The catastrophic variant of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is the most severe form and is characterized by clinical evidence of multiple organ involvement developing over a short period of time, histopathological evidence of small vessel occlusions and laboratory confirmation of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) as assessed in 2003 in the international consensus statement on the classifica...

Large, infrequent wildfires cause dramatic ecological and economic impacts. Consequently, they deserve special attention and analysis. The economic significance of large fires is indicated by the fact that approximately 94 percent of fire suppression costs on U.S. Forest Service land during the period 19802002 resulted from a mere 1.4 percent of the fires (Strategic Issues Panel on Fire Suppres...