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Peter started having delusions that interfered with his military duties. "I often thought I was being followed or that people were hiding in the trees waiting to come after me." Eventually, he says, his thoughts were disjointed most of the time. "I couldn't focus on anything." Finally, the Air...
TV dramas aside, AEDs are marvels of medical engineering. They test the signals coming from a patient's heart for the type of electrical problem that responds to defibrillation, and they're smart enough not to deliver a shock unless they find the right signal, thus preventing accidental discharge. Although...
Flying in a seaplane up the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia you see little but forested hills, a myriad of islands and the blue waters of the narrow channel that runs from Seattle to the Alaska Panhandle. As the plane drops over a ridge, a floating hut...
The Chinese, who have been farming fish for 2,000 years, pioneered a method in which nothing is wasted. Farmers dig ponds around rice paddies and feed carp in the ponds with weeds from the rice field. The silt from the ponds is used as fertilizer for the fields, and...
His Army career was bracketed by two terms in the National Guard, serving in a Louisiana unit from 1978 to 1985 (where his discipline record showed infractions for striking a non-commissioned officer in 1983 and for failing to show up when ordered on police duty the previous year) and...