Moreover, the 1-5 scale used by the center to rate fire danger and preparedness was raised from 3 to 4.

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At the center of the Skylanders universe are cartoon monster heroes, including the fire-breathing dragon Spyro, who has already starred in several of his own games.

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Marco Iacoboni, a lab director at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, says when people see a smile, so-called mirror neurons fire in their brain and evoke a similar neural response as if they were smiling themselves.

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It lives on in the Cross of Steel made from the World Trade Center beams, placed on a Pentagon-shaped platform that rests proudly outside the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department. (Applause.) That Cross of Steel is an enduring symbol of the steel and the spine of this region, and the spine of this country.

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Similarly, data from the National Interagency Fire Center show the number of U.S. wildfires is on a 35-year downward trend.

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One was a 1.8-metric ton British air bomb that could have wiped out the city center, according to the local fire brigade.

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Wal-Mart will also set up an independent call center for garment workers to report unsafe conditions and conduct fire safety training for every worker in the Bangladesh factories that make clothes for the U.S. retailing giant.

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