Word: repairable
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Today, many of the residents "work on the State Road in the summer and live off unemployment in the winter," says Rosenstraus, referring to New York's highway-repair project...
Today, many of the residents "work on the State Road in the summer and live off unemployment in the winter," says Rosenstraus, referring to New York's highway-repair project...
...Repair workers ran temporary power cables into Old Quincy, but planned to restore full power to the building by Wednesday...
...experiment was brutally simple. Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden took 23 rats and neatly severed their spinal cords, paralyzing their hind legs. Then they took some of the injured rats and set about trying to repair the damage, using microsurgery to build hair-thin "bridges" across the spinal gap. It was an approach other scientists had tried in various forms for nearly 30 years, with little success. But this time, according to a report published last week in Science, it worked. Not only did the severed nerve fibers grow across the bridge, but the rats also began...
...rationing that followed last year's floods, many North Koreans had been getting by on tiny grain rations that barely sustain them. The new flooding seems certain to lead to starvation and other severe suffering. "It's difficult to expect them to work in the fields and repair the vast new flood damage with so little to eat," Hauser says. The United Nations appeal for food aid to compensate for last year's flooding drew little support, in part because western opponents of the Pyongyang regime argued that giving such help would merely prop up the communists, and would probably...