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...fair, there are logistical challenges to making the drill a surprise, notes Kish. "It's a balance. With events of this scale, it would be almost impossible to clear the secretaries' and governors' schedules [without prior warning]. There are other exercises that the government does that have much less notice. And I don't think we need to say too much more about that here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Terror Drills | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...tissues, have a 25% chance of having a heart attack and an 8% chance of dying within 30 days; similar patients who do not get transfused have an 8% chance of a cardiac event and a 3% chance of death. Stamler hypothesizes that without NO, red blood cells cannot drill their way into tiny blood vessels; rather, they pile up in narrow passageways, blocking blood flow instead of increasing it and hampering the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Banked Blood Goes Bad | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

...weapons.“[Threatt is a] really, really good quarterback, really good scrambler, so going in we were just kind of thinking to keep the pressure on him, contain him because he’s so good at getting outside of the pocket and running the scramble drill and making something happen,” junior linebacker Eric Schultz said. “We had early success getting to him.”But the Crimson saved its best football for after halftime.With Pizzotti in for O’Hagan, the squad put together an eight-play, 96-yard...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Suffers Last-Minute Loss at Lehigh | 9/30/2007 | See Source »

...harvesting whatever Greenland's icy waters may yield - not to mention the resources under the polar cap - is a long way off. The sea ice is still too thick in most places to access reserves that may or may not exist, and the technology to drill in these inhospitable conditions is not there yet. "If anybody has reached anything, we haven't heard about it," says Mr. Steen Ryd Larsen, who heads the department in charge of Greenland in the Danish Prime Minister's office. "And if somebody reaches the resources, it would be another decade before it generates income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenland to World: "Keep Out!" | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...albums into its existence, Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana band has evolved into a four-piece version of Silver Bullet Band-era Bob Seger. Like its predecessors, Echoes is predictably ghee-tar heavy, with lyrics focused on a core of universally agreed-upon values (authenticity, integrity; you know the drill). It's tuneful, stolid, competent--but also a little dull. Like a rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime: Oct. 1, 2007 | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

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