Since then, lots of schools have beefed up their crisis drills and preparedness procedures.

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Initial drills by Serengeti have shown extensive copper-gold anomalies over a widespread area.

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Both Bruyninckx and McGreskin have embraced "overload" drills to help tune players' brains, where some might be asked to speak in different languages during fitness training while others are asked to toss a tennis ball around and call out colors during sessions involving the football.

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However, annual activities have been mainly confined to periodic fire drills and publicity activities that are usually limited to schools and government agencies.

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Part of the horror is school officials were aware of the potential danger, as remote as it may have seemed, and had practiced emergency drills, including the locking of classroom doors and the like in the event of an attack on the school.

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China and Russia have asked South Korea to reconsider holding the drills.

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In a developing country like Turkey, where stringent building regulations exist but are seldom applied, and where governments have more pressing tasks than the organisation of earthquake drills, a natural disaster on this scale will unfortunately almost always kill many people.

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He even went as far as participating in preseason football drills at Louisiana State University where he would have been a two sport athlete.

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The hospital had finished trauma drills before with mannequins, and several of the doctors, including Dr. Velmahos, have worked in war-torn countries.

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