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- 1351: Arizona Concrete
- ... formed into a wide variety of shapes, colors, and textures for use in almost unlimited number of applications. Works Cited A Cement and concrete.@ The 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Danbury: Grolier, 1996. Day, Richard. The Home Owner Handbook Of: Concrete and Masonry. New York: Bounty Books, No Copyright Date. Kosmatka, Steven H., and William C. Panarese. Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures. Skokie, Ill.: Portland Cement Association, 1990. Seymore ...
- 1352: The China Syndrome
- ... The China Syndrome is about a nuclear power plant in Los Angeles, California. The Ventanna Nuclear Power Plant came close to the China Syndrome! A Channel 3 news reporter, Kimberly Wells, and her camera man, Richard Adams, captured an accident on film at the nuclear power plant that would have caused the China Syndrome. The China Syndrome could have killed off a place about the size of Pennsylvania. One of the ...
- 1353: Landfills: A Growing Menace
- ... disposal points or re- introduced into the upper layers of garbage to resume the cycle. Unfortunately, most landfills have no such pumping system. [Miller 527]. Until the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency by President Nixon in 1970, there were virtually no regulations governing the construction, operation, and closure of landfills. As a result of this lack of legislation, 85 percent of all landfills existing in this country are unlined. Many ...
- 1354: The Hippopotamus: Endangered Species Report
- ... were barely maintainable. In short, if the hippos die, everything dependent on the hippo and it's way-of-life also suffers. Bibliography Brust, Beth W. Zoobooks: Hippos. San Diego: Wildlife Education, Ltd., 1989. Estes, Richard. The Safari Companion. Simon & Schuster, 1991. MacDonald, David (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Mammals. Vol. 2. London: George, Allen & Unwin, 1984. Redmond, Ian. "Africa's Four Legged Whale," Wildlife Conservastion. Jan.-Feb. 1991, pp 60-69 ...
- 1355: Global Warming
- ... 1986) Bright, M., The Greenhouse Effect (1991) Fisher, David E., Fire and Ice: The Greenhouse Effect, Ozone Depletion, and Nuclear Winter (1990) Houghton, J., et al., eds., Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment (1990) Monastersky, Richard, "Time for Action," Science News, Mar. 30, 1991 Moss, M., and Rahman, S., Climate and Man's Environment (1986) Schneider, S. H., Global Warming (1989) Seitz, F., Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem (1990) Shands ...
- 1356: The EPA: Can It, Will It Save Our Environment?
- ... Agency is trying to fix our home, the planet Earth. Destruction of forests, land degradation, atmosperic contamination, and water scarcity are some of the major environmental problems. In 1970, the EPA was created by President Nixon to protect the public health and environment. The cancer-causing DDT was banned in 1972 and was found accumulating in the food chain. The use of lead in gasoline was phased out in '73 which ...
- 1357: Dinosaurs
- ... name of large extinct reptiles of the Mesozoic Era, during which they were the dominant land animals on Earth. The term was proposed as a formal zoologic name in 1842 by the British anatomist Sir Richard Owen, in reference to large fossil bones unearthed in southern England. The various kinds of dinosaurs are classified in two formal categories, the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, within the subclass Archosauria. The first recorded dinosaur ...
- 1358: The Atom
- ... Haeckelism carried to a cold extreme. It stifled Neils Bohr as a biological Haeckelism and stifled Christian Bohr and as a similar authoritarianism in philosophy and in bourgeois Christianty had stifled Soren Kierkegaard. Bibliography Rodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Ssimon and Schuster, 1986. "Nuclear Wapon." The Enclopedia Britannica. Encylopedia Britannica In. Chicago V8; 1991, p 820-821.
- 1359: Ozone
- ... decrease traffic in the city, thereby cutting down smog. Power plants have shut down, and increased regulations have been installed in order to remedy the serious problem of pollution. Bibliography Harte, John, and Cheryl Holdre, Richard Schneider, and Christine Shirley. Toxics A to Z. pp 372-74. University of California Press: Los Angeles, 1991. "Ozone Most Harmful to Trees" USA Today Magazine. June 1992. pp 9-10 Scott, Geoff. "The Two ...
- 1360: Crystals: Does Surface Tension Affect the Process of Crystallization?
- ... and Properties of Solids, Philadelphia, Heydon, 1982. "Cohesion", Encarta 95, Microsoft, Seattle, 1995. "Crystals", Encarta 95, Microsoft, Seattle,1995. http://www.hamptonresearch.com/crystalgrowth.htm "Surface Tension", Encarta 95, Microsoft, Seattle, 1995. Smoot, Robert C., Richard G. Smith, Jack Price, Chemistry, McGrawl-Hill, New York, New York, 1998.
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