Boxes of mass trauma supplies, field dressings, medical sponges are being boxed up for storage, unneeded.
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The coral that forms the islands is porous, making them in effect giant sponges.
Abtech is developing generators that will get their power by burning oil-engorged Smart Sponges.
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Some researchers are working on sponges made of carbon nanotubes that soak up hydrogen.
The entrance at the Home Depot, 3 miles away in Hempstead, features fireplace pokers and yellow sponges.
Many adults expect students to be little more than desk-bound data sponges focused on passing college entrance exams.
Condoms and sponges, for example, are not deductible since they are available not by prescription but over the counter.
These form the basis of a typical community of organisms made up of cold corals, sponges and the like.
Tan and Bass rely so heavily on voice-over narration that it sponges up the possibilities for genuine drama and emotion.
Holt Lloyd can now put its eye-catching goo into Prestone's Bullet sponges and sell a whole lot more wax overseas.
But there are a number of alternative methods, various barriers, creams, sponges, IUDs, which do not carry this environmental cost.
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Holt Lloyd can now put its eye-catching colored waxes into Prestone's Bullet sponges and sell a whole lot more wax overseas.
Needing a break from the keyboard, I grabbed a bucket and some sponges and went outside to wash my dinged-up Volkswagen Rabbit.
Instead the EPA is pushing the use of NOx "adsorption" systems, which act like giant sponges, essentially trapping the NOx chemically in the exhaust system.
There are those that say we use way too many sponges, that you can clean things just as well with half that number of sponges.
In a sense, but only if we cling to a linear scale of intelligence that places sea sponges at the bottom and humans at the top.
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However, the unknown species are composed disproportionately of groups of macroinvertebrates, with tens of thousands of species of smaller crustaceans, molluscs (snails) worms and sponges awaiting discovery.
Players spent the first two days complaining about the slow greens, then got hit with sun-baked, pool table-slick greens Saturday, before a Sunday drizzle turned them into soap sponges again.
There are at least 260 species of reef-building coral and 70 species of sponges, plus dugong (a manatee cousin), sharks, manta rays, and about 14 species of whale, dolphin, and sea turtles.
It consists of nationally branded products such as Scotch adhesive tapes, Post-it low-tack adhesive stationary, Scotch-Brite sponges and scrubbing pads, Scotchgard fabric protectors, Nexcare bandages, ACE wraps, and Filtrete air conditioner filters.
Charles Lubin, the Chicago baker who in 1949 named his shop after his eight-year-old daughter, sweated in front of an oven perfecting cheesecakes and sponges that would still taste good after being frozen.
"Workers with little to no experience are overlooked in China, but we find they're like sponges, absorbing quickly and willingly, " says Anthony Ross, general manager of The Opposite House, Swire's boutique hotel in Beijing.
It involves learning where sponges grow, picking the right one, prying an intact sponge from the sea bottom, and using it on their noses to root around the right areas to find fish concealed in the sand.
Afterwards Mr Cai and his assistants damp out the fire using long poles tipped with sponges, and then smudge the lines of ash so that the portrait looks like a huge charcoal drawing on the wall of the museum's reception hall.
There are big bucks to be made in surgical and medical fabrics-gross profits for surgical packs, gowns, caps, masks, sponges, bandages and tape run 25% to 30%-and in allergen- and pollution-trapping filters for heating and air-conditioning (50% to 60%), both made by 3M.
Travel pillows sell because no one wants to use those flimsy white ones the crew tosses on seats in the economy cabin. (Not only are these pillows uncomfortable, they're sponges for other people's germs.) Even sales of the ungainly SkyRest have grown 10% to 20% almost every year since its 2002 launch, according to the manufacturer.
But the harm they do as a destroyer of habitat, by ripping up corals and sponges, and wrecking the nurseries of fish species that grow very slowly, seems out of proportion to any gain from scraping the ocean floor: one zoologist has compared it to cutting down virgin forests, full of rare species, to collect squirrels.
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