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- 201: "The World Today Seems To Be Going Crazy": The Unabomber's Manifesto
- ... encased in boxes hand crafted out of hardwood. He polished and sometimes varnished his wood pieces, but it was clear, from amateurish joints, that he is not a trained woodworker. Bombs were fashioned with 2 x 4's to look like a pile of debris. A bomb was mailed to United Airlines president Percy Wood, who lived in Lake forest. One bomb was packaged inside the novel "Ice Brothers" by Arbor ... though a suspect has been arrested in the string of Unabomber attacks, no changes are planned in the handling of parcels" (Schmid, 1). Campus security was stepped up. Many universities like Stanford, bought its own X-ray machine and sent its police force for schooling in the Army bomb- detection center. At Berkeley, professors were told not to leave bags of refuse laying around, because it could provide cover for an ... sophisticated technology ever developed to detect and defuse bombs. Looking for evidence that Kaczynski was the anti-technology Unabomber, the FBI and the ATF brought in such devices as a remote-controlled robot and portable X-ray equipment to help search for bombs and booby traps. They came with new scientific techniques specifically designed during the Unabomber investigation to detect, analyze and defuse bombs made in the unique hand-crafted ...
- 202: Genetic Observations Through The Studies of Hybrid Corn, Single Gene Human Traits, and Fruit Flies
- ... seven traits had a higher frequency for the recessive allele (see table 3). In the fruit fly cross, a total of 99 fruit flies were collected. Forty-four white-eyed males with a phenotype of X^wY, and forty-five red-eyed females with a phenotype of X^+X^w. The phenotypes of the flies were the cross between a red-eyed male, X^+Y, and a white-eyed females, X^wX^w (see table 4). Discussion Data for the monohybrid cross did ...
- 203: Genetic Disorders
- ... first six months of life, and most children die before reaching the age of four. 1 in 3,600 people of eastern European Jewish ancestry carry it. A category of single-gene disorders known as X-linked disorders involves genes located on the X chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes. An example of an X-linked disorder is hemophilia. People with hemophilia usually lack 1 of the 14 or more proteins called clotting factors that repair a cut or torn blood vessel. Therefore, when they have an injury their ...
- 204: The Atom
- ... regularities among chemical elements that the periodic table of the elements displays. It was becoming clear that the electrons were responsible for chemical affinities between elements, that chemistry was ultimately electrical. Thomson just missed discovering X rays in 1884. He was not so unlucky in legend as the Oxford physicist Frederick Smith, who found that photographic plates kept near a cathode-ray tube were liable to be fogged and merely told ... on phosphorescence and fluorescence. In his case, particular of uranium. He heard a report of Rontgen's work at the weekly meeting of the Academie des Sciences on January 20, 1896. He learned that the X rays emerged from the fluorescence glass, which immediately suggested to him that he should test various fluorescence materials to see if they also emitted X rays. He worked for ten days without success, read an article on X rays in January 30 that encouraged him to keep working and decided to try a uranium slat, uranyl potassium sulfate. His ...
- 205: The Roswell Incident
- The Roswell Incident Almost everyday there are programs on television which involve or relate to UFO's (Unidentified Flying Object's) or aliens from other planets. Programs including X-Files, Unsolved mysteries, and Sightings, often deal with aliens and UFO's. Many people believe in other life-forms and some will do anything to convince themselves of their existence. Many of societies thoughts and ... about aliens and/or UFO's. The media places images and thoughts in people's minds which are rekindled in many instances. Also, people have gained a certain mistrust in the government. The television show X-Files, which "routinely deals with UFO's and abductions by aliens," portrays the government as being sneaky and corrupt (Stover 88). Government officials are seen covering up many incidents including UFO encounters and abnormal instances that are reported to the police. Last year, for its premiere season, X-Files drew a 13.2 rating; which means roughly 12.6 million people watched the show. These ratings display then attitude that many people face the government with. People do not trust the government ...
- 206: Pulmonary Agents
- ... the explosion of liquid filled shells with subsequent rapid vaporization and formation of a white cloud due to its slight solubility in an aqueous environment. It spontaneously converted to a colorless, low-lying (density 4 x air) gas. Because of its relatively low boiling point (7.5E C), phosgene was often mixed with other substances. It has a characteristic odor of sweet, newly mown hay. MECHANISM OF TOXICITY Phosgene is only ... effect of bronchodilator therapy. Decreased lung compliance and carbon monoxide diffusing capacity are particularly sensitive indicators of interstitial fluid volume in the lung, but are complex tests for hospital use only. Early findings on chest x-ray are hyperinflation followed later by pulmonary edema without cardiovascular changes of redistribution or cardiomegaly. V/Q scanning is very sensitive but nonspecific and for hospital use only. MEDICAL MANAGEMENT Terminate exposure as a vital ... only eye or upper airway irritation and is asymptomatic with normal physical examination 12 hours later, he may be returned to duty. If the patient's original complaint was dyspnea only, yet physical examination, chest x-ray, and arterial blood gases are all normal at 24 hours, he may be returned to duty. If the patient presented initially with symptoms and an abnormal physical examination, chest x-ray, or arterial ...
- 207: Underground to Canada : Mammy Sally's Version
- ... the knocked on the door they were surprised to sea a black man answer the door. The man said "come in the ladies Nina asked "what is your name sir." He said "My name is Malcolm." " What are you doing in here''? asked Mammy Sally. "I live here , said Malcolm. Mammy Sally and Nina looked shocked at Malcolm. They never saw a free black man. Malcolm said Why have you never seen a free black man? Because we are black , doesn't mean we don't have rights. "But we have to ...
- 208: Straight-Edge: What it is and What it Isn't
- ... since disbanded, but hardcore fans everywhere still follow the words of the song. (MacKaye later joined up with the punk band Fugazi and is tragically no longer straight-edge.) The symbol of straight-edge, the X, which is commonly seen on straight-edge apparel and painted in black ink, started a long time ago (perhaps the early 1900's?). Club and bar owners would mark a black X across the hands of those who were under the legal drinking age (18 or 21, depending on State laws). If a bartender saw the black X on the person's hand, he would know not to serve that person an alcoholic drink. Today, straight-edge people wear the X on shirts, hats and hands with pride when they go to ...
- 209: Straight-Edge: What It Is And What It Isn't
- ... since disbanded, but hardcore fans everywhere still follow the words of the song. (MacKaye later joined up with the punk band Fugazi and is tragically no longer straight-edge.) The symbol of straight-edge, the X, which is commonly seen on straight-edge apparel and painted in black ink, started a long time ago (perhaps the early 1900's?). Club and bar owners would mark a black X across the hands of those who were under the legal drinking age (18 or 21, depending on State laws). If a bartender saw the black X on the person's hand, he would know not to serve that person an alcoholic drink. Today, straight-edge people wear the X on shirts, hats and hands with pride when they go to ...
- 210: John Maynard Keynes
- ... it a point to say that aggregate expenditures (demand) could be forever inadequate for an economy to achieve full employment. Aggregate expenditures are the sum of consumption (C), Investment (I), government (G), and net exports (X-M). C, I, G, (X-M) are national accounting categories used to calculate GDP following the expenditures approach. According to Keynes he believed that the most important factor is the disposable of income which is the personal income to spend ... G). The government spending will be considered autonomous, just like that investment and a certain component of consumption. There is also a foreign sector that is involved in all this, but it uses the label X. Instead of showing symbols for imports and exports it uses the symbol X which stands for net exports. So for the equation it would look like this: C+I+G+X. Keynesian theory claims ...
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