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...have to be really comfortable in your own skin to be an extension school student,” Vaghar said. “People are constantly questioning why you would do this. Kids here don’t know much about it. It even took my boyfriend a month to understand what I was doing. You get to this point though where you just accept it, and say to people simply, ‘I do this because it works...
...Irish architect Ronnie Clifford, 47, was twice blessed: as both hero and survivor of the terrorist attacks. Standing in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel after the first plane hit, Clifford saw a charred woman rise from the pyre, her fingernails melting off and her clothes burned onto her skin. He was shielding her with his coat when a second shudder sent them to the floor. To keep her from drifting off, they conversed and prayed. She told him her name, Jennieann Maffeo, and the name and number of her boss at Paine Webber; she also told...
...first thing you feel is the heat. Even on a warm, sunny day, the patient rooms and hallways of the burn unit at New York Presbyterian Hospital are heated to 85[degrees] F. For the most severely burned, that's still not warm enough; with so much skin scorched away, the body can no longer keep up the temperature that internal organs need to function...
With so much skin compromised, the top priority for doctors is to keep a patient's body warm and hydrated. In the first 24 hours, the treatment is surprisingly simple: saline fluid--sometimes as much as 8 gal.--to keep up blood volume and stabilize blood pressure, and morphine for pain. Only after a patient is able to maintain normal blood pressure, says Yurt, can surgery begin--a painstaking process in which burned skin is scraped away and substitute sheets grafted in. And even then, only about 20% to 30% of the severely burned will survive...
...well suited for inflicting widespread damage. Unlike germs, chemical agents can't reproduce, observes Tucker. "You have to generate a lethal concentration in the air, which means you need very large quantities." To kill a sizable number of people with sarin, for example, which can be absorbed through the skin as a liquid or inhaled as a vapor, you would need something like a crop-dusting plane--which is why investigators last week were so alarmed to find a manual for operating crop-dusting equipment while searching suspected terrorist hideouts. Still, to attack a city with sarin, you would probably...