European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 stars and stripes tuesday March 20 2007 2 Day rising above an Avalanche can save your life quote oath Day Minim is a sort of lovable cuddly Little character Why not have him at your party Mark Povinelli a Dwarf actor on the popularity of hiring Little people for events including Bachelor parties and corporate gatherings see Story on Page 8 list coming soon on did March 20 blood Diamond the Dukes of hazzard the beginning Eragon the nativity Story Rocky Balboa March 27 children of men Happy feet the Pursuit of happiness act coming soon sc6fw on sunday Awakening to Wake boards today in stripes Abby 20 american roundup1617 classified2123 comics1820 crossword19 faces12 horoscope18 utters14 opinion 1415 sports2432 weather13 your money11 q How might skiers caught in a Dow Rush ing Avalanche save themselves by being like a Brazil nut shaken in a Container full of pea nuts what must they carry along in order to do this a with an emergency Avalanche balloon in a Backpack a skier caught in flowing Snow pulls the trigger ing ripcord to inflate the balloon with Nitro Gen Gas from a Cylinder says Jearl Walker in the flying circus of physics this draws in outside air and provides an upward buoyancy Force due to the Gas being less dense than the Snow thus rising near the top of the flow like the Brazil nut in the Container skiers stand a much better Chance of survival the front of an Avalanche might move As fast As 225 Mph the height might be As much As 330 feet As the Snow especially if pow Dery becomes airborne the concentration of particles is diluted the saving Grace for those ballooned skiers strange but True Bill Sones and Rich Sones pad Robert Johnson the Standard Utah a search Andrescu patrol member skis through debris at the scene of an Avalanche q at a birthday party ask the Host for a bal Loon and announce youre going to stick a Nee dle into it without it popping whats your trick a you pull out a Roll of adhesive tape and put a Patch on the balloon then puncture through the Patch ordinarily a pricked bal whats up with explaining customs from around the world q Ive heard the thing about suicide bombers being promised 72 virgins and Para Dise once they die but Ive also heard that it was a mis translation and that it actually Means  get raisins whats up with that a yes youve heard both parts correctly according to some islamic leaders passages in the quran Promise martyrs that upon entering heaven they will receive six dozen hurls which Are defined As Maidens of modest gaze whom neither Man nor Jinni will have touched before them now the meaning of the word Huri is where the prob lems and the raisins arise when trans lated from the arabic it Means More or less Virgin but when translated from syriac languages it Means White raisins Well leave it to your own devices to gauge which virgins or raisins would be More tempt ing to a Martyr the online explainer column from slate Magazine offers an answer to another twist photo illustration by Roni and stripes what happens to a woman who martyrs her self what does she get according to the experts found by slate a woman who martyrs herself gets her husband in heaven those who had multiple husbands could pick which one and some islamic commentators have decreed that an unmarried woman can marry any Man she chooses in Paradise got a question about going son in the Mideast email stripes at Loon tears but if you prevent this till Likely stay intact see the Needle inside q nobody is considered dead until warm and dead whats meant by this wilderness Medicine rules thumb a a person in deep hypothermia following an Accident in extreme cold May lose vital signs but be Revi Vable once inside says Frances Ashcroft in life at the a 29yearold norwegian woman in a skiing Acci Dent was wedged Between rocks and ice and drenched by a Waterfall when rescuers arrived Over an hour later she was 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