Fire sprinkler fails tests raise safety alarms nationwide
Millions of Omega sprinkler heads used in hospitals hotels and apartments fail to activate in lab and real fires. Fairfax County orders testing or replacement. tests show 31 percent UL failure and 35 percent in local county tests with pressures as low as 5 to 7 psi.
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Airfax
U.S
Omega
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department
Omegas
Frank Teevan
Fairfax County
Teevan
Carl Maurice
Central Sprinkler Corp
Lansdale
Omega Heads
Glenn A. Gaines
Washington
Gaines
Central
Fairfax
Marriott International
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Canandaigua
N.Y
Ken McKinnon
Department of Veterans Affairs
McKinnon
Fort Wayne
Ind
Maryland
Rocco Gabriele
Consumer Products Safety Commission
National Institutes of Health
NIH
Meyer
Central Sprinkler
National Fire Sprinkler Association
The
Marriott
National Fire Protection Association
Underwriters Laboratories
Grover W. Smiley
Virginia Fire Prevention Association
Convention-goers pack light for this trip
About 1,500 attendees gather at Live Oak Resort northwest of Houston for the 66th annual convention of the American Association for Nude Recreation. Members, from Tulsa to California, discuss dues, lobbying, and public relations while navigating pocketsless attire and practical gear.
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Ashington
Texas
Live Oak
Houston
American Association For
America
Leoniie Moore
Tulsa
Okla
Canada
Alaska
Roslyn Scheer
Kissimmee
Fla
Nate Kates
San Bernadino
Calif
Association
Ms. Moore
American Sunbathers Association
Larry Hilderbrand
Tehran killer whipped and hanged in public
Ali Reza Khoshruy Karan Kordiyeh, 28, known as the Tehran Vampire, was whipped by relatives before being hanged from a yellow mobile crane in a public execution witnessed by thousands and the families of nine female victims including a mother and daughter.
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Tehran
Iran
Ali Reza Khoshruy Karan Kordiyeh
Kordiyeh
Trapped riders rescued in Peru after four day blizzard
Rescuers plowed through lashing snow to free hundreds of bus passengers trapped for four days by a freak Peruvian Andes storm. Six people died as five feet of snow dumped on Negro Mayo on a mountain road 290 miles southeast of Lima, leaving travelers without food or heat.
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Lima
Peru
Negro Mayoc
Water shortage alarms Mir crew as Atlantis mission eyed
NASA officials warn Mir could run dry by late September if Atlantis is delayed. Water for 1 1/2 to two months depends on a functioning water reclamation system and a timely shuttle mission. Power problems and a ruptured module compound risk as cosmonauts prepare for a spacewalk to try to restore life support.
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APE Canaveral
Fla
Russia
Mir
Frank Culbertson
NASA
Atlantis
Michael Foale
Culbertson
Spektr
Space junk nearly collides with shuttle satellite in orbit
A 500-pound piece of space junk passed within 1 1/2 miles of Germany built ozone mapping satellite, dropped by space shuttle Discovery. NASA and German mission managers warned the near miss could have destroyed the 7,700-pound satellite. Spaced tracking and tiny thruster maneuvers were planned, with retrieval slated for Saturday as mission ends.
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APE Canaveral
Fila
Space Shuttle
Discovery
Konrad Moritz
Earth
U.S. Space Command
NASA
Ner
Vously
Moritz
Kyle Herring
Space Command
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C. Tova
Michael Graczyk
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Philadelphia
Ottawa Herald
Marcia Dunn
AP Aerospace
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Ottawa
Sttawa
Lae Ues
Utawae
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