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...human being, or at least part of a human being, and human beings bury their dead. So instead of using backhoes and bulldozers to clear the remnants of the World Trade Center, hundreds of men scoop out the remains with their hands. They put them in 5-gal. buckets and pass them hand to hand down a 200-ft. line before they are emptied in piles in front of an investigator, who sifts through them. The workers will do this for 10- and 12- and 18-hour shifts, kneeling and using their hands to dig, even though they stand next...
With so much skin compromised, the top priority for doctors is to keep a patient's body warm and hydrated. In the first 24 hours, the treatment is surprisingly simple: saline fluid--sometimes as much as 8 gal.--to keep up blood volume and stabilize blood pressure, and morphine for pain. Only after a patient is able to maintain normal blood pressure, says Yurt, can surgery begin--a painstaking process in which burned skin is scraped away and substitute sheets grafted in. And even then, only about 20% to 30% of the severely burned will survive...
...Barroso; in the 1950s and '60s it was soft-swaying bossa nova and Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, Joao and Astrud Gilberto. Then, in the late 1960s and '70s, the Tropicalia movement marched in, armed with rock guitars and rebel lyrics and led by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa...
Experts say public-subsidy schemes often give water to farms and industries for as little as $16 an acre-foot when it's worth as much as $400 to municipal water systems. That encourages uneconomic uses of the precious resource. Water consumption in the U.S. averages 100 gal. a day per person, nearly three times the European average. Coy predicts that once private buyers and sellers are allowed to determine a market price for water, international trade in the commodity will boom...
...mile pipeline to carry water from Gisborne Lake to Newfoundland's southern coast, then pump it into tanker ships. White estimates it will cost less than a penny a gallon to get water from the lake to his potential buyers. Bulk water now sells for about 2[cents] per gal. in the U.S. At 66 million gal. a shipload, twice a week, that's a lot of pennies...