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The remains of a missing soldier in Iraq have been identified.

If You Are Worried About Spacejunk Falling On Your Farm

This guy has some real life experience with that problem.

“I was riding out to check some cattle, and I came around the corner and there it was in a paddock,” Stirton told Reuters on Friday.

“I know a lot about sheep and cattle but I don’t know much about satellites. But I would say it is a fuel cell off some stage of a rocket.”

He said the object was hollow, and covered in a carbon-fiber material. He has contacted some U.S.-based aerospace companies to try to find out what the object really is.

Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum said it was not uncommon for people to find spacejunk in remote areas of Australia.

If You Want To See A Blind Archer In Action

Just see how well this lady did.

Thrilled Tilly Trotter, 74, said: “The second arrow made such a noise going into the back of the first that I thought I had hit the ceiling.

“Then I heard people jumping up and down and shouting. But it was a bit of a fluke.”

If You Are An Alcoholic Lab Rat

Your luck has improved.

In the study, the researchers induced liver cirrhosis in rats and then injected them with the vitamin A-laced molecules.

“We were able to completely eradicate the fibrosis by injecting this agent … we cured them of the cirrhosis,” Yoshiro Niitsu at the Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine in Japan said in a telephone interview.

“The liver is such an important organ, after you remove the fibrosis, the liver by itself starts to regenerate tissues. So liver damage is reversible.”

Explaining how the damage reversal came about, Niitsu said: “Liver is itself responsible for the production and deposition of collagen, it also secretes certain enzymes that dissolve collagen … dissolve the fibrosis which has already been deposited in the tissues.”

Dith Pran Has Passed Away

He was a survivor of the Cambodian Killing Fields who went on to document the genocide that led to the movie in the 1980s.

With thousands being executed simply for manifesting signs of intellect or Western influence — even wearing glasses or wristwatches — Dith survived by masquerading as an uneducated peasant, toiling in the fields and subsisting on as little as a mouthful of rice a day, and whatever small animals he could catch.

After Dith moved to the U.S., he became a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and founded the Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project, dedicated to educating people on the history of the Khmer Rouge regime.

He was “the most patriotic American photographer I’ve ever met, always talking about how he loves America,” said AP photographer Paul Sakuma, who knew Dith through their work with the Asian American Journalists Association.

Schanberg described Dith’s ordeal and salvation in a 1980 magazine article titled “The Death and Life of Dith Pran.” Schanberg’s reporting from Phnom Penh had earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1976.

In light of comedians and “satirists” who call themselves brave for sitting behind a desk and hurling insults, knowing full well that they will not face recourse for their words or actions, Mr. Pran was truly brave.