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- 13921: Gulf War Syndrome
- ... answers have been found. Not only have thousands of troops suffered from this syndrome, but also their families have developed some symptoms related to this syndrome. It is important to inform our nation of this new disease because there is still no cure, and GWS can be our next conflict relating to AIDS and Cancer. This research is dedicated to people who are uneducated about Gulf War Syndrome. After reading many ... them are ongoing and four have been awarded funds that are pending start-up (Coy 50-51). The search for the cure for this syndrome has been endless since 1991. According to Nolan Walters, a New Orleans doctor might have the cure. Walter s article states that back in 1995 Congress refused to give the doctor $3.4 million to test his method. The result is a two-year standoff. Dr. Edward S. Hyman, the New Orleans doctor that Walters states to have the cure for the syndrome, has been denied by the Pentagon six times. Walters also says that Hyman said his treatment, is based on attacking normally undetected ...
- 13922: Hard Water
- ... oxides to form acids and it also acts as a catalyst in many important chemical reactions. Not only is it essential to our health, but it is also crucial in the household and the industrial world. Every day we use water for cooking, bathing, cleaning and drinking, but it s rare that we often think about how the minerals that can be found in it, could change the way we live ... single or multiple taps or for the whole house, and can improve water quality in a variety of ways. One of the most popular POU technologies is water softening. Hard water is found throughout the world and in about 85% of Canada, according to the geological survey. Hard water areas exist where water has access to rock that contains calcium, magnesium, or a combination of both. According to the Water Council ... clean purified water lies waiting for us, unlike in many countries over the seas. We should stop being concerned about petty water problems and open up of views to the larger water problem of the world.
- 13923: The Internet Beyond Human Control
- The Internet Beyond Human Control The Internet has started to change the way of the world during this decade. More homes, companies, and schools are getting hooked online with the Internet during the past few years. This change has started to become the new way of life present and future. The Internet system is so advanced it is ahead of our time. This system is becoming predominately used everyday, but every which way it works out this system ends ...
- 13924: Hemp - Miricale Plant
- Hemp - Miracle Plant Is there a single plant that could possibly save the world? Because of its vigor and adaptability, it was amongst the first plants to be cultivated by humans and has been used and grown by many cultures for thousands of years. Yet, today people are fined ... with this plant, it could supply us with all our fuel, gas and oil needs. I find it funny that government officials don't realize the impact that this single plant could have on the world. Instead of penalizing people for growing it, governments should be encouraging farmers to grow it. What is this plant you might ask? This plant that has created so much controversy and which I feel could save the world is hemp. Whatever you decide to call it, I feel that it is the nature's most important plant that should be used to its fullest potential and I am very thankful for it.
- 13925: History And Development Of The Internet
- History and Development of the Internet The internet is a global computer network connecting millions and millions of users throughout the world. (Leiner, 2). It has become one of the fastest growing forms of communication today. (Marshall, 1). The Internet started as a Defense Department Cold War experiment in the 1950 s. (Academic American, 225). The government ... of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile by using "redundancy of connectivity". This meant that in the event of a break in the network the server would re-route the information in an alternate path through a new technique called "packet switching". Packet Switching is a means of breaking up the message being sent into small packets which carry enough information to seek out its destination and sending them out separately towards the ...
- 13926: How The Internet Got Started
- ... a curiosity. ARPANET, too was a curiosity for a while. Then computer networking became an utter necessity. In 1984 the National Science Foundation got into the act,through its office of Advanced Scientific Computing. The new NSFNET set a blisteing pace for technical advancement linking newer, faster, shinier supercomputers, through thicker, faster links,upgraded and expanded,again and again,in l986,l988,l990.And other government agencies leapt in: NASA, National ... it is a bargain you can talk to anyone anywhere,and it doesnt charge for long distance service. It belongs to everyone and no one. The most widely used part of the "Net" is the world Wide Web. Internet mail is E mail a lot faster than the US Postal service mail Internet regulars call the US mail the "snailmail" File transfers allow Internet users to access remote machines and retrieve ...
- 13927: The Internet
- ... colorful, icons are blinking and it can talk to you. Besides that, it is fast and easy, of course. It claims to be a powerful tool for exchanging and gathering information which will change the world in the near future. And probably it will. The enthusiastic prophets of this tool stress that the amount of information available on the web is already immense and quickly growing, and access is getting cheaper ... not for me or you, damn ass, it is for itself. Turns out that this fast flow of data between all continents and idiots aided by incorporated in the web digital intelligence will create a new Super Being. And this is not to benefit anybody in particular but this Being, and it is an inevitable faith of the evolution of our Galaxy. There is one more aspect of the internet and ...
- 13928: "A Wrinkle in Time"
- ... faith and positive mental attitude, the good prevailed !!! Work's Cited Burnett, Jera. "A Wrinkle in Time Character Chart." AOL. 2/18/00. Http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/-kburnett/jerawrin/wrinklecc.html. Handout, Topics in World Literature. Spring 2000. L'engle, Madeline. A Wrinkle in Time. New York:Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1962.
- 13929: All Quiet On the Western Front: The Destructiveness of War
- ... steps more while the blood spouts from his neck like a fountain (pg.115). Another incredible moment is stated on page 117, it says, I fall into an open belly on which lies a clean, new officers cap. These physical and emotional terrors cannot be healed completely neither the ones who saw them nor the ones who received them. Their pain is followed by deep scars, invisible to the common ... land. Paul describes it after an attack on page 115 The brown earth, the torn blasted earth, with a greasy shine under the suns rays; the earth is the background of this restless, gloomy world of automatons. The destructiveness of war was a main idea expressed in many ways throughout the novel. The physical pain, emotional scars and torn land are irreversible, especially in the minds of the men who ...
- 13930: Book Report, Reinventing Government
- ... round of reforms that was beginning to erupt in state and local governments, and suggests the same reforms for the federal government. The primary message delivered in Reinventing Government is that, in our rapidly-changing world in which we have to be able to do more with less, government can become more efficient if it learns to behave more entrepreneurially and less bureaucratically. The authors present the argument that the structure ... it has outlived its usefulness. They claim that the development of the bureaucracy cleaned up much of the corruption, but, like a howitzer brought out to shoot ants, it left us with other problems. The new problems grew out of the focus on internal processes and not, necessarily, effective outputs. The slower pace of society, technologies, and information availability allowed bureaucracies to be basically successful as it was still be able ...
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