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...Everyone recognizes that the IMF isn't perfect," he said. "If you have a 10-alarm fire, you don't close the one firehouse you have because it's made some mistakes...
...cost of adding the insulation would run into the billions, which may be one reason why the FAA isn't sounding an urgent alarm. It hasn?t issued an "airworthiness directive," the FAA's term for something that must be done at once. Instead, the agency suggests that the retrofit be performed at each plane?s next scheduled maintenance check, or thereabouts. The FAA has known about the potential insulation problem for years -- its Chinese counterpart reported the problem in 1996 after a Chinese Eastern MD-11 caught fire in Beijing. Hopefully, no more fresh evidence will come along...
Several panelists supported these student principles, such as Dr. Robert Kohan, a professor of political science from Duke, who echoed the need for some form of public disclosure so that workers or human-rights groups at a particular factory could pull the code of conduct fire-alarm and alert universities to code violation. Koehane also pointed out that the quick consensus called for by some administrators should not be used an excuse for a weak code...
People generally think of a vaccine as something that fends off an illness before it gets started. But this one mobilizes the immune system against already established tumors. Lyerly and his colleagues aim to enhance the ability of dendritic cells, an alarm conveyor in the immune system, to target the cancerous cells and make it easier for the body's killer T cells to recognize and destroy them. If it works, this approach promises a more effective and much less toxic alternative to the carpet bombing that is chemotherapy. After decades in which immune therapies have failed to live...
Most people were unaware that a spilled chemical caused Friday's fire until they saw the Hazardous Materials unit arrive. Firefighters double-checked the scene when they arrived to be sure no one had ignored the alarm and stayed in the building...