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Modern memorials are more fluid, both in purpose and construction, than they once were--less set in stone. In March, widows of those killed in Vietnam launched an "Interactive Widows of War Living Memorial" on the Internet. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982), the Korean War Veterans Memorial (1995), the Women in Military Service for America Memorial (1997) are all replicated in a number of states and towns. In 1998 a scale model of the Vietnam Memorial wall, called a Healing Wall, became a traveling exhibit so that people in local communities could experience the feelings of those who visit...
...investors, tech stocks have always been wobbly, with their stratospheric price-to-earnings ratios and fluid business plans; now they're starting to careen, mostly downward, with regularity, and other bets are only getting better. "The higher interest rates go, the more lucrative bonds and T-bills are," says Baumohl. "When 30-year bond yields get over 7 percent, with absolutely no risk, money gets shifted out of the techs and put elsewhere." And then there are the fundamentals, which were never the tech sector's strong suit anyway. "When rates go up, companies don't have as much money...
...uniform's innermost layer has microtubes with circulating fluid to provide 100 watts of heating and cooling from head...
...Fluid Supply Cooling/Heating Stack Power Supply Micropump/Motor...
...YOUR LIFE We've all heard the bizarre reports of super-fit athletes suddenly dying during a competition. The culprit may not be a sudden heart attack after all. Doctors report at least six cases of marathon runners collapsing--and one dying--because of fluid accumulated in the lungs and brain, a syndrome known as hyponatremic encephalopathy. The problem, which may be linked to drinking too much water, is easily treatable as long as it is quickly diagnosed...