dust.

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Neighbors said they stepped outside and saw only clouds of dust and piles of debris where the house stood moments earlier.

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Having grown up in a house made of prairie mud bricks, unprotected from dust and grasshopper invasions, the inventor dies a millionaire.

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If HIPs do bite the dust, proponents suggest this could be negative for house buyers.

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The House passed legislation two years ago that would force OSHA to quickly issue rules regulating combustible industrial dust, but the proposal stalled in the Senate.

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