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- 2361: Margaret Laurence
- ... the years one of Margaret’s "greatest encouragers." After her father’s death, when she was nine and her brother still a baby, the family went to live with Grandfather Simpson in his big brick house on first avenue. After graduating from high school in 1944, Margaret attended United College (now the University of Winnipeg), and was an assistant editor of the college paper, Vox. She graduated from United College with ... to England for seven years. In the ten-year period, 1964-1974, the Manawaka books were published: "The Stone Angel" (1964), "A Jest of God" (1969), "The Fire Dweller’s" (1969), "A Bird in the House" (1970), and "The Diviner’s" (1974). The last decade of her life focused on promoting causes she passionately supported - peace, social justice, the equality of women, environmental protection - through letters, lectures, essays and fund-raising ...
- 2362: The Chlorine Debate: How White Do You Want It?
- ... Atlantic (a multinational-level meeting of 15 European governments and the European Community), the 21-nation Barcelona Convention on the Mediterranean, and the American Public Health Association. Strong anti-chlorine sentiment exists in the White House, the United States Environmental Protection Agency and in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. President Clinton's proposal for the Clean Water Act involves a strategy for reducing or prohibiting chlorine use. Meanwhile, the chlorine industry is worried that the Environmental Protection Agency watchers might curtail or ...
- 2363: MEALS ON WHEELS
- ... at a designated location and specified time. The driver checks his route list for new consumers or changes. He loads his car with the meals to be delivered. The volunteer will go into the consumers house and assist with the delivery of the meal where necessary (i.e. helping to take food out of containers, etc.). When the route is complete the driver also returns empty containers to the food source ... his superintendent to ensure that it is alright to leave the meal. If the door is not locked, the volunteers must call out the consumer's name before entering. He may then proceed into the house to locate the consumer. If he finds the consumers to be ill or injured the volunteer will call 911. The volunteer should be trained in CPR to be able to aid the consumer, if necessary ...
- 2364: Radon
- ... goes on to say that they believe 10% of all lung cancer fatalities in the United States are caused by this problem. (Dunford, 1991) There are a number of ways radon gas can enter a house. It usually seeps in through foundation cracks, sumps, floor drains, floor/wall joints, basement windows, and sometimes it can penetrate a sound foundation and/or solid concrete walls, since even they are somewhat porous (Dunford, 1991). Radon may also occasionally enter in through the water supply. The EPA estimates that as much as 5% of the radon exposure in the average house originates from this source. In addition, as many as 1,000 Americans die annually because of it. Those states who have been found to have unsafe radon levels are Maine, Illinois, California, Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma ...
- 2365: Devastation of the Rain Forests
- ... save the Amazon" Revkin (1). Mendes had recently returned home from a six week long visit and rally in the United States. Three days before Christmas he was shot dead in the doorway of his house. Hundreds attended Chico's funeral, and despite his asking for no flowers, since he knew they were going to be picked from the forest, someone left one bouquet on his coffin. Mendes gave his life ... WORKS CITED 1. Andrew Revkin, The Burning Season (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990) 2. Robert M. McClung, Vanishing Wildlife of Latin America (New York: William Morrow, 1981) 3. Catherine Caufield, In the Rainforest (New York: Random House, 1984) 4. Jamie Shiguango, "An Experiment in Rainforest Conservation" Cultural Survival Quarterly Spring 1988: 56-59 5. Alexander Shankland, "Brazil's BR-364 Highway: A Road To Nowhere" Ecologist July/Aug. 1993: 141-147 6 ...
- 2366: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- ... wash my hands.ˇ¨ ˇV Sandy (internet 5) Sandy is a real person. She has been obsessed with verbal rituals and with anxieties about cleanliness for seven years. She has only recently ventured out of the house and into therapy. One very effective treatment for OCD is called systematic desensitization or exposure therapy. In this form of therapy, the person with obsessions and compulsions is gently exposed to situations that anxious him ... specialist at a hospital for help. These persons are retained in the village, treated by 'bomohs' and are often secured by chains and ropes to the trunk of coconut trees or stilts of the Malay house. The Indians would seek the interventions of various deities of the Hindu pantheon. Chinese on the other hand would resort to temple mediums, Chinese sinsehs and even Malay 'bomohs' before seeking treatment at a hospital ...
- 2367: Galileo
- Galileo "Whereas Galileo spent his last days under house arrest and was formally condemned by the Church for his scientific views, the elder Darwin was widely respected by the Anglican Church and was buried at the Westminster Abbey, an honor reserved for only the ... not seen as one of its key pushers. By doing this Darwin was able to remain behind the scenes and continue his work to improve his theories. Darwin spent most of his time in his house outside of London furthering his research and remaining in contact with the efforts to popularize his theory but did not actively participate in the way Galileo did. By staying somewhat behind the scenes and not ...
- 2368: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... Publ. Inc. NY. [Gen] Genest, C., Zidek, J. (1986) "Combining Probability Distributions: A Critique and Annotated Bibliography", Statistical Science 1:1, pp.114-148. [Gh] Ghiselin, Michael T. (1989) Intellectual Compromise: The Bottom Line, Paragon House Publ., NY. [Gi] Gilmore, J.B. (1991) "On Forecasting validity and finessing reliability", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14:1, pp.148-149. [Gr] Grofman, B., Owen, G. eds. (1986) Information Pooling and Group Decision Making ... Whe] Wheeler, S., (1990) "Betting on Futures in Financial Markets: A Variation on Old Institutions", Proc. Eighth Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, July, London. [Whi] White, F. (1946) Famous Utopias of the Renaissance, Hendricks House Inc, Putney Vermont. [WSJ] (1989) "Fusion Fuss Is Turning Scientists Into Gamblers" Wall Street Journal, April 18. [Ze] Zeckhauser, R., Viscusi, W. (1990) "Risk Within Reason", Science, 248, May 4, pp.559-564.
- 2369: LADIES OF MISSALONGHI
- ... an unattractive woman, in a small town differs from Alicia. Missy, the daughter of Drusilla did not really have any self-confidence in herself. "She would begin by wondering what she really looked like. The house owned only one mirror, in the bathroom, and it was forbidden to stand and gaze at one's reflection. Thus Missy's impressions of herself were hedged with guilt that she might have stayed too ... sick and fainted, her mother and aunt were worrying about who was going to do the chores. She was like Cinderella who was left behind to clean and do everything. Even when she left the house to go get something, she always thought about milking the cows and that she had to hurry back before her mother would get mad at her. She had such a big responsibility that she didn ...
- 2370: Violence In The Media
- ... But they have never failed to imitate them." (Sherrow 56) This basic truth has all but disappeared as the public increasingly treats teenagers as a robot-like population under sway of an exploitative media. White House officials lecture film, music, Internet, fashion, and pop-culture moguls and accuse them of programming kids to smoke, drink, shoot up, have sex, and kill. A recent report from the National Institute of Mental Health ... the damaging results of violence on society and our children will significant improvements be made to generate productive and imaginative entertainment. Bibliography Work Sited Belson, William A. Television and the Adolescent Boy. Great Britain: Saxon House, 1978. Brown, Ray, ed. Children and The Media. Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications Inc., 1996. Chaffee, Steven H., George Gerbner, Beatrix A. Hamburgh, Chester M. Pierce, Eli A. Rebinstein, Alberta E. Siegel, and Jerome L ...
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