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- 3741: Chimpanzee
- ... what is called a "reassurance gesture-he will touch, pat, kiss or embrace the supplicator (loser)."(Goodall, 1992:8) Another example of chimpanzee aggression is the charging display. Although females sometimes display this behavior, especially high ranking, confident females, it is typically a male performance.(Reynolds, 1967:82) During such a display, the chimp charges flat out across the ground, slapping his hands, and stamping his feet. The chimps hair then ... opponents. "We have found, over thirty years of study, that the young males who display the most frequently, the most impressively, and with the most imagination, are the most likely to rise quickly to a high position in the male dominance hierarchy."(Goodall, 1992:9) In essence, every young male chimp is on a life long quest to become the top-ranking position of the male hierarchy that is called the ... the product of incest."(Hamai 1992:159) Some believe that the function of infanticide is to correct a females promiscuous habit and "coerce her into more restrictive mating relationships with adult males, and especially with high ranking males."(Hamai, 1992:159) What is interesting in all of these examples of chimpanzee infanticide is as soon as a chimpanzee male or female(Passion & Pom) got their hands on an infant, the ...
- 3742: Nuclear Warfare
- ... which immediately killed three hundred and twenty one persons, caused about 130,000 cases of irradiation and led to the displacement of hundred of individuals" (Fragelada). The post Chernobyl brain syndrome arose because of the high amounts of radiation. "In the city of Gomel, Belarus, near the Chernobyl power plant, a survey revealed that out of fifteen hundreds of children, only twenty-four were in good health" (Chernobyl). The Belarus children ... women must be monitored for both their incidence of spontaneous abortion [mis-carriage] as well as congenial defects in their offspring. Children must be monitored for possible future thyroid tumors as a result of the high radiation doses that they have sustained. Future generations must be studied to ascertain whether their incidence to cancers, diseases, or birth defects can directly attribute to a prior generation nuclear accident. The costs of nuclear ... Another reason to stand against nuclear power is that, unbeknownst to the general public, its wastes are used in the development of nuclear weapons. Although a county initiating the use of nuclear power may develop high-level waste storage methods, they are not generally designed to prevent encroachment. Nuclear waste becomes more tempting to potential bomb makers as time allows the waste to decay into a cleaner plutonium which could ...
- 3743: Could the Greenhouse Effect Cause More Damage?
- ... a cycle that would cause the effects to be worse than already predicted. The experiment will begin December of 1996 and will run for no less than three years. Harte has stretched a twelve foot high grid of cables above 300 square yards of land in a high mountain meadow in the middle of the Colorado Rockies. The cables are supported by four steel towers, one at each corner of the grid. Hanging down from the cables are ten infrared heat lamps which ... able to plot any changes in the meadow very precisely," says Harte. Some of these changes could alter the very make-up of the seasons. With a 2.5 degree rise in temperature, snow at high elevations might melt up to two months sooner. In Colorado that would constitute March as May. As a result, the soil will dry quicker and will be much warmer than usual when May rolls ...
- 3744: Normandy
- ... set up the Allied drive that only ended at the German border. In some ways it was indeed the Longest Day, and the Allies were fortunate in their enemies. Battle Despite a weather forecast of high winds and a rough sea, Eisenhower made the decision to go ahead with the invasion on June 6. During the night more than 5,000 ships moved to assigned positions, and at 2 am the ... Canadian and two British divisions landed, and also at UTAH, westernmost of the U.S. beaches, where the 4th Division came ashore. The story was different at OMAHA Beach; there an elite German division occupying high bluffs laced with pillboxes put the landings in jeopardy. Allied intelligence had detected the presence of the enemy division too late to alter the landing plan. Only through improvisation and personal courage were the men ... cases lighter than expected. Commanded by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, the Germans nevertheless defended tenaciously in terrain ideally suited to the defense. This was hedgerow country, where through the centuries French farmers had erected high banks of earth around every small field to fence livestock and protect crops from coastal winds. These banks were thick with the roots of shrubs and trees, and in many places sunken roads screened ...
- 3745: Sexual Abstinence
- ... are weak in our churches and schools. Teenage members of the Baptist church have signed agreements saying they'll abstain until they're married. The program is called True Love Waits, and more and more high school and college kids are vowing to remain chaste.13-year-old Kenneth Legary thinks it's a great idea, "I don't want to catch anything, and at the same time, I can be loyal ...
