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Later that day, an Austrian policeman arrived by helicopter and attempted to free the body with a jackhammer. The brute-force tool chewed up the Iceman's garments and ripped through his left hip, exposing the bone. Fortunately, the officer ran out of compressed air to power the jackhammer before he could do further damage. His superiors decided to wait until the following week to resume the recovery; the helicopter, they explained, was needed for more important things...
...Neolithic climber was also armed with a tiny flint dagger with a wooden handle; a net of grass, which possibly served as a carrying bag; and a pencil- size stone-and-linden tool that was probably used to sharpen arrowheads and blades. Two birchbark canisters may have been used to carry the embers from a fire, Egg speculates. The Iceman apparently toted much of his gear in a primitive rucksack with a U-shaped wooden frame...
...Polish immigrants, who served in the French Resistance in World War II and survived Dachau. A physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva since 1959, he was honored for his 1968 work in particle physics and invention of the "multiwire proportional chamber," a tool physicists use to probe the nature of matter. Charpak will use the award for research...
...talk about testing character and leadership, debates have been about as reliable a predictive tool as newspaper horoscopes. In 1960 neither Kennedy nor Nixon hinted at the looming U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In four debates, they fielded only two questions on civil rights. In 1980 Ronald Reagan got off scot-free when he confidently forecast that his economic elixir of tax cuts and defense hikes would miraculously produce "a balanced budget by 1983, if not earlier." At least in 1988 Ann Compton of ABC deserved credit for pressing George Bush: "Isn't the phrase 'no new taxes' misleading the voters...
Trevor Ware, who works in informationtechnology, went on, "To do a large organizationalchange project, in my mind, is to optimize thesmaller pieces, or work streams, within a projectto take a holistic approach. This broad-basedapproach is a powerful tool for strategic change...