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After reаding the stоry, “Time fоr а Herо,” аnswer the following questions. Time for a Hero Brian M. Thomsen The man on the table began to stir. Good. He’s coming around. He’s our only hope! The two doctors in attendance immediately positioned themselves on each side of him, as he blinked his eyes, and began to regain consciousness. “Thank God you’re alright,” offered the older doctor. “We didn’t know what to do. Why, if you hadn’t come around, we would have had to . . .” “Of course he came around,” the younger doctor interrupted. “He’s never failed us before.” “Where am I?” said the patient, trying to shake off the last strains of grogginess. “What happened?” “You’re in a special mobile military hospital. I’m Doctor Kirschenbaum,” said the older doctor. “The marines brought you here right after you passed out. I’ve been watching you for the past two hours hoping you ‘d come around. It’s not as if we could treat you or anything, given your advanced physiology (a body’s characteristics) and all.” “. . . But we knew you’d come around,” continued the other. “I’m Dr. Parker, and we knew it would take more than a direct hit on the forehead from a bazooka shell to stop you.” “Huh?” said the patient, not quite sure if he was really coming around or just trapped in some bizarre waking dream. “The bazooka shell,” repeated Parker. “Don’t you remember?” “No. I don’t remember anything. This all must be some dream. Getting hit in the head would kill an ordinary man . . . probably blow him to bits. No, I’m just not awake yet. This is all just a dream,” he added, the pounding in his head becoming more and more noticeable. “I’m going to just close my eyes, go back to sleep, and wake up later when I’m not so delirious.” “You can’t do that,” insisted Dr. Kirschenbaum. “We need you. Surely you must remember the crisis . . . your mission . . . what you have to do . . .” “What do I have to do?” he asked, hoping that this dream would soon be over. “Save the world, of course,” Kirschenbaum insisted. “You must remember. So many lives are at stake.” “I don’t even remember my name,” the patient realized, now painfully awake and aware of his own befuddlement. The two doctors were shocked. “He doesn’t remember his name,” Parker said to Kirschenbaum. “He doesn’t remember his mission,” Kirschenbaum said to Parker; then, after a brief inspiration added, “You don’t suppose he has amnesia, (loss of memory) do you?” “Wait a second,” the patient insisted, anger replacing his confusion. “He really doesn’t know who he is,” Kirschenbaum said to no one in particular, perhaps to himself, perhaps to his patient. “Who am I?” he demanded, the threat of violence barely masked in his voice. “Why you’re Meteor Man,” Kirschenbaum answered, “and time is running out, and you have to save the world.” . . . . . . . . . . . . For the next few minutes, Doctors Parker and Kirschenbaum carefully reassured the patient known as Meteor Man of his real identity. They told him the now-famous story that had been immortalized in comic books, cartoons, and Sunday features, of how a meteor fell from the sky, and after seven days of cooling cracked open, giving birth to a super-infant, hatched like a chick from an egg. Raised in secret by a retired five-star general and his wife, the super-infant matured and eventually became Meteor Man, strength of a thousand, indestructible, and savior of the planet. “Surely you must remember the time you averted disaster by extending the course of the Missouri River to put out the raging fires in southern Oregon?” insisted Dr. Parker. “Or the time you outwitted the deadly brain-stealing ETs from Alpha Centauri?” added Kirschenbaum. “Or when you single-handedly shielded all of Las Vegas from an atomic bomb blast when you smothered the explosion with your own body,” continued Parker adding, “and lived.” “And lived?” repeated the patient known as Meteor Man in disbelief. “Of course,” added Dr. Kirschenbaum; then, chuckling, he said, “And who’d have thought that a little thing like a bazooka shell would cause amnesia?” “I don’t believe any of this!” said the patient. “But you have to,” said Kirschenbaum calmly. “You’ve never failed us before, and you are our only hope.” A strange sense of well-being seemed to wash over the confused patient. Our only hope. It sounded so familiar . . . but who could believe these fantastic tales of his exploits? And no one in the real world would ever be called Meteor Man. Either he was now in the hands of delusionary (holding false beliefs) madmen, the victim of some bizarre practical joke, or he himself had gone crazy . . . or, there was one other alternative, most bizarre of them all—maybe they were right. He was their only hope. The whole phrase felt right . . . but it couldn’t be. Trying to maintain a certain nonthreatening calm, the patient responded to his doctors. “Look,” he offered, “I’d like to help, and I’d do anything I could to save the world, but I’m just one man.” “More than a man,” interrupted Parker. “Whatever,” he responded, quickly tiring of the annoying little doctor’s interruptions, and clarifications. “But what is the crisis, and what can I do about it?” “We’ve just received an update from our men on the front,” answered Kirschenbaum, now all businesslike and efficient. “The terrorist forces guarding the plant have been subdued by a black beret(group trained to deal with those who might revolt against authority, this group characterized by wearing black, flat caps insurgency team) casualties listed at seventy-five percent.” “An acceptable number, given the situation,” said the annoying Dr. Parker, adding, “so you have nothing to worry about from those migraine-inducing bazookas for the time being.” “We’ve since discovered that they’ve planted an Alunarium bomb, which when detonated will create an implosion (a violent, inward collapse) that will generate a black hole instigating China Syndrome (the theory that a nuclear meltdown could sink through the earth to reach China) at an almost instantaneous rate which will tear the Earth asunder from core to crust.” “And what can I do about it?” asked the patient known as Meteor Man. “It’s really quite simple,” replied Kirschenbaum, producing a mechanical box not unlike an old-fashioned Geiger counter. “All you have to do is carry this magnetic wave transmitter into the plant. The waves will erase the programming of the Alunarium bomb, making detonation impossible.” “What’s the catch?” asked Meteor Man, knowing that one had to exist. “There isn’t any catch, at least not for you,” answered Parker. Kirschenbaum explained, “The terrorists flooded the plant area with the coolant from the atomic core. The intense levels of radioactivity would kill any of us, but you’re immune.” Parker added, “I remember your comment to the press when you smothered the atomic bomb. You said, ‘I feel like I’ve been out in the sun a little too long.’ Isn’t that a scream! A lethal dose of radiation to us gives you a mild case of sunstroke. Walking into the contaminated plant should be a piece of cake.” “You expect me to believe I’m impervious (untouchable, immune) to radiation,” said the patient. “Of course,” said the annoying Parker. “You’re Meteor Man.” Parker gestured towards the patient’s chest. The patient looked down, and for the first time noticed the large M insignia that covered most of his chest. He seemed to be wearing some sort of garish costume made out of a spandex-like material that hugged the contours of his muscularly masculine physique with a sheen of gold and silver. His first thought was that he looked like something out of a comic book, but then he caught himself before he said anything, realizing that this would have been just the sort of reaction Parker and Kirschenbaum would have wanted. “I suppose this is my costume?” he commented. “Known by one and all,” replied Parker. “The savior of mankind, and our only hope in our darkest and direst times of need.” “But dressing in a costume,” he added, “doesn’t necessarily mean I am some sort of superhero who can fly through the air, leap tall bridges, see through walls . . .” “You can’t do any of those things,” Kirschenbaum interrupted. “Your body is impervious to damagefrom bullets, radiation waves, laser beams . . .” “But not direct hits on the forehead by bazooka shells,” he added. “Apparently,” Kirschenbaum conceded, “your recuperative stamina (ability to recover) is one hundred times that of a mortal man. Your strength is that of a thousand, your intellect is off the IQ chart . . .” “I don’t feel like a genius.” “It’s probably a by-product of the amnesia,” offered the annoying Parker. “I wouldn’t worry about that.” “I somehow figured you wouldn’t,” he replied curtly. Kirschenbaum looked at his watch and became more concerned. “Meteor Man,” he said gravely, “we are running out of time. I know you are confused, and it all sounds far-fetched, but you are our only hope, and time is running out. What do I have to do to convince you that you are who we say you are?” Meteor Man was touched by his earnestness and concern. If time was running out, and he was their only hope, then he would have to do something . . . but what if they were wrong? He didn’t feel like some sort of meteor-spawn from outer space. “Dr. Kirschenbaum,” he offered, “I really would like to help you, but it all sounds so bizarre. No sane person would believe that he was some sort of superhero.” “Of course not,” interrupted the annoying Dr. Parker. “You’re one of a kind. That is why you are our only hope.” Both the patient and Kirschenbaum ignored Parker’s latest cliché (an overused expression) outburst. Kirschenbaum considered the situation for a moment, and proposed a solution, saying, “If I can prove to you that you are indeed Meteor Man, our invincible hero, then would you save the day?” “Sure,” said the patient, really wanting to help, and also to regain his identity. Kirschenbaum raised his hand to his face and lightly brushed his moustache, seeming to be in some sort of intense thought. The glow of inspiration illuminated his face, as if he had just arrived at a solution. Dropping his hand from his face to his chest, he reached into his lab coat, pulled out a .44 Magnum, and quickly fired off five shots point-blank into the chest of the patient he called Meteor Man. Meteor Man had almost no time to react, taking a quick deep breath as he felt the dull impact of the shells against his chest, not even noticing that instinctively his hand had tried to move to block the bullets’ impact. He felt no pain, no harm. He was speechless. The bullets had impacted, but had not penetrated. Looking down at his hand, he felt a peculiar sensation of warmth. There in the palm of his hand were five shells, tips slightly flattened and worse for wear from their impact with his chest. “You see?” said Kirschenbaum. “Bullets bounce off you, and though you don’t consciously remember how to use your powers, your body and your subconscious do, as evidenced by your catching the shells at super-speed.” Meteor Man just stared at the still-warm shells in his hand. “Come here,” said Kirschenbaum, continuing his quest to prove to his patient that he was indeed invulnerable. “Please put your hand down here on the table.” Meteor Man dully complied. Dr. Kirschenbaum then took out a surgical saw, turned it on, and proceeded to file down the high-speed blade on each of the fingers of the patient’s right hand. In no time at all, the steel blade was reduced to a pile of metal shavings, while Meteor Man’s fingers and skin remained unharmed. Meteor Man’s eyes moved back and forth from this unscathed right hand to the shell-laden palm of his left hand. Dr. Kirschenbaum guided him over to a telemonitor (display screen for televised or computerized photos and information) and said, “Observe.” The monitor clicked on. The Update News Channel was tuned in. A stern-faced anchorman was in the middle of a story: “ . . . there is still no word on the condition of Meteor Man, who was apparently dazed when he was hit in the head by a bazooka shell. The thought-to-be invulnerable hero has faced many greater adversaries before (visual montage-a rapid succession of images-of stock news footage of his earlier exploits), including the now famous stifling of an atomic bomb that threatened to level Las Vegas. America wishes Meteor Man a speedy recovery . . .” . . . . . . . . . . . .
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