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May 3, 2007

Need an Adventure: Remote Area Medical

If you're looking for a life-changing adventure, look no further than Remote Area Medical (RAM ). RAM is a nonprofit, volunteer, airborne medical relief corps providing free health care anywhere in the world that it's needed. They are constantly in search of doctors, nurses, E.M.T.s, pilots, veterinarians, support workers, drivers, mechanics, and other related workers. If you have any skill that could be used to support an expedition your services could probably be used.

In return for your services RAM will offer the adventure of a lifetime. Parachuting into the middle of the rain forest and providing emergency medicine (or support services for our readers who fancy themselves in the MacGyver role), and then hiking, canoing or 4x4ing it back out of the country is a common experience. For those not experienced in skydiving RAM now also offers training through the nonprofit school called "Airdrop Assist".

If working in the Airborne division of RAM sounds too intense, RAM also offers several expeditions that use conventional means to get into a country, however, all locales are remote areas and will require significant skill and dedication to reach a destination even once inside the country. It's not called Remote Area Medical for nothing.

RAM offers several videos of expeditions in action as well as promotional content.

For more information (and applications) visit Remote Area Medical directly.

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May 2, 2007

Corsair Flash Survivor USB 2.0 Flash Drives

The Corsair Flash Survivor drives are perhaps the only real contender in the rugged flash drives niche. These drives are water resistant to 200 meters and boast some shock protection. The casing is aluminum. For me the best feature is a lack of reliance on the ubiquitous click-caps used by nearly every other flash drive. These drives are the ticket if you'd like to protect up to 8GB of data from dust, water, and sudden drops.

The 4GB version retails for $60 and the 8GB version retails for $130. With the larger version you're not only getting more space, but (according to Corsair) higher speed as well.

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