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- 241: George Lucas
- ... two-hour feature, the director warned him that the studios would only rip him off. He then offered to Lucas that, if he took a permanent job on Finian s and his next screenplay, The Rain People, Coppola would help him on the THX screenplay. Lucas agreed and Coppola made a package deal with Warner Brothers. They would get The Rain People and an option on THX. They also advanced Lucas $3,000 to work on the screenplay. Also at that time, Lucas decided to make a documentary depicting the real people behind the camera of Rain People and how hard it is to make a movie. Filmmaker, the documentary, remains one of the best documentaries about the production of a movie, as fresh and insightful today as it was in ...
- 242: Desert Biome
- ... dry. Arid deserts receive little precipitation and are characterized by specialized plants that tolerate drought conditions and salty soils, and by distinctive land features. Most desert areas get less than 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain in a year. The rainfall is not only scanty but also uncertain. "Records at Iquique in northern Chile showed no rain for a period of four years. The fifth year brought 0.6 inches (1.5 centimeters), making a five-year average of 0.12 inches (0.3 centimeter). At another time 2.5 inches (6 ... desert depend on sources of water or the adaptations they have developed. Few parts of the desert are entirely barren. Where water seeps toward the surface, a great variety of plants spring up. After a rain low shrubs and grasses come to life. At blooming time, the plants are fragrant and bright with color. They grow quite far apart, instead of providing complete ground cover. Desert plants differ in the ...
- 243: Ritalin
- ... straight into the blood, and contaminate the circulatory system (4). Snorting Ritalin, which is more common, harms the body just as much as does intravenous abuse. Ritalin tablets contain hydrochloride salt which produces dilute hydrochloric acid when it comes in contact with moisture; once inside the nasal passages, the acid burns the tender nasal tissues which controls the olfactory sense in the body (Bailey 5). The price that some people pay to damage their bodies expresses the lack of common sense which abusers have. In ... straight into the blood, and contaminate the circulatory system (4). Snorting Ritalin, which is more common, harms the body just as much as does intravenous abuse. Ritalin tablets contain hydrochloride salt which produces dilute hydrochloric acid when it comes in contact with moisture; once inside the nasal passages, the acid burns the tender nasal tissues which controls the olfactory sense in the body (Bailey 5). The price that some people ...
- 244: The Cystic Fibrosis Gene
- ... pairs of genomic DNA. It contains twenty four exons.4 This gene codes for a protein involved in trans-membrane ion transport called the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator or CFTR. The 1,480 amino acid protein structure of CFTR closely resembles the protein structure of the ABC-transporter super family. It is made up of similar halves, each containing a nucleotide-binding fold (NBF), or an ATP- binding complex, and ... to transport chloride ions. There are five other frequent mutations that occur in the first NBF. The first is a deletion of an isoleucine residue, DF507. The second is a substitution of glycine or amino acid #551 by aspartic acid/F551D. The third involves stop mutations at arginine #553 and glycine #542. The fourth is substitutions of serine #549 by various other residues. The fifth is a predicted splicing mutation at the start of ...
- 245: The Cystic Fibrosis Gene
- ... pairs of genomic DNA. It contains twenty four exons.4 This gene codes for a protein involved in trans- membrane ion transport called the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator or CFTR. The 1,480 amino acid protein structure of CFTR closely resembles the protein structure of the ABC-transporter super family. It is made up of similar halves, each containing a nucleotide-binding fold (NBF), or an ATP-binding complex, and ... to transport chloride ions. There are five other frequent mutations that occur in the first NBF. The first is a deletion of an isoleucine residue, DF507. The second is a substitution of glycine or amino acid #551 by aspartic acid/F551D. The third involves stop mutations at arginine #553 and glycine #542. The fourth is substitutions of serine #549 by various other residues. The fifth is a predicted splicing mutation at the start of ...
