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- 5531: The Kangaroo
- ... soft and woolly and some can have stripes on them. The kangaroo's body is specially built for jumping. It has two long, powerful hind legs with four toes on each. The front legs are short and have five toes with claws. These paws are used to handle food. Most of it's weight it in the hind legs and tail. Kangaroos can jump across flat land up to thirty miles ...
- 5532: The Environment Is Going To Hell
- ... upon us, and we're living on borrowed time. The laws of population growth are inexorable, Unless we act decisively, the final result is written in stone: mass poverty, famine, starvation, and death.Time is short, and we have to act now. That's the standard adn canonical litany. It's been drilled into our heads so far and so focefuly that to hear it yet once more is ... well, it ...
- 5533: The Serious Problem of Acid Rain
- ... life. All the fish in 140 lakes in Minnesota have been killed, and the salmon and trout populations of Norway's major rivers have been severely reduced because of the increased acidity of the water. Short-term increases in acid levels kill lots of fish, but the greatest threat is from long-term increases, which stop the from fish reproducing. The extra acid also frees toxic metals which were previously held ...
- 5534: Acid Rain
- ... must be worried about for they will soon become extinct. A fact that may please fishermen is that in lakes/rivers they tend to catch older and larger fish. This may please them in the short run however they will soon have to change lakes for the fish supply will die quickly in these lakes. The problem is that acid causes difficulties the fish's reproductive system. Often fish born in ...
- 5535: Life On Other Planets?
- ... scientists across the globe for many years now. There is an immense amount of existing evidence that suggests to us that life exists beyond Earth's boundaries, into the gigantic universe surrounding Earth itself. In short, most biologists now believe that life is an inevitable consequence, given enough time and the right kind of environment, of the basic physical and chemical laws of the universe (Chandler, 3). It is clear to ...
- 5536: Cloning
- ... many embryos have been made, no cow that we know of has been successfully cloned. Even to clone Dolly, it took 277 attempts before a success. Attempts to clone humans are also currently being cut short. A British ban on cloning, a ban on cloning currently in the works in the U.S., and a current ban on the use of federal money for then research of cloning humans all make ...
- 5537: Effects of Dam Building
- ... exchange money for the deterioration of our own animals, plants and land. The is the environmental age and humans must respond by changing their ways and looking at the long-term prospect instead of the short-term. Until we as the users and protectors of the land can do this, future of our great human civilization will continue to look grim.
- 5538: The Hand
- The Hand I enjoyed this short story. It was well written, easy to understand, and the descriptions were very good. Upon my first reading of the story I as unsure of what the symbolism was. I knew that hand had to ...
- 5539: Oxygen
- ... oxygen is a mixture of three isotopes. Natural occurring oxygen 18 is stable and available commercially, as is water (H2O with 15% 18O). Commercial oxygen consumption in the U.S. is estimated at 20 million short tons per year and the demand is expected to increase substantially. Oxygen enrichment of steel blast furnaces accounts for the greatest use of the gas. Large quantities are also used in making synthesis gas for ...
- 5540: The Orgins of Atomic Theory
- ... believe that the atom's components are indivisible. We think that they are the beginning of the universe, but who is to say that in two thousand years people will not be writing about how short-sighted we were in our assumption that because we could not see any division in the proton we assumed there was not one. Would it make the work of Rutherford or Bohr any less important ...
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