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- 2661: The Depletion of Ozone Layer
- ... of us need to work in our own particular ways to be caretaker of the earth. Work Cited 1. Roan, L. Shannon. Ozone Crisis (The last 15 years Evolution of a Sudden Global Emergency.) Canada: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1989. 2. Gurney, Kevin Robert. Saving the Ozone Layer Faster. Technology Review Jan. 1993: 83 85. 3. Spurgeon, David. Ozone Treaty Must Tackle CFC Smuggling. Nature 18 Sept 1997: 35 39. 4 ...
- 2662: Polymers
- ... Synthetic polymers are usually referred to as plastics. Petroleum, is the primary monomer used to produce polymers. An English chemist named Alexander Parkes was the first scientist to produce the first synthetic polymer in 1862. John Wesley Hyatt, an American, was the first person to produce a useable polymer two years later. He named the product celluloid. The prime virtue of polymers is a high strength-to-weight ratio. Industrial-strength ...
- 2663: The Human Cloning Controversy
- ... January 1999): 1-5. "Ethics and Human development: Cloning for Spare Parts." http://testzygote.swarthmore.edu/gene8.html "Headless humans clones will grow organs in 10 years" http://www.globalchange.com/frogs.htm(1997) Robertson, John A. "The Cloning Controversy." CQ Researacher 9 May 1997: 423. Stencel, Sandra. "The Cloning Controversy." CQ Researcher 9 May 1997: 409-432. Vere, Steven. "The Case for Cloning Humans." The Human Cloning Foundation (http://www ...
- 2664: Quantum Theory?
- ... regretful. Works Cited Crighton, Michael. Timeline. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Davies, Paul. Other Worlds. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. Fox, Maggie. Spooky Teleportation Study Brings Future Closer. Reuters. 22 October 1998. Horgan, John. The End of Science. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1996. The New Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc. Publishers, 1998. Thomas, Dan. Rudiments of Quantum Theory. 25 August 1996. Online. Internet. 5 March 2000 ...
- 2665: Doc Holliday
- Few gunmen in history have been as notorious as the late John"Doc" Holliday. Part of the reason Doc has enjoyed such a famedhistory is because of the overall descent man he was, that is when hewasnt gambling, drinking, and gunslinging. When Doc died he mighthave ...
- 2666: Evolution
- ... reading, in fact falls back to Darwinism. DARWINIAN THEORY OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION Modern conception of species and the idea of organic evolution had been part of Western consciousness since the mid-17th century (a la John Ray)3, but wide- range acceptance of this idea, beyond the bounds of the scientific community, did not arise until Darwin published his findings in 19584. Darwin first developed his theory of biological evolution in ...
- 2667: Earthquakes
- ... either by sudden flexure and constraint of the elastic materials forming a portion of the earth's crust or by their giving way and becoming fractured.(Butler 1995) Later, in the 1870s, the English geologist John Milne devised a forerunner of today's earthquake-recording device, or seismograph. A simple pendulum and needle suspended above a smoked-glass plate, it was the first instrument to allow discrimination of primary and secondary ...
- 2668: Observed Distribution of South American Relief Features
- ... as the sky along with the deep valleys that are being produced from the crashing and spreading of these plates. The amazing landscape features are a result of centuries of change within earth. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bird, John M. and Isacks, Bryan, ed., Plate Tectonics. Washington American Geophysical Union, 1972. Christopherson, Robert W. Geosystems. 4th. ed. New York Prentice Hall, 1999. Sullivan, Walter Continents in Motion. 3rd. ed. New York McGraw Hill Book ...
- 2669: Polymers
- ... Synthetic polymers are usually referred to as plastics. Petroleum is the primary monomer used to produce polymers. An English chemist named Alexander Parkes was the first scientist to produce the first synthetic polymer in 1862. John Wesley Hyatt, an American, was the first person to produce a useable polymer two years later. He named the product celluloid. The prime virtue of polymers is a high strength-to-weight ratio. Industrial-strength ...
- 2670: Greenhouse Effect
- ... America as a region in which crops may be grown, for example. Also, melting of parts of the Antarctic ice sheet will cause flooding of coastal cities such as London , New York, Beijing, Amsterdam, St. Johns, Halifax, Vancouver , even Montreal and of entire countries, such as Bangladesh" (Johnson, 1990). The greenhouse effect is not limited to certain countries or states. The entire world will suffer if it is allowed to ...
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