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Month: June 2010

World war ii bombs and product defects

World war ii bombs and product defects

The news reports that three men, who were experts at defusing bombs, were killed while trying to defuse World War II bomb discovered during a construction project. The explosion happened in Goettingen, Germany Wednesday. The explosion happened about 45 minutes before the men planned to take the final step. They had delayed doing it to allow a passenger train to go past and just moments before it did, the bomb went off. The team had been working on explosive removal…

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Putting real world values on human beings

Putting real world values on human beings

Mark Rothko was a famous American painter. In 2007, one of his paintings, painted by him in 1950, was sold at Sotheby’s auction house for a record $73 million dollars. Previous sales of his paintings were in the millions as well. His paintings hang in museums all over the world. People placed a value in the millions on some canvas and paint in a frame. The total value of the materials was very likely a small sum, so why would…

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