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...heat. Kamen decided to try to use that heat to make clean water. There are 6,000 deaths from contaminated water every day, according to the U.N., and safe water is one of the world's more urgent problems. Kamen's device uses that extra heat to distill water--boil it and condense it. Nothing new about that Kamen has invented lots of things, but he didn't invent distillation. The trick is to do it using as little energy as possible. However, 1,000 watts of heat won't boil much water, so Kamen developed a closed system, powered...
Cotton Mather is pictured digging up Burrows’s corpse. His animatronic shovel moves jerkily. Laura asks us to join her by the corpse, and to “make room” so that everyone can have a chance to see. She tells us of how Mather boiled Burrows’ skull and found that it was of an abnormal size, leading him to claim Burrows was a witch. “But, of course, when you boil someone’s skeleton, their bones expand,” Laura tells us chirpily...
...parents were in college during the height of the Vietnam War. They remember the pain of a long-term conflict with no end in sight. Now my generation sits comatose in the face of world events that should make anyone's blood boil. My fellow youth: Are we afraid? MICHELLE SISSON La Jolla, Calif...
...sanitation workers out to harvest the remains of every dead refrigerator, get the buses and trains moving. Ohio Governor Bob Taft declared a state of emergency in Cleveland after all four pumping stations that lift water out of Lake Erie went out and residents were ordered to boil their water at least through Sunday. Even the beaches were off limits for swimming after a sewage discharge sent bacteria levels soaring. At least one house fire in the city was blamed on burning candles...
...make part of the American character. "I am," she wrote, "a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country; and the least appearance of an encroachment on those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil exceedingly." It was as good a description of the real Benjamin Franklin--and, indeed, of a typical American--as is likely to be found anywhere...