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More than two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag is a constitutionally protected form of free expression. But some Southerners aren't about to make it easy for protesters to burn another flag they hold dear: the Confederate Stars and Bars...
...Buchanan will lose. By Super Tuesday at the latest, his candidacy will crash and burn. He will, however, succeed in pressuring the president back to the position from which he began and won the 1988 campaign--squarely on the (neocon-servative) Right...
...costs, of course, are even higher. Adolpho, 17, carries for a dealer in a section of north Camden known as the Danger Zone. Scissor-like scars cut edgewise across his knuckles, and the skin around his throat is mottled with burn marks from the time he put a match to an aerosol can in a street fight. Adolpho has seen five friends die in drug wars. Each time a child is killed, his epitaph is added to the graffiti murals adorning the walls of north Camden's vacant lots. "It can happen at any time to anybody," Adolpho says...
With severe burn cases and patients who might have skin cancer as well as another skin ailment such as psoriasis, Fewkes says that autografting presents an advantage over split thickness grafting...
...harness the turbulence of wind. Early models used blades of a type originally designed for helicopters. Since wind pressure could vary considerably from one end of the blade to the other, the rotor would wobble wildly and eventually break off. Sudden gusts of wind could overpower the machine and burn out its energy- converting turbine. Some engineers tried solving the problems by building heavier machines, but that simply made them more expensive...