Elder blow

Even the originator was hesitant to blow his own trumpet. In 1917, the elder Bragg published an essay on physical research and the way of its application , in a multiauthor book entitled Science and the Nation (Bragg 1917). Although he writes at some length on Rdntgen and the discovery of X-rays, he includes not a word on X-ray diffraction, five years after the discoveries by his son and himself. 

The hollowed-out twigs have been used as flutes, shepherd s pipes, taps for maple trees in syruping, blow guns and elk calls. Elder twigs are very flexible and thus used to make baskets. 

Older persons often create miniature social networks one neighbor with limited vision cooks, while the person next door uses her wheelchair van to shop. After the multiple hurricane strikes on Florida in 2004, many of these networks were torn apart, their members separated to widely scattered Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailer parks. Such calamities could befall any group, of course, but there is no doubt that disaster deals a crueler blow to the elderly than to other segments of society. 

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