sent to the blaze in Stamford likely will take it personally
that they were unable to save the five family members."Their desire was
to get that family out and they were unable to. Totally understandable
raging fire, people trapped inside. Sometimes the challenges are
too big and it becomes personal at that point," he said."They feel
this, they're going to feel this," he added. "It is our belief
that every fire can be prevented and that no one should lose
their life to fire. When that happens, we try to figure out
why."Olshanski said the firefighters probably will feel a wide range of emotion.
"There will be sadness, there will be grief," he said, adding how
some might wonder if they could have done something more, or something
different, to save the family.It is common for firefighters in these situations,
Olshanski said, to go through a critical incident stress debriefing. He said
it's important because they're going to have to go on similar calls
in t
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina A group of 50 Argentine women threatened to
sue their plastic surgeons on Tuesday if they don't get free replacements
of faulty French breast implants.The group is led by attorney Virginia Luna,
who herself has the "PIP" silicone gel packs implanted in her breasts.
She said five of her clients have obtained out-of-court agreements to provide
free replacements, and if the rest don't get them as well, her
group will sue.The implants made by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant
Prothese were banned last year in countries around the world after more
than 1,000 women suffered ruptures. In all, 30,000 French women got the
implants, and could experience harmful leaks of cheap industrial-grade silicone -- not
the medical-grade gel that higher-quality implants use.France's health system has recommended that
any women with the implants get them replaced, and has agreed to
pay for surgeries that could total millions of dollars. Not so in
B
the dispensaries breed crime. The city's lawyers soon found critical flaws in
RAND's data collection, largely stemming from RAND's reliance on data from CrimeReports.com,
which did not include data from the L.A. Police Department. RAND blamed
itself for the error, not CrimeReports.com, which had made no claims of
having a complete set of data, and, in fact, didn't even know
about the study.#4 -- Butterfly meets worm, falls in love, and has
caterpillars.The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a fantastic
claim in 2009 by zoologist Donald Williamson, which was delightfully reported in
the science news media. Williamson claimed that ancestors of modern butterflies mistakenly
fertilized their eggs with sperm from velvet worms. The result was the
necessity for the caterpillar stage of the butterfly life cycle.The PNAS paper
got a few laughs among evolutionary scientists, but it hasn't yet been
retracted. Williamson's follow-up 2011 paper
strong supporter of traditional marriage," Schlafly said in a long statement
to reporters.Bachmann is trying to follow in Santorum's footsteps, hitting all 99
counties in one week, an ambitious goal. Starting in Council Bluffs on
the state's western edge on Tuesday, Bachmann will hit gas stations and
diners. By nightfall, she was slated to have visited another 10 counties.Out
on the trail Tuesday, Perry againargued that a vote for him is
a vote for a Washington outsider. Taking a dig at Paul, he
said voters don't have to pick a candidate who would allow Iran
to wipe Israel off the earth."You don't have to stand for that,"
he said. "I have all the respect in the world for the
frontrunners," he added, asking if voters replace a Democratic insider with a
Republican insider, will Washington change.With the three conservative candidates making their late
play to win over Iowa's base voters, they are joined by Romney
and Gingrich on bus tours around the state while
against the Gingrich-Romney duo. And I think that I'm going to be
the one coming out Iowa with that mantle."And if we can do
that, then we're off to the races here, and conservatives around the
country, just like they're doing here in Iowa, are going to start
rallying around our campaign," he said.Santorum isn't the only one making a
last-ditch effort around the state to appeal to social conservatives. Rick Perry
and Michele Bachmann are likely Santorum's most competitive among the social conservative
crowd. And both are working vigorously to get supporters to show up
at the caucuses next Tuesday night. Bachmann also won a coveted show
of support from Phyllis Schlafly, founder of the conservative Eagle Forum, who
on Tuesday said Bachmann "has the courage to be a leader among
her peers.""She is a real champion in speaking up for values we
care about. Michele is a woman of faith and the mother of
a beautiful family. She has a 100 percent pro-life record and is a
e widespread issue of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military
starts by ending it at the service academies," Jacob said in a
statement.West Point did not immediately return a call seeking comment.Other academy officials
said they believe the increase in reporting indicates a positive step in
making cadets and midshipmen feel more comfortable about reporting incidents
a crucial part of addressing the problem."We believe that there's much more
trust in our system than maybe we've seen in years past," said
Col. Reni Renner, vice commandant culture and climate at the Air Force
Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.Deborah Goode, a spokeswoman at the Naval Academy
in Annapolis, Md., said the school includes training for midshipmen throughout all
four years to prevent harassment and encourage reporting."We believe there is a
better understanding by midshipmen of what constitutes sexual harassment and sexual assault,
as well as an increased willingness to re
