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- 1371: Cloning
- ... successful. Therefore, the biological term cloning is the production of a genetically identical duplicate of an organism. However, people can use the word cloning to intend other meanings. For instance, we generalize many older and new techniques as cloning. This is not a good practice because these techniques are different and impose unique concerns and issues. In the world of scientific technology, cloning is the artificial production of organisms with the same genetic material. Scientists actually call the transferring of a nucleus from the cell of one organism to an enucleated egg cell, nuclear ... produce an organism that has the exact genetic material as that of the donor cell. Scientists are using current techniques exceedingly more, and with a variety of species. Astonishingly, more clones are present in the world than one would think. In nature, and even in the lives of humans, clones are present. As stated earlier, a clone is an organism that has the same genetic information as another organism. From ...
- 1372: Pfizer In The Animal Health In
- Pfizer entered the animal health industry in the early 1950 s. Today, Pfizer Animal Health products are sold to veterinarians, livestock producers, and horse and pet owners in more than 140 countries around the world and used in more than 30 species. Pfizer Animal Health is committed to providing high-quality, research-based health products for livestock and companion animals. The company continues to invest more in research and development than any other animal health company. This offers opportunities for substantial growth and internal synergy. Pfizer has more new animal health products in its research pipeline today than at any other time in its history. Their products include anti-inflammatory, anti-infectious, and anti-parasitic pharmaceutical medicines, vaccines and feed additives. These products are ... 1998. Some of Pfizer s top selling animal health products are Rimadyl, Anipryl, Dectomax, and RespiSure.( Appendix: Pg 26 AR) The animal health segment is served in manufacturing by the 35 production plants around the world. Their products are sold through veterinarians, drug wholesalers, retail outlets, distributors, and directly to users. Animal Health gross revenues declined 1% to 1.3 billion in 1998. (Note Appendix:) This decrease is due to ...
- 1373: Andy Warhol
- ... pop art have taken pleasure, if not pride, in exalting the commonplace and the commercial in the technological society of the late 20th century. A graduate of the Carnegie Institute in 1949, Warhol moved to New York City and gained success as a commercial artist. He got his first break in August 1949 when Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled "Success is a Job in New York". But by accident the credit read "Drawings by Andy Warhol" and that's how Andy dropped the "a" in his last name. He continued doing ads and illustrations and by 1955 he was the most successful and imitated commercial artist in New York. In 1957 he won the Art Directors Club Medal for a giant shoe advertisement. In 1960 he produced the first of his paintings depicting enlarged comic book characters - such as Popeye and Superman - ...
- 1374: Skeptical Views On Noahs Ark
- ... myth As skeptics have long been aware, there was no global flood in the last 5000 years, a boatload of animals did not ground on so-called Mount Ararat or on any mountain, and the world's animals are not descended from two or seven pairs of each species that lived during the third millennium BC. Nor is there any archaeological proof that a man survived a flood by being on ... be reconciled with a local flood theory. Instead this upheaval was global. The Hebrew word baqa translated as "broken up" in the King James version is translated "burst forth" in the Revised Standard Version and New International Version. The Hebrew word mayan for "fountain" can also mean a well or spring which share a common meaning: a source of water. References to sources of sea water breaking or bursting may have ... the flooded region known to Noah. He would have had no way of knowing what was happening to the land outside his local region. The Apostle Peter in II Peter 3:6 refers to the "world that then existed was overflowed with water and perished." Peter's reference to the flood would have no value if the flood were only a local inundation. Peter received his information on the flood ...
- 1375: Slavery
- The debate over the economic advantages of slavery in the South has raged ever since the first slaves began working in the cotton fields of the Southern States. Initially, the wealth of the New World was in the form of raw materials and agricultural goods such as cotton, sugar, and tobacco. Slavery, without a doubt, had its profitable aspects prior to the Civil War. However, this postulation began to change ... ideals of British Mercantilism which called for strict regulation of the state and its people for the good of the national economy. In the early 1700s, Frenchman Colbert stated that, "no commerce in the world produces as many advantages as that of the slave trade"(Williams, 144). The inhumane practice of slavery began in the American colonies in 1619. Although Africans first came to the New World around 1501, ...
