BEAUFORT‚ Nc. — As Keith Rittmaster walked out of his trailer--arms filled with shovels‚ buckets and brushes--14 volunteers gathered around him. It was the day of the big dig‚ and Rittmaster led his group through a secret‚ Nancy Drew-style forest entryway into what he calls the “dolphin graveyard.” This group of biologists and citizen scientists came to exhume a skeleton of Moe the bottlenose dolphin‚ which Rittmaster buried nearly two years earlier. For marine mammals that dwell deep in the ocean
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Anxhela Ruvina Mrs. Hoag Critical Writing and Evaluative Reading 29 October 2012 Cancer‚ Gender‚ and Environmental Justice As of today‚ cancer is one of the utmost feared diseases in the world. In the early 1990s‚ approximately 6 million new cancer incidents propagated and more than 4 million mortalities arose from cancers. Cancer is a disease that is killing individuals all around the world. More than one-fifth of all fatalities were triggered by cancer and its been predicted‚ by the American
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world is fresh and new and beautiful‚ full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision‚ that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring‚ is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. ~ Rachel Carson The year was 1920. The First World War ended and the women’s movement began to take off. 1920 also marked the first year of the American beauty pageant. This was a groundbreaking year‚ as women from all over the United States were given the
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Humanities 1100 Are Humans a Part of Nature or Somehow Apart From It? To think of Nature‚ you must first define it. I looked it up in an old set of encyclopedias my parents had in our basement. It said that the term "nature" has been used in various inconsistent senses‚ corresponding more or less to the different attitudes that thinkers adopted towards the material part of the world in relation to the rest. It then goes on about how different philosophers from the different eras defined it
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APES Midterm Exam Review 1. Earth (chapter 5) a. Atmosphere Oxygen (21%)‚ Nitrogen (78%)‚ Argon CO2 Water Vapor Helium (1%) Layers (from closest to farthest) Troposphere (weather) Stratosphere (ozone) Mesosphere (meteors) Thermosphere (Aurora) Exosphere (satillites) Weather Factors include cloud coverage‚ precipitation‚ temperature‚ temperature‚ humidity‚ winds‚ air pressure Climate Factors include elevation‚ proximity to water‚ distance to poles/equator b. Biogeochemical Cycles
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Chapter 39 Terms to Know * Stagflation: during the 60’s & 70’s‚ the U.S. was suffering from 5.3% inflation & 6% unemployment; refers to the unusual economic situation in which an economy is suffering both from inflation & from stagnation of its industrial growth. * Vietnamization: President Richard Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War‚ involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops & replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces. * Silent Majority: phrase
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although the firm has kept on growing since then‚ the rate of growth is now much slower. Connie Carson‚ who has been with the company since its start‚ is the head of the Furniture Design Department. Dick Prindles‚ who also joined the firm at that time‚ is now the company president and Connie’s boss. The two are good friends and have together witnessed the company’s growth to its present size. Carson is regarded as one of the pillars of this organization‚ because of the many contributions she has
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firm (Carson Company) in the financial markets. It illustrates how financial markets and institutions are integrated and facilitate the flow of funds in the business and financial environment. At the end of every chapter‚ this exercise provides a list of questions about Carson Company that require the application of concepts learned within the chapter‚ as related to the flow of funds. Carson Company is a large manufacturing firm in California that was created 20 years ago by the Carson family
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Cited: "Alternative Cancer Treatment | Cancer Cure | Cancer Remedies." Do GMO Foods Cause Cancer? The Cancer Industry‚ 30 Mar. 2012. Web. 26 Apr. 2012. Arimi‚ Joshua Carson‚ Rachel‚ and Lois Darling. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin‚ 1962. Print. "Do I Help Conserve the Environment by Eating Organic Food?" Natural & Organic Health: Food Benefits‚ Directory‚ Nutritional Value. Rural Tech Services‚ Jan. 2012. Web. 26
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FILIPINO SCIENTIST Julian Banzon - Filipino Chemist: Filipino chemist‚ Julian Banzon researched methods of producing alternative fuels. Julian Banzon experimented with the production of ethyl esters fuels from sugarcane and coconut‚ and invented a means of extracting residual coconut oil by a chemical process rather than a physical process. Julian Banzon - Degrees: * BS in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines - 1930 * Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from Iowa State University
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