Word: battlefield
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...easily enter the fray. Meanwhile, another group of sentinels, called macrophages, begin an immediate counterattack and release more chemicals, called cytokines, which signal for reinforcements. Soon, wave after wave of immune cells flood the site, destroying pathogens and damaged tissue alike - there's no carrying the wounded off the battlefield in this war. (No wonder the ancient Romans likened inflammation to being on fire...
...more remarkable talent. Just as the microbes can give electrons to iron, they will gladly donate them to an electrode, which creates an electrical current. Navy researchers first observed "electrified" sea muck in 2000. From this, Lovley's lab has corralled Geobacter into sediment batteries that could be powering battlefield electronics within a year...
...inquiry into why his prewar predictions of a big Iraqi WMD arsenal were wrong, Prime Minister Tony Blair dropped jaws by saying he didn't know that his weapons dossier's most notorious claim - that Iraq could deploy some WMDs in 45 minutes - applied only to battlefield munitions. But several cabinet ministers said they knew, casting doubt on Blair's claim of ignorance. Conservative leader Michael Howard called for Blair's resignation. Stepping Down latvia Prime Minister Einars Repse announced that his center-right government was resigning. The move came a week after one of the four parties...
...sound of exploding gunpowder no longer roars across the grassy ravine nestled in Petersburg National Battlefield Park in central Virginia. But to hear park historian Jimmy Blakenship talk about the battle that took place there 140 years ago, you have to wonder whether he can still hear the blast's echoes. "[Ulysses S.] Grant said, 'It's the saddest affair I've witnessed in this war,'" Blakenship says with a shake of his graying head...
This is not the war this Army unit--officially known as the Survey Platoon, Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment of the 1st Armored Division--was trained to fight. On a traditional battlefield, field-artillery survey units stay behind the front lines and use gyroscopic devices to measure the distance to enemy positions so the Army's big guns can hit their targets. That was the job this platoon, based in Giessen, Germany, pictured for itself when it received deployment orders in March, before the start of the war with Iraq. The group, now nicknamed the "Tomb Raiders...