Documents. 1  Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World: guidelines for natural disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation. 2  Report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, 18â22 January 2005 in PDF format. 3  Timetable for Kobe conference in PDF format.
Bessie Blount, was a physical therapist who worked with soldiers injured in W.W.II. Her war service inspired her to patent a device, in 1951, that allowed amputees to feed themselves.
Ralph J. Stolle, 91, an Inventor Who Made Pop Tops Practical. Ralph J. Stolle, a prolific inventor and businessman, died on Jan. 13 at his farm near Lebanon, Ohio. He was 91 and had cancer, said Nelson Schwab Jr., his lawyer. Mr. Stolle, who held more than 50 patents, developed machinery that made mass production of pop-top beverage cans economical and practical.