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- 961: Flouridation
- ... overlooked liver cancer evidence, but also would have reported clear evidence of carcinogenicity, had they not fallen to pressure from pro-fluoride groups to release a sanitized report (Coffel). In 1978 Dr. Wallace Armstrong, Dr. Robert Hoover, and Dr. Stephen Barret published a two part report on fluoridation for Consumer Reports. These two articles were meant to discredit Yiamouyiannis' findings that fluoridation is linked to cancer. The authors deliberately lied and ...
- 962: Rubidium
- ... s atomic number is 37and its atomic mass is 85.4678. In French and German it is rubidium, in Italian and Spanish it is rubidio. History and General Facts Rubidium was discovered spectroscopically in1861 by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff in Germany. They experimented with spectral lines of light, now called spectroscopy. They noticed that, when heated or burned, different elements produced distinctive colors of light when transmitted through a prism ...
- 963: The Peregrine Falcon
- ... Brazil. American peregrines and Peale's peregrines do not fly as far. The young birds don't need a guide. Instinct tells them where to go when the food supply flies south. When the first frost hits in the south, all peregrines begin following their prey back north. They usually return to their nest, although on some occasions their nest may be gone or they followed their prey into a new ...
- 964: Our Solar System at a Glance
- ... winter. Near-hurricane wind speeds were measured at the two martian weather stations during global dust storms, but because the atmosphere is so thin, wind force is minimal. Viking Lander 2 photographed light patches of frost -- probably water-ice -- during its second winter on the planet. The martian atmosphere, like that of Venus, is primarily carbon dioxide. Nitrogen and oxygen are present only in small percentages. Martian air contains only about ...
- 965: Experiment to See if Soaking A Golf Ball Affects its Distance
- ... solid rubber core, and wrapped the result in a gutta percha cover. Balata rubber soon replaced gutta percha, and dimples first appeared in 1909. The first two piece golf ball was introduced in 1968 by Robert Molitor a Spalding researcher who developed a ball consisting of a solid center with a tough thermoplastic cover. The two-piece ball sacrificed control for distance but has improved so much that today it represents ...
- 966: Crystals: Does Surface Tension Affect the Process of Crystallization?
- ... The Structure 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.
- 967: Abstract from: Cloning : Where Do We Draw the Line?
- ... all of which were sterile. The rest of the frogs that survived grew to abnormally large sizes. In 1993, scientist and director of the in vitro lab at George Washington University, Jerry Hall and associate Robert Stillman, reported the first ever successful cloning of human embryos. It was the discovery of in- vitro fertilization in the 1940s that began the pursuit to ease the suffering of infertile couples. After years ...
- 968: Uranium: Nuclear Friend or Nuclear Foe
- ... negative programs such as weapons. The most famous of these programs was a secret program launched by the U.S. Government in 1942. The project was code named the Manhattan Project, and was headed by Robert Oppenhiemer. This project was created for the sole mission of creating a nuclear weapon using radioactive materials. The scientist involved in the project decided to use uranium and plutonium for the ammo of the nuclear ...
- 969: Devastation of the Rain Forests
- ... is the only earth that we have we should try to take care of it, not destroy the only resources it produces. WORKS CITED 1. Andrew Revkin, The Burning Season (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990) 2. Robert M. McClung, Vanishing Wildlife of Latin America (New York: William Morrow, 1981) 3. Catherine Caufield, In the Rainforest (New York: Random House, 1984) 4. Jamie Shiguango, "An Experiment in Rainforest Conservation" Cultural Survival Quarterly Spring ...
- 970: A Critique Of the Stanford Experiment
- ... they began to abuse they power and abuse the inmates. If only they experiment would have been conducted a year later, Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo may have been able to foresee the outcome by reading Robert Reich's "An American Morality" which includes a parable entitled "Rot at the Top." The last line in the parable just goes to prove my point, "Power corrupts, privilege perverts." I agree with this totally ...
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