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...alarmed. And with Ceduna being the first entry point for motorists coming from Western Australia, where Medfly has flourished since about 1900, they are in the frontline for any outbreaks, usually spread through egg-carrying fruit. A bin outside their hut overflows with confiscated produce; statewide, 45,000 kg were collected in the past six months. The low-tech operation is winning the war for South Australia's $250 million fruit and vegetable industry. "We're the only state free of fruit fly," says Ceduna's senior inspector, Peter Lowe, "so it's working up until...
...There's hardly an exhibit in the Beck Museum-housed in a hangar and shed beside his home at Mareeba, 60 km west of Cairns-that the retired farmer doesn't have a story about: from the recoilless cannon built for a Russian czar to the empty 250-kg chemical bomb from Australia's World War II stockpile, to the Vietnam-era Centurion tank...
...while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed his lower left leg. Intensive rehab after the leg was amputated helped persuade Navy doctors to clear him for diving?although he had to prove he could climb with 136 kg on his back to simulate diving tanks. After Men of Honor premiered, Brashear was deluged with letters from amputees. He answered every one, sharing his message of relentless optimism. "It's not a sin to be down," he liked to say. "It's a sin to stay down...
...reduce the bulk of their haul, because less is more when it comes to transport and security. If the entire $97 million had been, conveniently, in Britain's largest ?50 ($92) notes, the robbers would have had to cope with 1.06 million pieces of paper, weighing over 500 kg and stacking over 40 storeys high. As it turns out, the cache included tens and twenties, which multiplies the bulk by three or four or five. Sure, the robbers have bragging rights - this was Britain's biggest ever heist - but the unprecedented size of the haul means they faced unprecedented problems...
...shuffling to turn a radiology waiting room into a maternity ward, an MRI scanner space into a recovery room and a heart catheterization laboratory into a neonatal intensive care unit. Nurses there are working furiously to keep a 600 gm. baby girl alive, along with 1.2 kg. twin boys...