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...diagnosed a couple of children with bleeding inside the skull, just based on their history and physical exams, and we managed to transport them to Tehran for surgery,” Waltzman said. “If it were here, we would have gotten CAT scans and neurosurgeons at [their] beside,” he added...
...We’re in the process now of investigating those complaints,” said Carl Tempesta, Operations Manager for Passenger Transport and Fleet Management Services...
...rickshaws have become increasingly common in some of Western Europe's major metropolises. First introduced in the West in the '90s as an environmentally friendly novelty, they have since become a fun way to cover short distances in crowded neighborhoods. While unlikely to become an everyday form of commuter transport, in places like Paris, London and Groningen in the Netherlands, rickshaws - technically known as pedicabs or trishaws, since the drivers are cycling, not running - hold their own in tourist traffic against more conventional vehicles. "For a night on the town it's a bit of a lark," says a London...
...fact, the meeting was historic. The last significant official U.S. presence in Iran was involuntary--52 Americans held hostage for 444 days in the U.S. embassy starting in 1979. Before the relief workers' arrival in their C-5 transport planes, the last U.S. military aircraft to land in Iran was part of the botched 1980 hostage rescue. Both the U.S. and Iranian governments described the current mission as strictly humanitarian, and, indeed, last Friday the Iranians rebuffed a U.S. offer to send a second, higher-powered delegation that would have included Senator Elizabeth Dole and an unnamed Bush family member...
...company looks more carefully at its business during the down times, selling off parts that aren't working--such as gas delivered in cylinders for welding and metal fabrication--and retraining workers whenever possible so that they can move into growth industries. Truck drivers who used to just transport gases to industrial customers, for example, are being trained for the delicate task of administering liquid helium to the magnets in MRI scanners. "There are many manufacturing firms that are out of ideas," Meldrum says. "The easiest thing to go after is cost...