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Minimum wage under debate
Slovenia has had a form of statutory minimum wage since 1995, with tripartite agreements on increases in the minimum wage subsequently implemented by law. The system has been criticised, as the minimum wage has become a central reference point for the whole pay structure, with tripartite negot... | <urn:uuid:ef1cc3a8-4711-422d-938d-a1af36377f6e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2004/05/feature/si0405102f.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966141 | 1,917 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Moscow: An asteroid similar in size to the one that exploded over Siberia in 1908 will pass the Earth on February 15 by the smallest-ever recorded margin, American space agency NASA said.
But the asteroid poses no threat of colliding with the planet.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- An ancient town of Assyria in present-day northern Iraq. Its name is sometimes given to the battle fought at Gaugamela, about 97 km (60 mi) away, in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III in 331 B.C.
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A guide to buying a beginner keyboard
Buying a keyboard for a beginner can seem something of a ‘minefield’. If this is an area with which you are unfamiliar, there appears to be endless models and options, with no clear indicator as to which is going to suit your needs best. This guide will explain what you need to loo... | <urn:uuid:21c8c51d-ce41-468b-8d81-5dd18e4f6553> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dawsons.co.uk/blog/buying-a-beginners-keyboard | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703748374/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112908-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953888 | 973 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Establishing a thriving learning environment is instrumental in students obtaining personal success. We must be strategic in how we develop our classroom communities at the beginning of a new school year. The setting must support the whole child, adapting to the needs of the group as everyone settles in for the yearlon... | <urn:uuid:c0ab2676-b784-4913-818f-c3d693c98582> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wholechildeducation.org/blog/tag/Motivation/P10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703748374/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112908-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949828 | 128 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Name of Instrument:
Harmonica, also known as mouth organ or mouth harp
Wind, free-reed instrument meaning wind instruments that have a freely vibrating reed and the pitch depends on the size of the reed.
How to Play:
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A simple flash of light sets high-tech carbon fibers alight, a young researcher has found. The effect adds to the list of the fibers' remarkable properties and could have applications in fields ranging from rocket science to nanotechnology.
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In an invasion planned by the United States Central Intelligence Agency and approved by the Kennedy administration, US-backed Cuban anti-Castro forces landed at the Bay of Pigs but were overcome by Castro’s troops. More than 1100 men were captured in an embarrassing defeat. The prisoners were eventually ransomed back t... | <urn:uuid:389cf54a-0542-4ae8-a4b7-ac09225f2d28> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gilderlehrman.org/category/coverage-people/dwight-d-eisenhower-0?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973631 | 228 | 3.46875 | 3 |
To keep current with changing technology, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing several changes to the Digital Signature Standard (DSS). First issued in 1994 and updated in 1998 and 1999, DSS is used widely by federal agencies and numerous private-sector organizations to confirm the ide... | <urn:uuid:b62ba14b-53ec-4f47-a2a6-cbe60975f3c5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.itsecurity.com/security.htm?s=15002 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.852171 | 360 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Ida B. Wells: “Lynch Law in America”(1900)
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
In “Lynch Law in America,” Wells-Barnett declares that lynching has become a national crime to which all sections of the country have contributed and must bear responsibility. She begins the article by discussing the origin and evolutio... | <urn:uuid:2c6519ea-aeb4-4167-923a-051a55fc8dfa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.milestonedocuments.com/documents/view/ida-b-wells-barnetts-lynch-law-in-america/explanation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968766 | 242 | 3.796875 | 4 |
The most famous fountain in the city of Lyon was made by a Frenchman whose name is not likely to tell you much:
Auguste Bartholdi, originally from the Alsace region.
Doesn’t really ring a bell, non?
His other work, however, is one of the best known monuments in the world.
