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- 4081: Alphonse Scarface Capone
- Alphonse Scarface Capone BACKGROUND INFORMATION Alphonse Capone was born on January 17, 1899. He grew up in rough neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY where he would attend school only up to the sixth grade, when dropped out. Capone got his nickname Scarface from a knife attack by the brother of a woman whom Capone had insulted. The attack left him with three scars ... the rise of mobs probably wouldn t have been as great, for his mobs and style was so original and set a huge example. Also, the whole idea of competitiveness among illegal businesses was so high at his point that it sent out a message of hatred and threats towards rivals. One thing that Capone s gang did along with other s is they blackmailed. If any body got into someone ...
- 4082: Iron Absorption from the Whole Diet: Comparison of the Effect of Two Different Distributions of Daily Calcium Intake
- ... phenomenon could lie in the Homo sapiens genetic ancestry. As little as 200 years ago humans had almost double the amount of calcium intake as they do in the present, because humans evolved in a high-calcium nutritional environment. With the decrease in calcium, there has also been a large decrease in physical activity(Eaton et al.). The inhibitory effect of calcium on iron absorption could be related to the low ... absorption was done by using a liquid- scintillation spectrometer. The following equation wasused to determine heme iron absorption: heme iron absorption% = reference dose absorption % X 0.322 +15.71. Results - The nonheme iron absorption of high calcium intake was 12.1 +- 2.20% (range, 1.8%-32.3%) and low calcium intake was 15.9 +- 2.50% (range, 1.6% - 40.6%). When log serum ferritin concentration was used as a ... some extent. A main result of this study was that 30-50% more iron was absorbed when the intake of calcium was low at lunch and dinner compared with when the intake of calcium was high at these meals. This difference in iron absorption corresponds to 0.44 mgFe/day. In 5 of the original 21 women in our study, iron absorption was unexpectedly lower when milk was not served ...
- 4083: Albania
- ... Illyria, which now became the province of Illyricum, for six centuries. During these six hundred years of foreign domination, the culture of Illyria would be greatly affected. Art and culture flourished, particularly in Apollonia, whose school of philosophy was celebrated in antiquity (BRS Albania 2). Another, major influence which Roman rule had on Illyria was the manifestation of Christianity in Illyria. Original religious practices in Illyria included, but were not limited ... willing to help them? Maybe such accounts will help nations realize the observance of Human Rights are very important. In addition, that not doing so will eventually lead to long drawn out wars with a high number of civilian casualties. Work Cited Biographical Reference site for Albania http://www.albania.co.uk/main/history.html (15 June 1999) Biographical Reference site for The Ottoman Conquest of Albania. http://lcweb2.loc.gov ...
- 4084: Adolf Hitler The Final Solutio
- ... the ideas of an anti-Semitic politician named August Georg Von Schφnerer. One year after he retired to spend time with his family, he died. Between the years of 1900 and 1905, Hitler attended Realschule (High School) where teachers openly taught anti-Semitism. Hitler (was influenced) by remarks at home or by his classmates, and perhaps also by his teachers, at the Realschule in Linz, and thereby learned to understand the word ...
- 4085: Adolf Hitler 2
- ... in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leonding and other places. Hitler did well in school at the beginning, but his marks got progressively worse as time went on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art ... the removal of the Jews from German society. The Nazis tried to seize power by force in November 1923 (called the Beer Hall Putsch), but were thwarted by the Munich police. Hitler was Convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. Hitler resolved to achieve ...
- 4086: Smoking Banana Peels
- Smoking Banana Peels Back in the 1960s a lot of young poeple took drugs and these people would try anyhing to get a "high." One Craze was called " Smoking Banana Peels " and that is what this is about . It all started around 1967 when somebody wrote a letter to a hippie paper in Berkeley , California to the ' Berkeley Barb ' and explained how to smoke a banana peel to get high. First you have to peel the banana peel and then scrape the white material that is next to the peel out . You then must put this white material in the oven at 200 Degrees C ... and even TIME and NEWSWEEK wrote about it. Someone I know says he smoked banana peels once but he was "tripping" on mushrooms at the time so he didn't know if it made him high or not. A friend of mine tried smoking banana peels recently and he sasys it only gave him a little bit of a headache. Scientists said that their is a chemical in the banana ...
- 4087: AIDS and Its Causes
- ... about 1% of all patients. (4). Recipents of blood and blood components who are not hemophiliacs but who received tranfusions of HIV-infected whole blood components (e.g. platelet, plasma) account for 2 %. (5). Other high risk groups: 86% of patients acquire disease through heterosexual contacts with members of other high risk groups. 80% of children with AIDS have a HIV-infected parents and suffer from transplacental or perinatal transmission. Thus from the preceding discussion, it should be aparent that transmission of HIV occurs under conditions ... discussed seperately. 3.2.1HIV infection of lymphocyte & Monocytes -- the immune system (fig. 2 & fig.3) Central to the pathogenesis of AIDS is the depletion of CD4+ helper T cells. The CD4 antigen is the high affinity receptor to the gp120 protein on HIV-I. After binding to the host cell, the virus is internalized and the genome undergoes reverse transcription; the proviral DNA is then integrated in to the ...
- 4088: Anabolic Steroids
- ... also dissapear if the drugs are not used anymore. Steroids are also increase the risk of getting gallstones. Use of steroids also effects your cardiovascular system. There are two kinds of cholesterol in your body high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. HDL is good for the body but LDL is very hazardous to your health. Using steroids lowers the number of HDL in the body in most of the users. The lowering of the amount of HDL in the body puts the person at a higher risk of developing high blood pressure and blood-clotting problems. Some of the physicians also think that steroids also cause abnormal fat deposits in the body and changes the way the body processes carbohydrates. Men who use steroids also ... the demand for them. The government now believes that most of the steroids now produced and being sold are more of a health risk. A spokesman for the Justice Department anabolic steroid offenses are "a high priority item" for the government. One of the highest concerns is steroids and there attraction to younger people because they are exposed to drug dealers so much. Many of these kids buy drugs that ...
- 4089: Alcoholism
- ... for restrictions on breathtesting drivers to be removed. This would help them to use their powers more effectively both as a deterrent and also to 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 of alcohol related deaths occur when any level of alcohol is consumed. The same number of casualties occurs with a very low limit of alcohol in comparison to very high. Alcoholism can lead to many serious problems for the alcoholic and the people surrounding them. This is a disease that takes millions of lives every year and should be taken seriously. Alcoholism is a ...
- 4090: Cancer
- ... major discovery. The p53's function is as the director to control damage within the cell. When it is healthy, normal cells keep them around and they continue to degrade and replenish themselves. If a high alert is set in the cell due to invaders such as radiation, chemotherapy carcinogens, or chemotherapy drugs, the DNA is damaged, creating a potential risk for cancer. The p53 stops degrading and becomes active as ... 332 families that sought help in the genetic help group. In these cases, 22% had been refused insurance and 13% had lost their jobs to problems they didn't have yet. At the Harvard Medical School, Lisa Geller noted 200 cases of discrimination against completely healthy people. Their cases ranged from lost jobs due to treatable problems, and the inability to give a child up for adoption because of a family ...
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