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- 3611: How Technology Effects Modern America
- ... that this societal evolution is beneficial to all of us. "Back in 1970, a high school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street, and a dingy apartment in a low rent building," says Time Magazine (Jan 30, 1995 issue). However, in 1970, our government ...
- 3612: History And Development Of The Internet
- ... on APRAnet. The number of newsgroups on usenet began to expand and so did the variety of newsgroup content. In 1987 the operators of the usenet backbone computers had to create a different hierarchy to house the controversial newsgroups (until this point net. had held everything). Some systems had refused to carry the controversial newsgroups like net.rec.drugs so the ".alt" (alternative) hierarchy was created. (Diamond, 12) After the development ...
- 3613: Hard Water
- ... benefit from POU treatment. Consumers have the option to choose the higher quality of water that POU technologies can provide. Point-of-use technologies treat water at 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 ...
- 3614: Gps
- ... are being used to make everything more convenient, easier, safer, and quicker for not only the user of the navigation system but everyone else too; for example, if someone is hurt, or even if a house is on fire, 911 will dispatch vehicles containing computers hooked up to the GPS, this will make finding the accident, quicker easier and can save people from death or excessive injury. The GPS is an ...
- 3615: Global Warming 3 -
- ... to squander the Earth s resources, the climate could change in such a way that it is no longer benevolent to mankind. The greenhouse effect and global warming both correspond with each other. The green house effect is recalled as incoming solar radiation that passes through the Earth s atmosphere but prevents much of the outgoing infrared radiation from escaping into outer space. The global warming refers to a long term ...
- 3616: Global Warming 2 -
- ... 1.8° to 6.3° F) by the year 2100. So what are we doing to slow down and hopefully stop this warming of the earth? Last October Vice President Al Gore and the White House hosted a conference on Global Climate change. The CEO's of large polluting companies where invited to participate in the discussions to reduce emissions into the earth's atmosphere. The CEO of Sun Oil Company ...
- 3617: Geothermal Energy 2
- ... The pump operates on the same principle as the refrigerator, but it can move heat in both directions. In the winter, heat is removed form the ground; in the summer, hear is removed from the house. In either cycle, water is heated and stored, providing hot water. Because electricity is used only to transfer heat (not to produce it), these heaters will deliver around four times more energy than it consumes ...
- 3618: Galileo And The Telescope
- ... enough. These observations of the heavens got Galileo in a lot of trouble with the church. In fact, it got him in so much trouble, that the latter part of his live was spent under house arrest.
- 3619: Flesh-eating Bacteria
- ... the bloodstream, toxins destroy the tissue by breaking down protein. A chain reaction of biochemical signals from toxins results in the body being attacked by its own forces. It s like letting commandos into your house because there s a burglar there, and everyone opens fire all at once, says Dr. Allison McGeer, a medical microbiologist at Toronto s Mount Sinai hospital. The damage that results has very little to do ...
- 3620: Female Circumcision
- ... not stop at a store, but at a doctor's home. "This is your special day," Soraya's mother said. "Now you are to become a woman, an important woman." She was ushered into the house and strapped down to an operating table. A local anesthetic was given but it barely blunted the pain as the doctor performed the circumcision. Soraya was sent home an hour later. Soraya broke from her ...
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