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- 1311: How Dams Affect Salmon Migration
- ... is no "flow" up to 90% of the juvenile salmon are killed even before they reach the ocean due to their extended exposure to predators, stress, disease, and other conditions created by dams.The third effect that the slowing of the river has on salmon is that the flow velocity is so slow that the young salmon are unable to reach the sea in time for their change from fresh to ... Are the dams and salmon really able to exist on the same river?" Based on our research the answer is no. Dams themselves have destroyed our salmon runs. Enhancement measures seem to be having little effect. In some cases, enhancement measures are actually harming the fish. Drawdown is, to me, the only practical and effective way of allowing juvenile salmon down the rivers, while also virtually unaffecting power supplies, agriculture, or ...
- 1312: Do Companies Have Business Con
- ... Griffin, 1993). The company has long been as well known for its participative management system as for its innovative office furniture designs (Woodruff, 1991). The company is doing everything it can to lessen its adverse effect on the environment. It recycles leather, vinyl, foam, office paper, telephone books, lubricating oil, and even old office furniture. When it found that recycling 800,000 Styrofoam cups every year was not practical, it banned ... Weber, 1996). Because of its obvious importance, organization proactively attempt to manage social responsibility (Van Fleet & Peterson, 1994). Moreover, the iron law of responsibility suggests that socially responsible behavior may have a positive long-run effect on organizational success.
- 1313: Article -New York Times
- ... risk driving viewers away through registration or age-verification mechanisms. Therefore, she said, the law "creates a very strong financial disincentive to create or publish work," adding that there is "a risk of a chilling effect on free speech." But Justice Department lawyers, defending the law, argued that its language is clear enough to apply only to sites that exist to promote pornography. Furthermore, said one of the lawyers, Rupa Bhattacharyya ... decision sometime Monday before the midnight expiration of a temporary restraining order that has blocked the law from being enforced. The law was signed last October by President Clinton, but it has never gone into effect. In response to one of the judge's questions, Christopher A. Hansen, another lawyer for the ACLU, which is challenging the law with 16 other groups and businesses, indicated that the statute's wording could ...
- 1314: Auguments about Abortion
- ... bodies. No government or group of people should feel that they have the right to dictate to a person what path their lives should take. People who say that they are "pro-life" are in effect no more than "anti-choice". These pro-lifers want to put the life and future of a women into the hands of the government. Abortion, and the choice a women may make, is a very ... be preferable to abortion. The important thing, they believe, is that these children will be living. They say that when a women goes to get an abortion the fetus is given no choice. But, in effect, what they really are saying is that the power of choice should be taken away from the mothers, giving the unborn child an opportunity to be brought into a loveless, lonely, and uncaring world.
- 1315: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... utilizes juxtapositioning of bathers in the foreground with a townscape in the background. It was this painting which provided Ginsberg with the "illuminative flash" comparable to his Blake vision. He would now seek the same effect with his poetry. The object would be to juxtapose written imagery in such a way as to produce what he and Kerouac referred to as "eyeball kicks." In "Dream Record: June 8, 1955" Ginsberg recorded ... Vollmer, the accidentally murdered wife of William Burroughs. Devoting parts of the poem to passages about the dream, and parts to passages about Vollmer's death, he was moderately successful in achieving the "petite sensation" effect. But despite praise by William Burroughs for the poem, Ginsberg was still basically blocked. He attempted unsuccessfully to complete two other larger works, and was only able to write in "flashes," single lines of imagery ...
- 1316: College Stress 2
- ... meals to study. The yield of this consists of constant headaches and backaches, and getting really depressed because the student could never reach their goals of perfection. Dr. Hans Selye describes stress as a side effect produced by any situation to which you respond in any way. It is the nonspecific response of the body to any demand made upon it. The demand may be pleasant or unpleasant, or damaging. The ... are the following: 1. Trauma of almost any type 2. Infection 3. Intense or cold 4. Injection of norepinephrine and other symptomatic drugs 5. Surgical operations 6. Injection of necrotizing substances beneath the skin The effect physiological stress on ACTH secretion in any type of ACTH and consequently of cortisol as well, often can increase cortisol secretion up to 20 fold. It is believed that pain stimuli caused by the stress ...
- 1317: Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy
- ... reign of Fulgencia Batista in Cuba; a small island 90 miles off the Florida coast. There have been many coups and changes of government in the world since then. Few if any have had the effect on Americans and American foreign policy as this one. In 1952, Sergeant Fulgencia Batista staged a successful bloodless coup in Cuba . Batista never really had any cooperation and rarely garnered much support. His reign was ... leanings. Perhaps this was due to the ramifications of Senator Joe McCarty's discredited anti-Communist diatribes. It seemed as if the reciprocal economic interests of the U.S. and Cuba would exert a stabilizing effect on Cuban politics. Cuba had been economically bound to find a market for its #1 crop, sugar. The U.S. had been buying it at prices much higher than market price. For this it received ...
- 1318: Alcoholism
- ... formed during fermentation, the process that creates the alcohlolicbeverage. When sugars from the fruits or grains are combined with yeast and water, alcohol results. Alcohol is a drug and, like all drugs, it has an effect on a persons body and mind. Because drinking alcoholic beverages makes some people feel more alive and more outgoing, alcohol is sometimes seen as a stimulant. But in fact it is a depressant, and ... target drunk drivers who remain undeterred. There is evidence that high profile breathtesting cuts casualty rates. An argument frequently implied by the alcohol industry against lowering the limit is that such a step would not effect casualties as road deaths tend to be caused primarily by drivers with very high blood alcohol levels who ignore a lower limit just as they ignore the present one. The fact is that the number ...
- 1319: Canines On The Police Force
- ... are the rafts of the other people who have walked by. That s why it s important for a dog to be able to distinguish between different people s scents. Wind can have a big effect on raft, which is blown around by a slight breeze. To understand the effect, if smoke blows in the wind, it flies to one direction. It is the dog and the handler s job to be able to understand the way the wind blows and not be distracted by ...
- 1320: Crisis In Kosovo
- ... and Hungary (especially over Bosnia) was deteriorating. In 1906 tariffs was placed on Serbian exports through Hungary as part of the so-called "Pig War." This shift of Serbia's external circumstances had a dramatic effect on its foreign policy, in that there was a sudden "discovery" of Macedonia. This was one of the last Turkish holdings in the area, and although Bulgaria and Greece had been trying to obtain it ... Sarajevo. There a group called the secret society assassinated him and his wife. This was the catalyst for the beginning of the First World War. The first and second world wars had a deep lasting effect on this area. Although Yugoslavia tried hard to be an independent and non-warring nation during the second world war the pressure from the Nazis were too much and they eventually succumbed to them on ...
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