March 2006

Combat Lifesaver Training

Quoting from this site: POLE AND JACKET LITTER Closes (buttons, zips) garments close.________ Turns garments inside out, leaving the sleeves on the inside.________ Lays garments on ground so one is above the other and passes poles through sleeves.________ One bearer kneels behind the casualty’s head, slips arms under the casualty’s arms and across the casualty’s […]

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What Floor?

Quoting from this site: The complexity of life took billions of years to push and stretch and reshape the biological niche that is Earth. It would seem prudent – if one had the means – to save some portion of the blueprints of this majesty, so that the process would not have to start over

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Anybody See Guyver?

Quoting from this site: Scientists have developed artificial, super-strength muscles which are powered by alcohol and hydrogen. And they could eventually be used to make more advanced prosthetic limbs, say researchers at University of Texas. Writing in Science, they say these artificial muscles are 100 times more powerful than the body’s own. They said they

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Ooh, Ooh, Ooh!! Coooollll…

Quoting from this site: Terrestrial rocks blown into space by asteroid impacts on Earth could have taken life to Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists have announced. Earth microbes in these meteorites could have seeded the organic-rich world with life, scientists believe. They think the impact on Earth that killed off the dinosaurs could have ejected enough

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Restoring More Than Buildings

Quoting from this site: It is unclear how many students are spending spring break helping with the recovery effort. But nearly 700 students from 85 schools in 27 states will be on the Gulf Coast with Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., this week alone. Thousands of others have been here in recent weeks, and more are

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Apples and Oranges

Quoting from this site: Dunleavy (chairman of St Patrick’s Day parade in NYC) set off a firestorm this week when he told the newspaper: “If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow Neo-Nazis into their parade? If African Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku

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Think You've Got Problems?

Quoting from this site: East Africa’s prolonged drought has dried up rivers in Tanzania and left some 3.7m people on the verge of starvation, with much of the country experiencing daytime power cuts as hydroelectric plants are short of water. You haven’t even heard about this, have you?  It wasn’t in any of the headlines

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