Plain Dealer: The problem: Hearts for transplant must be transported from donor to recipient within about four hours before complications begin to develop. The hearts are placed on ice inside picnic coolers for the drive or flight from one hospital to another. That means traffic jams, bad weather and mechanical problems can cause such serious […]
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Focus Taiwan News Channel: A research team at Taiwan’s National Defense University has recently been using nano-carbon materials to develop lightbulbs and tubes that are more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly than currently available products. Ger Ming-der, a professor at the university’s Department of Chemical and Material Engineering at Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, said he
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BusinessDay: Renting party equipment has become big business, particularly in many big cities. And the business is lucrative too. Canopies, chairs, tables, stage platform, ice buckets or drums, cooking utensils, table cloth and such other party equipment are in hot demand by party organisers. There is hardly a weekend when parties are not held in
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On this day in 1888, the first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward Burroughs. Burroughs was the son of a mechanic and worked with machines throughout his childhood. While he was still a small boy, his parents moved to Auburn, New York, where he and his brothers were educated
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Mental Floss: Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to destroy the industry. Here’s a little perspective: In 1939, gas cost 10 cents a gallon at the pump. A movie ticket set you back 20 cents. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the year’s bestselling hardcover book, was $2.75.
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A company called Star Toilet Paper gives away free roles of toilet paper, preprinted with coupons and advertising to bars, apartment buildings, theatres, stadiums and offices. The Journal News has more: There will be more than graffiti to read in local public bathroom stalls if two Blind Brook High School graduates succeed in marketing toilet
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