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Millions of Americans sleep in rooms on the second to the seventh floor. But home fire-safety ladders sometimes aren't long enough to provide an easy escape in case of emergency. Enter the LifeCender: a new, portable escape harness that allows a person to rappel down the side of a building. It comes in a briefcase-like box and goes on like a life jacket. Once the unit is anchored and secured, a person can control his or her descent to safety with a knob that monitors how quickly the cord unspools. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...Sept. 15], you described how bin Laden's network is rallying new recruits to battle U.S. forces in Iraq. It seems likely that the same political situation that made it possible for the Taliban to take control in Afghanistan will now emerge in Iraq. Foreign, mainly Arab, volunteers may enter the country in massive numbers, carrying with them one great desire: to fight the U.S. soldiers who occupy the country. The foreseeable future looks bleak when one takes into account that the voluntary jihadists have a clear-cut goal and a fanatic determination and that the U.S. won't easily...
Trinkaus’s work documented the rate of occurrence of specific annoyances including adolescents who wear backwards baseball caps and shoppers who enter the express check-out line at supermarkets with more than the allotted number of items...
...write, she travels from London to her publisher’s house in southern France. Looking for peace and solitude, she instead encounters her publisher’s French daughter, Julie, whose reckless and promiscuous lifestyle is exactly what Sarah is trying to escape. Thrown together, the reluctant housemates enter an odd relationship in which both simultaneously disapprove of and are fascinated by the other. The result is a complex and subtle mystery that transcends standard thriller and mystery cliches. Swimming Pool will be rewarding for more cerebral viewers; for others, it may be hopelessly confusing...
...thirteen Summer Urban Programs in 2001 and the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. Above all, his public service work at Harvard was essential to giving him an “understanding first of all that was what the public service community was like. It enabled me to enter that community intelligently in Philadelphia.” His directorships taught him how to run a public service organization itself, from fundraising to directing volunteers. Ultimately, though, what distinguished Schultz’s undergraduate career in public service wasn’t just the fact that, at age 20, he ran a full...