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...creature had to be remarkably light for its size, possibly only about 140 Ibs. Its wing bones were hollow tubes, and its body structure must have evolved for minimum weight. To emulate nature, MacCready's design team is using strong but lightweight parts made of carbon-fiber tubing and Kevlar cloth...
...battles that still kill thousands in less well-equipped armies. Only 16% of American injuries in Iraq have been from bullets, according to Pentagon statistics. But the amputation rate of injured Americans in Iraq is 6% - about double that in previous wars, mostly because soldiers' ceramic-plated vests and Kevlar helmets still leave limbs vulnerable. These soldiers might have died in past wars, when bullets and shrapnel hit their unarmored torsos. While more and more soldiers are surviving battles, though, doctors have uncovered a new phenomenon among those who return: traumatic brain injuries caused by explosions that damage neurological fibers...
...much easier, of course, to call the U.S. wounded unlucky, the double and triple amputees maimed in a war that has not always gone as planned. If Kevlar and ceramic plates are the great lifesavers of modern warfare along with quick-clotting powders and ultrasound units that fit in backpacks, how many more lives and limbs might have been saved if the humvees that were meant for transport in noncombat zones had been equipped with the armor necessary for a guerrilla war that has no front lines, no safe havens...
...says. "It's just the culture to get pissed, I guess." Outside, two young men square off drunkenly but stop when a police van glides by. Between midnight and 4 a.m., casualties stream into the Queen's Medical Center emergency department: a motionless clubber on a stretcher whom the Kevlar-clad ambulance crew wheels straight to a treatment room; a youth whose injuries - a lacerated hand and a bite on his arm - were sustained in a brawl outside a pub; and a tipsy woman in high-heeled boots who hurt her ankle on a cobblestone walkway. It's a typical...
...insurgency intensified, soldiers in Iraq began replacing the humvees' canvas doors with metal plates, draping Kevlar fabric over the seats and lining the floors with sandbags. Slowly but surely, the Pentagon began outfitting soft-skinned humvees with 1,000-lb. Armor Survivability Kits--which protect passengers from ground-level attacks but don't harden the humvee's floor, a major vulnerability when dealing with roadside bombs. The Pentagon has also scoured the globe for heavily armored humvees, sending to Iraq hundreds that had been based in the Balkans, Germany and South Korea. Even a few earmarked to protect the Pentagon...