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Cambridge fire chief, Gerald R. Reardon says that while the handful of false fire alarms is small compared to the 143 legimitate alarms since Sept. 1, the escalating frustration of firemen is understandable...
...London doctors who attended Litvinenko's bedside quickly suspected that some kind of radioactive agent was causing his decline. His hair was falling out, his athlete's body was shriveling, his bone marrow was failing, just as if he had been one of the firemen called to the burning reactor at Chernobyl. But gamma spectrometers found nothing unusual in his blood or urine. As doctors ruled out a slew of increasingly obscure toxins and bugs, the patient's condition worsened. In desperation, the police sent his urine to Britain's Atomic Weapons Establishment, which has equipment beyond the reach...
...Toastie Os cereal and somehow pull out what looked to be a medium rare filet mignon 45 seconds later. I’m jealous that you’re even allowed to use the microwave, a device that my parents have banned me from operating ever since the firemen had to visit my house in 9th grade...
...main breezeway. With the vast majority dressed either for sleep or the overzealous Eliot heating system, the cold, frustrated evacuees began huddling together for warmth. In pods of three or four, they began to ponder their situation. “If this is a drill, where are the firemen?” “What is she doing at Eliot House this late?” “Oh my god, it’s my CS 50 TF!” While the crowd was beginning to focus on the embarrassed, pajama-clad visitors in its midst...
...Mansfield also considers the dark side of manliness. He observes that both the Sept. 11 terrorists and New York’s first responders acted manfully on that day. The hijackers exhibited manliness by forfeiting their lives in defense of their belief system. But New York’s firemen, paramedics, and police officers acted no less manfully as they undertook perilous, and often fatal, rescue missions in defense of the people of New York...