Although these collagen patches can be used to treat the wounds of soldiers and burn patients, they are more commonly prescribed for people who suffer from peripheral artery disease, pressure ulcers and diabetes.

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"When you take off from Daytona until May, there's so many things you need to orientate yourself with something as simple as just being able to see the water temperature and water pressure gauges in your peripheral without having to pay attention to them, understanding how the cars move when other cars come around you, " Waltrip said.

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Both French and German leaders, along with the European Central Bank, are putting pressure on so-called peripheral economies to extend austerity measures to try to balance their budgets.

BBC: German economic growth slows sharply

The European sovereign debt crisis has already extended beyond the Old Continent and claimed victims in the U.S. MF Global, headed former Goldman Sachs chief Jon Corzine, fell because of its exposure to peripheral debt, while Jefferies came after pressure for its exposure (which it cut in half over the weekend).

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Concerns over the debt ceiling debate in the U.S., along with sovereign debt woes in Europe sending peripheral debt to nearly unsustainable levels, have put pressure on risk assets across the board and sent investors fleeing for safe-haven assets like gold and the Swiss franc.

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In order to determine the location of the leak, the crew had been sealing off small peripheral modules of the space station while Mission Control looked for accelerated pressure drops inside the sealed-off sections.

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