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A Florida man who filmed himself walking on hot thermals in Yellowstone National Park earlier this month has been officially cited for a violation of federal law and ordered to appear in-person at the U.S. District Court in Yellowstone on July 27. Matt Manzari, who told Cowboy State Daily that he created the video as a joke, broke the law by leaving the park’s boardwalk and walking on the thermal features near Old Faithful on July 1. As has been customary in these cases, the defendant must appear in court in-person. The motivational speaker from Clermont, Florida, previously told Cowboy...

Your Old Inkjet Printer Could Aid Burn Victims Susannah Patton, CIO Dec. 2, 2004 Looking for a place to toss your old inkjet printers? A team of scientists working to create human tissue may have a good use for them. Inkjets that are ten years old, they say, are perfectly suited to create sheets of human skin and other tissue that one day may help burn victims and even manufacture organs. Vladimir Mironov, director of the Shared Tissue Engineering Laboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina, is one of the scientists who has rigged Hewlett-Packard and Canon inkjet printers...

The Long Way Home Dec. 3, 2003 Since the war in Iraq began, more than 300 U.S. troops have been killed, and more than 2,100 have been wounded by hostile fire. The fact that seven times more soldiers have been wounded than killed is a tribute to how good American battlefield medicine has gotten at saving lives. But it also means young men and women who would have died of their wounds in earlier wars are coming home. As the casualties began to mount, Correspondent David Martin set out to meet some of the wounded and find out what the...