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Good departments run an aggregate of water-pumping engines--the front line of defense, first to the fire. The engines are backed up by the trucks, whose firefighters rescue trapped people and ventilate fire buildings. For cities with special needs--say, a large chemical-spewing plant near a residential area--apparatus and personnel trained to handle hazards...
Folkman has been working on restricting blood vessel growth, particularly near tumors, for over 30 years, according to Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Elias J. Corey...
...freshman setter Mindy Jellin (25 assists) finally stopped the bleeding for the Crimson. On the next Quinnipiac serve, she tapped the ball into a foot-wide open space, with no Braves players anywhere near, to end the threat...
Nice as it was, Pat Carnright's cruise to Alaska two years ago just wasn't quite enough. "It's so much more fun to go and learn about a country and the people," she says. This past summer, when she ventured from her home near Tacoma, Wash., it was not to Rome or Rio but to West Africa, where she did as much as six hours' worth of volunteer work each day for three weeks in a village named Ho, 50 miles north of Accra, Ghana. Under the auspices of the organization Cross-Cultural Solutions, Carnright, a part-time...
...love his yacht and Elizabethan manor home in Cheshire, near Iceland's North Wales base, but Walker is also fond of his organic garden. "I want to leave a world at least as good as it is now to my children," he says. It's a platitude in the mouths of most, but from Walker, it's a mission he tries to fulfill. --By Helen Gibson/North Wales