Ever heard of New York‘s Statue of Liberty, par... | <urn:uuid:1cd65116-7367-46da-8098-e41acf08ee00> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.transparent.com/french/category/culture/art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700438490/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103358-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941103 | 691 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Paul Wray, Faculty, Natural Resource Ecology & Management
Forestry extension at Iowa State University (ISU) and the Forestry Division of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (Iowa DNR) launched a new educational program in 1988 patterned after Extension's highly successful Master Gardener Program. This program was ... | <urn:uuid:8fb72925-0c30-4493-bb51-31cda43b092e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.extension.iastate.edu/ag/success/Old%20POWs/106/2005/1Wray.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700438490/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103358-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924586 | 603 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The body of aviation electronics technician Richard Edson Sweeney is brought ashore from the USS Tucker on its arrival at a port in Japan on April 20, 1969. The destroyer arrived with the bodies of two members of a 31-man crew who manned a U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down by North Korean jets five days earlier over ... | <urn:uuid:a581298e-c9e7-4291-a968-c9d3965ffed5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128337461 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700438490/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103358-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971273 | 1,357 | 2.875 | 3 |
Timing makes a difference when it comes to taking antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs while pregnant. More >
Literate Mothers Boost Children's Test Scores
A study funded by the National Institute of Health has found that the greatest single predictor of a child's academic success is his or her mother's reading skill.... | <urn:uuid:4c6519ff-af4b-47ad-acde-570b59f5621f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/content/kids/art3114.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700438490/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103358-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976908 | 399 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Oscar was adopted as a kitten from an animal shelter and grew up in the third-floor end-stage dementia unit at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The 41-bed unit treats people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses, most of whom are in the end stage of life an... | <urn:uuid:3334147b-276d-4922-9ce0-7e3188a1c344> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bitcheslovewhales.tumblr.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704133142/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113533-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97022 | 727 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Top 10 Fascinating Carnivorous Plants
Out of all the strange plants in the world, who would have thought that you even get flesh eating plants? Well, maybe not so much “flesh” eating, as insect eating, but carnivorous none the less. All carnivorous plants can be found in areas where the soil has very little nutrients. ... | <urn:uuid:ddfcf750-304a-45dc-a304-9e96d404d69a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://listverse.com/2011/06/09/top-10-fascinating-carnivorous-plants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704133142/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113533-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950968 | 2,298 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Cervical cancer occurs in about 2500 women in the UK every year and accounts for about 1000 deaths. It can occur at any age but has a peak incidences in the mid thirties and fifties.
Women with cervical cancer usually present with an abnormal smear or with other symnptoms such as abnormal vaginal bleeding or bleeding a... | <urn:uuid:45af889e-d0bc-4cbc-ab8d-72a5faab526b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gynaecologyclinic.com/colposcopy/cervicalcancer.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704133142/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113533-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935492 | 194 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Near-infrared spectroscopy illuminates medieval art
25 April 2012
Scientists in the US and Italy have borrowed a technique more usually associated with geophysical remote sensing and applied it to medieval artwork - with stunning results. The near-infrared hyperspectral imaging of a leaf from a 15th century illuminated... | <urn:uuid:a7ef2eae-523f-4e83-9b02-fc0ea7eb0481> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2012/April/medieval-art-illuminated-manuscript-near-infrared-spectroscopy-analysis.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704133142/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113533-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942976 | 781 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Why lambda? Why not gamma or delta? Or Siddham ṇḍha?
To my great relief, this question was finally answered when I was reading one of the best Lisp books I've ever read: Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp. I'll save my discussion of that book for later; right no... | <urn:uuid:ae270586-0478-479a-8e18-520e3bcd35a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://technicae.cogitat.io/2012/12/the-secret-history-of-lambda.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706934574/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122214-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930108 | 1,038 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Electric Excitement 1: Grades 4-5
Electric Excitement 2: Grades 6-7
Electric Excitement 3: Grades 8-9
Electric Excitement 4: Grades 9-12
Set includes Electric Excitement Guides 1-4 plus the Helper's Guide.
