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...planting trees near the house, they will not do anything differently. "All these bushfire prevention ideas are a load of rubbish," he says. "The brick houses were just as burnt as the timber ones. It doesn't matter what the house is made of. A fire like that will destroy everything in its path...
...this book is to destroy her husband's political career, then it's almost a mercy killing. The author painstakingly details how their partnership, which started as one in which family values and a desire to make a contribution were shared, came unglued as she stayed at home to raise their children and he focused more on politics. She left her high-powered banking job in New York City and moved to South Carolina for him - willingly, she says. She ran four successful campaigns for him, more or less willingly, for no pay. She spent six years raising their four...
...Republican Senator added. A former NASA administrator compared it unfavorably to a similar decision made by Richard Nixon, labeling it, “one of the most…strategically bankrupt…decisions in human history.” This is what you get when you try to destroy a program that has had nearly unanimous support in two Congresses: one controlled by Republicans and one led by Democrats. It passed in the latter by a vote...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff want the ability to destroy an enemy's computer network "so badly that it cannot perform any function," according to the handbook on what the Pentagon calls "Information Operations." The U.S. military wants to keep foes "from accessing and using critical information, systems and services" and to spoof adversaries "by manipulating their perception of reality." Just how such wizardry is to be accomplished is contained in a classified supplement. But hints can be gleaned in a trickle of contracts and budget documents, larded with geek-speak, that have begun seeping onto the public record. (See pictures...
Medical School Professor Craig A. Bunnell, who works in Dana Farber’s Breast Oncology Center, said women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer often have tumors surgically removed before the disease can metastasize. Following surgery, patients receive chemotherapy to destroy any microscopic cancerous cells traveling through the bloodstream and may also undergo hormone and radiation therapy. The dilemma, Bunnell said, is determining which patients will benefit from chemotherapy. Though many stay in remission after chemotherapy, others relapse...