Another problem is a more pervasive albeit lower-intensity source of cadmium: phosphate fertilizer.

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But it certainly does intimacy, and even intensity, with stunning fidelity to the source material.

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Mr. KAISER: Well, Ike is moved off-shore of south of Cuba, into the Caribbean, and back over water which means perhaps a little bit of intensity increase as it again joins that source of energy over those warm waters.

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"It's correlating the increasing intensity in different bands that provides really important clues about the structure of the source, " Prof Madejski - a co-investigator on the NuStar X-ray telescope, told BBC News.

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