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...struggle to find a classroom is just the tip of the iceberg for a school that is also exceedingly short on laboratory and office space. SPH is crunched by more than 100,000 square feet, a number that will skyrocket over the coming years, according to Associate Dean for Administration and Operations Paul S. Riccardi...
Half of battlefield deaths occur within 30 minutes of wounding, largely on account of blood loss. But survival rates skyrocket if a casualty can get to a medical facility within the so-called golden hour after an injury. There are four major U.S. military medical outposts in Iraq, and the medical corps' critical mission is to keep wounded soldiers alive until they can be taken to one of them...
...Regardless of the BEST time (after stabilization, if that's even possible) Bush will see that we are out of Iraq by next year, probably August or September. Then, he will again celebrate "mission accomplished", Americans will celebrate, polls will skyrocket, and he will get his landslide. After a few months, Iraq will slide into a theocracy or another secular dictatorship, but we will ignore it, just as we ignore Afghanistan today. Joy Williams Allen, Texas...
...this week’s totals will most likely prove to be more of the exception than the rule. With a return to conference games against more modest Ivy opponents—including bottom-dweller Cornell next week—expect to see passing efficiency ratings and offensive yardage skyrocket back to more familiar digits...
With fewer than 300 known SARS deaths so far, the worldwide toll is tiny compared with, say, the 3 million people who died of AIDS last year. But if SARS continues to spread, its numbers could skyrocket. Its overall death rate of about 6% is far lower than that of AIDS, Ebola or malaria, but if enough people catch the illness, even a low rate could cause a catastrophe. The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19 had a death rate of less than 3%, but so many people became infected that it killed more than 20 million people in just...