- 246: Israel 2
- ... the tropical zone) desert is hot and dry year round. The northern mountainous area has temperature variations with some freezing and even an occasional snow. Parts of the south may receive but one inch of rain annually; however, the coastal and the Upper Galilee regions receive from twenty-five to forty five inches of rain. Frequent summer droughts, especially in the southern desert region, make extensive irrigation a necessity. Heavy rains in these and other area can cause floods and erosion.”Enclopedia.com “Much of Israel’s desert contains poor ... humid area is along the Mediterranean coast, where the average annual rainfall is about 200 mm (about 8 in). Precipitation decreases rapidly to the south; Cairo receives on average only 26 mm (1 in) of rain a year, and in many desert locations it may rain only once in several years.”
- 247: Australia
- ... this vegetation, giving much of it hardened, pointed leaves of reduced size--a condition called scleromorphy. Australia's native vegetation is divisible into seven types. The first type of vegetation consists of remnants of Gondwanan rain forests, with primitive flowering plants, palms, and laurels. These occur where high rainfall and high temperatures coincide with fertile, often volcanic soils, mainly in coastal north Queensland. In climax rain forests, three layers of trees appear, entangled with shrubs, lianas, and epiphytes. Closest to original Gondwanan conditions are the temperate rain forests of Tasmania, dominated by the myrtle beech and swathed in tree-ferns and mosses--called moss forests. The second type of vegetation, communities dominated by the tall, straggly eucalyptus trees, is the most ...
- 248: Heros Of The Sixties Counter C
- ... eastern spirituality, and support for the use of psychedelics struck a chord with the emerging counterculture, which saw him as a spiritual guide and teacher. He would make an occasional appearance at the Merry Pranksters Acid Tests, where his chanting and poetry readings would, it is said, even have a mellowing effect on the Hells Angels in attendance. His best-known appearance in San Francisco was at the Human Be-In ... she met up with a like-minded group of psychedelic adventurers who referred to themselves as The Merry Pranksters, and with whom she would be immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s book, “The electric cool-aid acid test” Sleeping in a tent earned her the nickname “Mountain Girl”, bestowed by fellow Prankster Neil Cassady. After one particular Acid Test, she found herself sweeping the floor with one of the members of the “house” band, The Warlocks. A casual conversation was struck up, and before too long, 710 Ashbury would become home. The ...
- 249: Mount Ruapehu
- ... level is within the central mountain belt of North Island where average annual temperatures are much lower. Around Ruapehu the mean annual rainfall is estimated at 2000 mm in an average of 150 days of rain fall per year (Anderson, 1977). Average wind directions for North Island are NE in the summer and SW in the winter but these directions vary greatly throughout the year. Wind speeds in the Ruapehu region can reach up to 115 km/hour and high intensity rain storms characterise the region (Hackett and Houghton, 1989). Throughout most of the year glaciers and snow remain frozen at the volcano's peak. HISTORICAL ERUPTIONS: Ruapehu has long been active but has only been recorded ... 20 km high and extended NE from Mt. Ruapehu for over 300 km. When the ash particles fall out of suspension a drape of ash (often several meters thick) is veiled over the topography, heavy rain can speed this process up. OTHER HAZARDS: Rivers, streams, melted ice and snow and heavy rain can remobilise ash deposits on slopes and down valleys, forming treacherous high speed mud flows. Volcanic tremors can ...
- 250: Ernest Hemingway: His Life And His Stories
- ... a direct result of his life. Some of his stories show a direct relationship between his life and his work. Looking at three of Hemingway's short stories, " Soldier's Home," "A Cat in the Rain" and " A Clean Well-Lighted Place, in terms of their relationship to events and experiences in Hemingway's own life. His stories from World War I reflect deeping despairs, and a conviction that life ultimately ... became only another indication of war. As a soldier, Krebs had preserved his sanity by rebelling quietly and alone. Hemingway began to make some notes for a short story to be called "Cat in the Rain" It was about himself and Hadley and the manager and the chambermaid at the Hotel Splendide. "There were only two Americans stopping at the hotel," it began. "They did not know any of the people ... American wife stood at the window looking out…(Pg. 167, Hemingway) these are the notes Hemingway took down. The American wife and husband he is describing are himself and Hadley. The story "Cat in the rain" is basically describing the disintegration of Hemingway's marriage to Hadely. This is a deceptively simple story about a young American, married couple vacationing in Italy. As her husband reads, the wife looks out ...
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