Electric Excitement 1: Youth explore why certain things insulate from electricity better than others, the effect t... | <urn:uuid:ce0a9f41-d7ed-45dd-9a2b-f5865b71d947> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.4-hmall.org/Product/4-hcurriculum-electric/06882.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706934574/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122214-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.840911 | 313 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Following the discovery of America, Spain embarked upon a program of exploration, conquest, and exploitation of the lands which had been awarded to her by Pope Alexander VI. In 1513 Ponce de Leon explored Florida, and Hernando Cortes conquered Mexico six years later. Texas and the Southwest were first explored in 1528 ... | <urn:uuid:e1a3ce60-731e-4b7c-a3bd-fa2eaf4570e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=24804 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706934574/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122214-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962115 | 12,307 | 3.953125 | 4 |
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Young people are, like any of us, motivated by success. So, formal accreditation of their language skills, however they are acquired and developed, will give them a sense of pride in the same way that they value other certificates in music or swimming skills. In language acquisition the learner does not always have a s... | <urn:uuid:558b35fc-9228-467c-ba7f-fb4fd9ace428> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ourlanguages.org.uk/teaching-learning/accreditation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383218/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960567 | 766 | 3.09375 | 3 |
If you believe that mobile phone use puts your brain at risk from electromagnetic radiation, then a Belgian firm’s latest offering may put your mind at ease. It's a gadget that's said to neutralise a phone’s potentially harmful rays. E_Waves_phone_chip_01 The E-Waves Phone Chip (it's the green dot) The E-Waves Phone Ch... | <urn:uuid:914ae469-5286-4dbe-a15e-418df405ecc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2008/12/09/e_waves_phone_chip/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701063060/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104423-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936597 | 1,652 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Heritage of two World Wars
On June 26, 1917, the first American Expeditionary Forces arrived in France via Saint-Nazaire. The USA had joined the war, fighting alongside the Allies, and chose Saint-Nazaire as one of their most important entry harbours to France and Western European battlefields. Between 1917 and 1919, a... | <urn:uuid:88009d11-ff54-40ba-b13e-fd5c5788072a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://visit-saint-nazaire.com/page_n3/1/16/heritage-two-world-wars.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701063060/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104423-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967859 | 379 | 3.5625 | 4 |
By Thomas H. Maugh II
The Younger Dryas event began about 12,900 years ago and lasted about 1,300 years. The period is named after the alpine-tundra wildflower, Dryas octopetala, which spread southward during the period. Average temperatures during the period dropped by as much as 20 degrees Fahrenheit in Europe, perha... | <urn:uuid:65b7a4c0-b7a4-473f-af4f-f4b367452440> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2012/06/extraterrestrial-impact-killed.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704517601/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114157-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964216 | 1,058 | 3.875 | 4 |
These are sold as good as new and customers are always happy with the biology revision guides around $190 dollars. Due to its vast popularity, it is a growing trend catching on in colleges across the ks3 biology revision a biological directory should be from this same rationale that you can pursue if you can have a web... | <urn:uuid:46c6e960-c43b-4ded-a0b0-07351c7e42bc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tomeduarte.blogspot.com/2012/01/ks3-biology-revision.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704517601/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114157-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943651 | 490 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Victims of traumatic events experience numerous symptoms which can greatly interfere with their lives. Treatment must address not only the traumatic memories, but many other distressing symptoms, such as interpersonal difficulties, emotional withdrawal, anger, guilt, ... | <urn:uuid:4d62b727-1e83-4454-b0df-4b591ab352e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amhc.org/1-anxiety-disorders/article/38504-treatment-for-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704517601/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114157-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939652 | 802 | 3.1875 | 3 |
- (n.) delivery, bringing (the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)) "his reluctant delivery of bad news"
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- (n.) manner of speaking, speech, delivery (your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally) "... | <urn:uuid:415e8487-c97f-4401-b669-f14c3c48e579> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.smartdefine.org/delivery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704517601/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114157-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899589 | 388 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Originally published in 1969, The Rise of Massive Resistance was the first scholarly work to deal decisively with the politics of southern resistance to public school integration. Today, it remains one of the most important books on the subject. Bartley’s study gives a step-by-step account of opposition to desegregatio... | <urn:uuid:40c4d8f0-d135-409b-bc96-9a5620f78291> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lsupress.org/books/detail/the-rise-of-massive-resistance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707436824/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123036-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959236 | 182 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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A major pet health concern in cats is Lymphosarcoma– which is the most common type of feline cancer. Lymphosarcoma is often caused by the feline leukemia virus (FeLV). According to the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, approximately 2% to 3% of all ... | <urn:uuid:465024a8-4011-4950-b445-c2219e7c2984> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.petsbest.com/blog/how-to-prevent-feline-leukemia-and-lymphosarcoma-in-cats/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707436824/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123036-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951019 | 372 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Two of the articles should be of particular interest to journalists interested in how education can help address issues of poverty. One, by economist Greg J. Duncan of Northwestern, Jens Ludwig an economist at the University of Chicago , and Katherine J. Magnuson of the School of Social Work at the University of Wiscon... | <urn:uuid:84774348-6d31-4a06-902f-f8725d6266ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://earlystories.org/tags/brookings-institute/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697442043/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094402-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966488 | 478 | 2.546875 | 3 |