- 1376: Bill Gates
- ... in a class full of girls"(Gates 12). In 1972 Intel released their first microprocessor chip: the 8008. Gates attempted to write a version of BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) for the new Intel chip, but the chip did not contain enough transistors to handle it. Gates and Allen found a way to use the 8008 and "started Traf-O-Data, a computer traffic analysis company"(Clayton 452) It worked well however, marketing their new machine proved to be impossible. "No one actually wanted to buy the machine, at least not from a couple teenagers"(Gates 14). Gates and Allen had more less successful endeavors in starting a software company. In 1974 Intel announced their new chip: the 8080. The two college students sent off letters "to all the big computer companies, offering to write them a version of BASIC for the new Intel chip. We got no takers"(Gates ...
- 1377: Business And The Economy
- ... caused by a wide range of hazardous and toxic materials. Their range of services included the following: · Waste Management · Logistics · Incineration · Project Management · Recycling · Environmental Monitoring (See APPENDIX A) DISCUSSION Not all Countries in the World have the ability or the technology to safely dispose of chemical waste such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). It may be argued that it is more desirable and safer to move the waste to another ... eighties many articles on "green" companies and industries featured Rechem 8. Rechem were praised by the Minister for the Environment at the time as "true friends of the earth" 9. Rechem were acknowledged as a world leader in the safe incineration of dangerous chemicals. Cons:- of firms like Rechem importing & disposing chemical waste: 1. Britain is taking other countries and disposing of it for them and the sub product of the ... air. 2. The research to test if it is fully liable is limited and seems to be on a trial and error basis. 3. Profit and shareprices seem more important than environmental issues. 4. The world is more environmentally aware. 5. Bad press as stories circulated about babies being born with eye malformations and also diseased cattle near Rechem plants. 6. The Daily Telegraph reported that tests on foliage samples ...
- 1378: Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
- ... discovery now made it possible to look inside the human body without performing surgery. Within the few days of the findings, x-rays were used to locate a bullet in a man's leg. The world of medicine had acquired a major new tool for examining the sick and injured. The year after Roentgen's discovery, a French researcher and a friend of the Curie's, Antoine Henri Becquerel found that a rare substance called uranium gave off ... substance, somewhat stiff like that of tar, which contains tiny quantities of uranium but absent of thorium. Pitchblende gave off eight times more rays than the uranium that it contained. It was, utilizing Marie's new term, more radioactive. Marie figured out that pitchblende must therefore contain another element,which was also radio-active that no one had discovered as of yet. Pierre was so overwhelmed with this discovery, he ...
- 1379: A Scope Of Microsoft
- ... way of life. The goal was to integrate computers into peoples everyday lives. The company started out in Gates garage with primitive technology and unlimited aspiration. Today the company has grown to be the worlds number one software developer and manufacturer. The company offers a very diverse line of products ranging from home user applications to high tech business software. Microsoft develops and manufactures a full line of games, web publishing, and most importantly, its number one piece of software, Windows 2000 and ever-popular Office 2000. The world basically runs on Microsoft software. The software is shipped with 70% of the worlds computers giving Microsoft a total of over 19 billion dollars in revenues for 1999. Microsoft has recently emerged in the world of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to become a competitor of the ...
- 1380: Cold War 3
- The cold War The Cold War was a response to the perceived threat by the United States that Communism would interfere with national security and economic stakes in the world. It was a perceived threat by communist countries that the United States would take to the world. During the Cold War, the United States, Russia, and other countries made efforts to avoid another world war, while warring in proxy in other lands. The devastation caused by the hydrogen bombs exploded in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the next technological advancements became only deterrents to the public. Governments had their ...
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