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...Geneva-based International Campaign to Ban Landmines says there are an average of 15,000 to 20,000 land-mine deaths or injuries annually as innocent victims wander onto the leftover devices. Unknown numbers of unexploded mines are waiting to find victims in Angola, Cambodia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina and many other countries...
Unless the mines can be found first. "There are a lot of promises in land-mine detection, but still, what people often come back to is the guy poking around with a stick," says Elleholm, speaking of technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, infrared devices and thermal neutron activation. Many current methods are slow and cover no more than 1% of the estimated 77,220 sq. mi. of the world's land-mine-infested territory every year. Elleholm says Aresa's technique can cover five times as much ground in the same amount of time as other detection techniques...
Elleholm thinks Aresa will have a reliable land-mine-detecting thale-cress in about two years and hopes to apply similar biotech to detect larger, unexploded ordnance and eventually to cull antibodies from plants. But first it will focus on land mines. If it succeeds, Aresa will make thale-cress a weed that will be welcomed...
...guard Tommy Amaker, formerly the head coach at Seton Hall and Michigan. Amaker has coached teams to where the Crimson hopes to go, having led Seton Hall to the Sweet 16 as a No. 10 seed in the 2000 NCAA Tournament and plans to get Harvard to that promised land soon.Will it be this year? History says no. In addition to never winning the league, the Crimson has only finished second once, back in 1971, while every other Ivy school has snagged at least part of one crown since league play began in 1956. More recently, Harvard saw promising title...
...small fountain crowned with a shield in the blue-and-yellow colors of the club guards the access to the sector where 3,000 plots have been set aside for die-hard Boca fans in a hectare of land lined with blue and yellow flowers. And on blue-and-yellow memorial walls, small stars are inscribed with the names of fans and football players who have found their final resting place here...