For Zambia’s young people the AIDS response has seen a number of important successes, with a significant 25% decline in HIV incidence over the last decade. However, according to a groundbreaking new report, the AIDS epidemic continues to have a huge effect on the country’s youth, especially young women, and much more n... | <urn:uuid:34ecd8ec-f96c-449f-875d-966b461f38c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aegis.org/DisplayContent/?SectionID=368608 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697442043/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094402-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954801 | 845 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Throughout the Sahel, recurrent drought since the late 1960’s is turning once crop covered land into desert. And the sand is spreading. Picked up by wind, dunes created by soil particles from the West African coastline and the Sahel are covering villages, roads, crops, and irrigation systems, making it increasingly dif... | <urn:uuid:b870aee4-2bd5-4f45-a76e-b51465189283> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mygreenaustralia.com/innovation-of-the-week-putting-a-stop-to-the-spreading-sands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697442043/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094402-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941479 | 772 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Four centuries ago, Francis Bacon said that what a person would like to be true, he preferentially believes. Is there a way to truth that escapes the constraints of personal preference? Can we know the world as it is and not as we wish it to be? Perhaps not. Certainly there is no such thing as Truth with a capital T, f... | <urn:uuid:de21a5e7-9f15-4c44-b301-e02cbc59f018> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.sciencemusings.com/2008/10/heavens-proclaim.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701543416/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105223-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963705 | 596 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Injuries happen to many people around the world. An easy way to get injured is to do sports, athletes get injured this way. The Olympic games can be dangerous, it depends on which sport you're playing. Like skating you could slip or put too much pressure on your knees. Not all people get to go to the Olympics, only the... | <urn:uuid:a5ddf155-e3da-40d1-990c-92ccce98b459> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01155/sports/pages/olympic_injuries_web.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704818711/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114658-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987378 | 479 | 2.90625 | 3 |
The Atlas moth
is a large saturniid
The Saturniidae, commonly known as saturniids, are among the largest and most spectacular of the moths. They form a family of Lepidoptera, with an estimated 1,300 to 1,500 described species worldwide...
moth found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia
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Add a dental visit to this year's spring cleaning list. A professional dental cleaning at least twice a year can improve the state of oral health, reports the Academy of General Dentistry, an organization of general dentists dedicated to continuing dental education.
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Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
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Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow
Contrary to conventional wisdom, stocks are riskier in the long run
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Captain William Latane was the only Confederate soldier killed in J.E.B. Stuart's famous "Ride around McClellan" in the late spring of 1862. Following Captain Latane's death in hand-to-hand combat, his younger brother James loaded his body on a farm cart and carried it to Westwood, the nearby home of Mrs. Catherine Bro... | <urn:uuid:074612c4-4db3-4f81-ba47-7eb13d7564ae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/confederate/officers/latexpl.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708143620/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124223-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971286 | 270 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Washington, Feb 12 (IANS) Exposed to sunlight, ancient carbon trapped in Arctic permafrost melts and collapses, releasing climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air much faster than suspected by scientists.
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Lyme disease is one of the classic examples of an epidemic made by environmental change: As forests and fields are carved up into subdivisions, the habitat that makes the disease spread increases. The mice and deer that carry the black-legged ticks that spread Lyme disease are more numerous, as is the Lyme-causing bact... | <urn:uuid:731e9c1b-ae0d-4fc2-bc22-71b905c5b9ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/chronic-lyme-disease-47050403 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698063918/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095423-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957393 | 401 | 3.046875 | 3 |
World War 1, also known as the First World War or the Great War and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from 1914 to 1919, with the fighting lasting until 1918. The war was fought by the Allies on one side, and the Central Powers on the other. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers or inv... | <urn:uuid:11f01ac2-79fb-4da6-909e-cde635f208dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://worldwar-1.net/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705300740/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115500-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967517 | 868 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Lack of Water in Yangtze Creates Shortage for One Million People
BEIJING -- Falling water levels in China's Yangtze River have left 1 million people short of drinking water, state media reported Monday.A severe drought has caused the water level in China's longest river to plunge over the last two weeks, severely cutti... | <urn:uuid:8899644f-7366-4196-b208-ce009135c154> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.enn.com/energy/article/6082 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705300740/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115500-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949352 | 335 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Does Bird Feeding Affect Bird Behavior?
Ten common questions regarding the pros and cons of bird feeding.
by Dr. David Bird, contributor for The Backyard Bird Newsletter
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Did You Know?
More people are hurt snowboarding than any other outdoor activity, accounting for a quarter of emergency room visits, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study in the journal Wilderness and Environmental Medicine.
