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Beyond that, sharks have immense practical value. While shark cartilage does not, despite the claims, prevent cancer, it has been used to make artificial skin for burn victims. Shark corneas have been used experimentally for human transplants. Shark blood contains anticlotting agents. Shark-liver oil seems to aid white-blood-cell production; it is also an active ingredient in, of all things, Preparation...
...Electric workers and the officer were treated for minor smoke inhalation and released early yesterday evening, but one worker who suffered second and third degree burns covering 30 percent of his body was transferred to the burn unit, said Eric Legome, the attending physician in the MGH emergency room...
...true that [under the new guidelines] you could not rebuild Kirkland House exactly the same as it is today," he said. But "the notion that Kirkland house is going to burn to the ground and be rebuilt exactly the same is fanciful...
...m.p.h., a speed that caused it to experience deceleration forces nearly 20 times as great as than Earth's gravity. In order to survive, the spaceship had to approach the planet at an angle of about 14.2[degrees]. "Go in too steep and you could crash and burn," says Pathfinder project scientist Matthew Golombek. "Go in too shallow and you skip back...
...West Virginia's Grant County seemed protected by its solid marriage to Virginia Power's Mount Storm generating station. It was built on a tortured, windswept plateau in the mid-1960s only because abundant coal was nearby. The coal was worth mining, in turn, only because Mount Storm would burn it. Tipple and boiler were linked by a two-mile covered conveyor belt that carried coal from the east portal of the mine straight to the storage silos of the power plant. The miners still marvel at the sheer handiness of the setup. "That coal never touched the ground," they...