- 3746: Dinosaurs
- ... traditionally been assumed to have been reptilian in their physiology, cold-blooded, and ectothermic. In recent years several different lines of evidence have been interpreted as indicating that dinosaurs may have had warm blood and high rates of metabolism, comparable to birds and mammals. Evidence supporting this view includes upright posture and carriage; mammallike microscopical structure of bones; skeletal features suggestive of high activity; and specialized food-processing dentitions and low ratios of dinosaurian predators to prey animals, both suggesting high food requirements. The evidence is not conclusive--all the facts can be alternatively explained--but some dinosaurs may have been endothermic. The reproductive means of most dinosaurs is as yet unknown. Fossil eggs, attributed ...
- 3747: The Environmental Impact of Eating Beef and Dairy Products
- ... The modern dairy cow is usually artifically inseminated, pumped full of hormones and growth stimulants, and super-ovulated so she can churn out more calves, faster and faster. Cows are fed a diet geared toward high production. This diet, which is heavy in grain, is fed to species whose digestive track is suited to roughages. High-production diets create many health problems, including severe metabolic disorders and painful lameness, which are compounded by confinement. Also, at any given time, half of U.S. dairy cattle have mastitis (a painful udder inflamation ... those who ate the meats less than once a month. The conclusions are drawn from a study of 88,751 nurses that was begun in 1980. Eating beef has also been linked to heart disease, high blood pressure, and strokes. Drinking milk has been linked to asthma, allergies, intestinal bleeding, and juvenile diabetes. Cutting dairy products out of your diet gives you a greater chance of avoiding bronchial, respiratory, and ...
- 3748: New Orleans - Before The Civil War
- ... known as the Crescent City. New Orleans, with a population of 496,938 (1990 census), is the largest city in Louisiana and one of the principal cities of the South. It was established on the high ground nearest the mouth of the Mississippi, which is 177 km (110 mi) downstream. Elevations range from 3.65 m (12 ft) above sea level to 2 m (6.5 ft) below; as a result ... on their cargoes from those areas of West Africa with significant Muslim population. As the Islamic belief system forbids suicide and encourages patient perseverance, the middle-passage survival rate of captured African Muslims was quite high. For example, one such courageous survivor was Ibrahima Abdur Rahman, son of the king of the Fulani people of the Senegambia region, named "The Prince" by his master Thomas Foster of Natchez, Mississippi. Abdur Rahman ... who also usually freed the mother of their children. It would be several generations before mulatto, quadroon, and octoroon women would become the common-law wives and mistresses of white men. The reason for the high number of f.p.c. in New Orleans was largely due to the influx of Haitian Refugees into the city in 1809. Approximately 10,000 people arrived in New Orleans with roughly a third ...
- 3749: The Wolf
- ... humans. The size of the wolf can vary with geographic locality. Adults range from about 127 to164 cm (5 to 6.5 ft) from nose to tip of the tail, from 65 to90cm (26to36 in) high at the shoulders, and from 18 to 80 kg (40 to 175 lb.) in weight. The colors of the wolf can be many kinds of combination of colors, such as brown with a mix of ... it is happy or to communicate with other wolves. Habitat: Wolves can live in a variety of habitats like the arctic tundra to forest and prairie. But they never live in the deserts or really high mountains. At one time wolves lived mostly in the northern hemisphere in the arctic and in many other places. They may also be seen in places like Asia, eastern Europe, northern Africa and many other ... endangered any more . It is protected by not allowing humans to hunt the wolf any more . Other Information: To know when a wolf will attack is to look at the tail. If the tail is high and the head is low that means the wolf will attack . If the tail is waging the wolf is happy . But in most peoples lives they will never see a wolf because the wolf ...
- 3750: Nuclear Weapons
- ... periodic table, is one of the most unstable elements on the earth. It is formed when Uranium 235, another highly unstable element, absorbs a neutron. Plutonium is a silvery-white metal that has a very high density of 19.816 g/cm3. (Ref 10) It has been rarely found in the earth's crust but the majority of the substance has to be produced in the cores of the nuclear reactors ... for the decaying of uranium in soil, rock, and water. Inhaling this substance can damage your lungs and lead to cancer over time. Anyone who lives in homes, works in an office, or goes to school can be effected by the gas. Radon is just as dangerous as Pu-239 but it is more common. Shouldn't we be more concerned about what this naturally occurring substance can do rather than ...
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