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Oil, Gas Companies Fund Wyo. Ambulance
PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) -- Mike Becker works long days as a welder at a natural gas field so remote that the only light at night comes from scattered drilling rigs that operate 24 hours a day. Becker used to worry about what would happen if he was injured. The nearest hospital is more than an hour's drive away, and it can take more than 30 minutes just for the ambulance to arrive. Now, with the help of four oil and gas companies, a specialized ambulance has been stationed near the fields, drastically cutting emergency response times. "It's good to have something like that out there, just being that much closer to where things could happen," Becker said. Many oil and gas fields around the world are located in remote areas like southwest Wyoming or on platforms far offshore.
Havlat scores 2 for Blackhawks in win
Martin Havlat scored twice, and Patrick Sharp and rookie Jonathan Toews each had a goal and two assists to help the Chicago Blackhawks end a season-high, four-game losing streak with a 6-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night.Tuomo Ruutu and Duncan Keith also scored for Chicago in a physical contest punctuated with several open-ice hits and a pair of fights. Patrick Kane, the NHL's leading rookie scorer, added two assists.After missing 22 games with a shoulder injury, Havlat has five goals and three assists in seven games.The Kings' Michal Handzus scored and assisted on a goal by Patrick O'Sullivan. Anze Kopitar also scored for Los Angeles, extending his point streak to eight games (six goals, six assists).Chicago's Nikolai Khabibulin made 25 saves.Jean-Sebastien Aubin started in goal for Los Angeles, but was replaced by Jonathan Quick late in the first period after allowing three goals on nine shots.
Fiddler Christian Howes visits
To fiddling savant Christian Howes, bluegrass is, in many ways, a distant cousin of jazz. That's a statement likely to set pickers and grinners around the globe to scratching their head, but Howes, a Yamaha performing artist who has been called one of the best jazz violinists in the world, said jazz includes any style allowing for improvisation and creativity. "When you think of ... somebody like Sam Bush and Bela Fleck, who have been on the front edge, pushing the borders of bluegrass, in my mind, they are essentially jazz musicians, too," the New York-based performer said. "They just speak a different dialect." When Christian Howes' Fiddle Evolution -- co-starring Billy Contreras (fiddle) and Taylor Coker (bass) -- comes to Barking Legs on Saturday, Chattanoogans will have a chance to see the trio paint an aural picture of the jazz family tree.
Preserving a Painful Chapter of WWII
GRANADA, Colo. Bob Fuchigami was 12 years old when he and his family were told to leave their 20-acre farm in northern California. The peach trees that his immigrant parents had planted were about to yield their first big crop. It was May 1942, five months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Fuchigami and his parents and siblings were among more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans ordered to report to internment camps. The Fuchigamis ended up at one in dusty southeastern Colorado. He and his family, like many others held in the camps during World War II, never returned to their previous lives and were left with only memories. And the 10 camps themselves, quickly dismantled at the end of the war, also became memories. Now, the National Park Service is asking former internees like Fuchigami how it can preserve what is left of the camps and the stories they hold.
Price/Sales Ratio Points to Drug Tester's Stock
Drug makers have seen the productivity of their research spending decline, and are under pressure to outsource work to specialists who can reduce costs, speed up results or both. Stevens reckons that the market for clinical research companies will swell to $24 billion in 2010 from $14 billion in 2006, and that drug makers will boost the portion of research spending that they outsource to between 30% and 35% over the next three to five years, from about 25% today. .
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