Survivor 101.If you have the misfortune of finding yourself drifting on a raft at sea or desperately foraging for food in the deep woods Deep Woods is the culfest of the Madras Christian College, Chennai, India. It is normally held in the 2nd week of December. it is a three day event with various colleges from all over the city participating. , you'd be lucky if you remembered to bring your SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. Survival Guide: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea (HarperCollins, $19.95). John "Lofty" Wiseman of the British Special Air Service provides a compendium of esoteric information for the stranded: cook ants for at least six minutes, zigzag when fleeing a rhino, and don't urinate urinate /uri·nate/ (u´ri-nat) to discharge urine. u·ri·nate v. To excrete urine. urinate to void urine. while swimming in the Amazon because a catfish might swim up your urethra urethra (y  rē`thrə), canal in most mammals that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body; in the male it also serves as a genital duct. . For the more conventionally adventurous, Wiseman provides basic information, with color illustrations, of poisonous and edible fruits and fungi and of dangerous snakes. He illustrates knots and covers first aid. And for the stay-at-home, he provides food for the imagination. What if I did get stranded? Could I survive?
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