relieved to find out that German would take on their story. "He did something, and he fought for us," Goodwin said. "And he is 100 percent our hero."They could have never imagined that just five months after meeting him, their hero would be dead.THE ASSASSINATION OF JEFF GERM...
One way to extend the reach of a basic beam bridge is to reinforce it—and engineers have found the best way to do that is with a system of diagonal, triangular bars on the sides, which are called trusses. There are many ways of arranging trusses to support a bridge, giving a variety...
After several seconds, run the display cpu-defend statistics command to view statistics about the packets sent to the CPU. If there are too many packets of a protocol, determine whether it is normal depending on the networking. If not, there is a high probability that the switch is under...
After Evernote’s introduction in 2014 of a business-card-scanning feature that I still rely on, I had not seen many new features useful to my own work. And I was still experiencing too many note-synchronization glitches between my devices, despite the vow of new management to focus on th...
and the project that bears its name is considered by many to be one of the most complex -- and expensive -- engineering feats in American history. The "Big Dig" is actually several different projects in one, including a brand-new bridge and several tunnels. One key tunnel, completed in ...
To bridge the gap between the first two years of college earned at the two-year institution level, many community colleges forge bachelor's degree pathways with local colleges and universities. "At Bucks County Community College, we have negotiated a wide variety of ...
Martino was not a gambler, had hardly ever placed a bet in his life. But he'd remained close friends after high school with both Donaghy and Battista, who, in turn, were never that close with each other. Martino, in that way, was about to become the unlikely bridge upon which the co...
You've called 911, but someone needs help immediately. Whether it's saving someone from a burning car, fighting a fire or rescuing trapped victims from a collapsed building, ordinary people can learn the simple skills to do extraordinary things.
The setting for the second GOP debate is Ronald Reagan's presidential library in Simi Valley,California. Many of the Republican hopefuls have made recent trips to the library for its “A Time for Choosing” speaking series, named for Reagan'spivotal 1964 speechon behalf of GOP presi...
Bridge inAustin, Texas, will eat up to 30,000 pounds of insects in a single night. A Mexican free-tail colony in Bracken Cave, Texas, containing more than 20 million bats, will eat roughly 200 tons of insects in a night. These bats, and many other species, feed on insects that ...