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The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.
Foes of affirmative action extol the book--part history, part policy analysis--as a devastating blow to race-based programs.
But by the end of the century cotton had fallen victim to a devastating plague of chenille bugs and exhaustion of the weak soil.
Inevitably, devastating bombing reprisals flattened the city.
Far from devastating, this slowdown was, the White House said at the time, good for seniors.