Kayaks: Choose your craft with care. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | May 18, 1994| | Copyright
    There is a place on the Welsh coast where the tide funnels in between the shore and an island, filling the bay like a big bowl. When the tide turns, water spurts out through the gap at 9 knots, creating waves as big and fast as the white water on the turbulent Colorado River. 
    ``I swear I think my heart stopped,'' Stan Chladek says in his rich accent as he relives a wild sea kayak ride through that gap. ``I was really scared. And that was with a neap tide. We could never have done it with a spring tide.'' 
    Chladek is a former member of the Czechoslovakian national kayak ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Dysentery.(Life Extension)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin ; Byline: DR. GARY S. SY DYSENTERY is the body's response to an unwanted...bloody diarrhea is called amebic dysentery. Infections of shigella bacteria...shigellosis, can lead to bacillary dysentery. While cases of amebic dysentery...
Cultural context of dysentery has implications for vaccine introduction.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter ; ...The cultural and social contexts of dysentery have implications for the introduction of a new vaccine. "Dysentery, a severe form of diarrheal disease...beliefs and behaviors associated with dysentery. The explanatory model of dysentery...
Investigating the effects of climate variations on bacillary dysentery incidence in northeast China using ridge regression and hierarchical cluster analysis.(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Infectious Diseases ; ...and old people [1, 2]. Bacillary dysentery is an infectious disease of the intestinal...effects of climate variations on bacillary dysentery incidence have gained more concerns recently...accuracy of correlation with bacillary dysentery incidence. As a remedy, the improved...
Treatment of diarrhea and dysentery in Thailand described.
Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly ; ...net) -- Treatment of diarrhea and dysentery in Kaengkhoi district, Saraburi province...passive surveillance study of diarrhea and dysentery at health centers and hospitals in Kaengkhoi...where they sought care for diarrhea and dysentery in children aged less than five years...
Dysentery Is the Newest Threat to Rwandan Refugees
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday ; ...the camps could cause an epidemic of dysentery. NPR's Anne Cooper is in Goma and...the treatment tent. Moratayasoni has dysentery, the latest scourge of the refugee camp...the disturbing rise in the number of dysentery cases seen in the treatment centers...
Dysentery Strikes Rwandans as Cholera Deaths Ebb
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...disease that could claim even more lives - dysentery. Ray Wilkinson, spokesman for the U...however, about the threat from bacterial dysentery, which, like cholera, is spread by...humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders said dysentery is more deadly than cholera, usually...
Dysentery Now Claiming the Lives of Rwandan Refugees
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition ; ...The World Health Organization says dysentery has replaced cholera as the main problem...me now is NPR's Mary Kay Magistad. Dysentery usually is related to contaminated water...bacteria that causes both cholera and dysentery. I guess the good news is that the cholera...
Dysentery kills 2 in southern Nepal
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency ; Dysentery kills 2 in southern Nepal KATHMANDU...Xinhua) -- Two persons have died of dysentery in southern Nepali district Rautahat...others in the VDC are suffering from dysentery, saidBarma. They are being treated...
Bacillary Dysentery Cases on Sharp Rise.
Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) ; ...a much increased number of bacillary dysentery cases this year, health authorities...persons were infected with bacillary dysentery in the first four months of this year...students tested positive for bacillary dysentery after they, along with 515 students...
Dysentery outbreak in Trece Martires already contained.(Provincial News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin ; Byline: JENNY MANONGDO The dysentery outbreak in Trece Martires City...2007. No death has been recorded. Dysentery is caused by bacteria, called Shigella...contaminated food or water. The dysentery outbreak in Trece Martires City is...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Kayaks: Choose your craft with care. (Originated ..."