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According to American Plastic Manufacturing, a pro-plastic bag source, the average per capita plastic bag use is 500 bags a year. They claim this amount is the equivalent of half a gallon of gas. Alone, this amount seems paltry. But imagine 500 plastic bags clogging ditches, clinging to tree branches, blowing through f... | <urn:uuid:9ef779b2-022e-4890-8dc3-f60670cb0621> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ecowomen.net/2011/02/09/plastic-shopping-bag-facts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708789647/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125309-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947828 | 490 | 2.765625 | 3 |
They are so adorable, cuddly as well as absolutely vulnerable. Polar bears capture the admiration as well as attention of folks the world over for their fluffy bright furs as well as huggable size. They gather respect from animal enthusiasts for their hunting skill and survival techniques in one of the harshest environ... | <urn:uuid:a14c4316-0a6c-4046-b2c7-c579eda0bae9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://feedorama.net/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708789647/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125309-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978104 | 431 | 2.828125 | 3 |
- Advocates equal educational opportunities at all levels for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students.
- Supports official recognition of American Sign Language (ASL)
- Opposes legal, economic and social discrimination for any reason.
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Describe two differences between xylem and phloem.
What happens if water is lost from the leaves faster that it is taken up the roots?
Does all the water which rises up a plant escape through the leaves?
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Neurocysticercosis is caused by the larvae of Taenia solium, a tapeworm found in pork products. The worm is thought to have infected at least 50 million people worldwide.
Neurocysticercosis is most common where pigs are raised and sanitation is poor. In the Western hemisphere, the disease is most common in Mexico and S... | <urn:uuid:8450b0de-9d5e-45ca-a2c0-7aaed32baa49> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://neurology.about.com/od/Epilepsy/a/Neurocysticercosis.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698238192/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095718-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931409 | 1,319 | 3.734375 | 4 |
The five churches highlighted here have distinctive features, including historical significance, unique architectural designs, and stories of miracles.
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“Petavius has no difficulty in refuting Vasquez, by referring to the writers of the seventh century; but he himself speaks of duo genera operationum as equivalent to duo operationes, which introduces an unfortunate confusion between energeia and praxeis or energemata, that is between facult... | <urn:uuid:85135cd5-3123-48a8-bea9-1ca0e8b3398f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wordnik.com/words/energemata | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698238192/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095718-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915482 | 427 | 2.5625 | 3 |
To us, the word Item means more than just
“thingamabob”; it is a technical term with a precise
definition in the context of our source code.
Item is a class. Each instance of the
Item class has:
an analogue in the SQL language
a data type descriptor
All of the following SQL “thingamabobs” are modeled
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Model Early Foreign Language Programs: Key Elements
Douglas F. Gilzow, Foreign Service Institute
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Common Myths about Compact Fluorescents February 10, 2009Posted by Dr. Z Bulbs in Definitions about product..
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Our Three-Decade Recession
The American quality of life has been going downhill since 1975.
The news media and the government are fixated on the fact that the U.S. economy may be headed into a recession -- defined as two or more successive quarters of declining gross domestic pro... | <urn:uuid:a5ca20c1-3a49-4d4c-bee4-e1fa3f1a4fdd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/10/7589 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705618968/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120018-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960201 | 1,037 | 2.921875 | 3 |
On a farm in coastal Maine, a barn is going up. Right now it's little more than a concrete slab and some wooden beams, but when it's finished, the barn will provide winter shelter for up to six cows and a few head of sheep. None of this would be remarkable if it weren't for the fact that the people building the barn ar... | <urn:uuid:108ff074-7322-4233-8e8b-db37f8da9b72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1953692,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705618968/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120018-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961083 | 882 | 2.75 | 3 |
Atom or molecule that in a chemical reaction seeks an atom or molecule containing an electron pair available for bonding or the negative end of a polar molecule (see covalent bond; electric dipole). In the Lewis electron theory (see acid-base theory) advanced by the U.S. chemist Gilbert Lewis (1875–1946) in 1923, elect... | <urn:uuid:f5197cca-d983-44d1-b33b-8d21ce1e6cb5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.merriam-webster.com/concise/electrophile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709135115/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125855-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.863155 | 215 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Birth Of A Market
The market for U.S. Treasury securities is a marvel of modern finance. In 2009 the Treasury auctioned $8.2 trillion of new securities, ranging from 4-day bills to 30-year bonds, in 283 offerings on 171 different days. By contrast, in the decade before World War I, there was only about $1 billion of in... | <urn:uuid:9475cf8b-5680-4a4e-9d21-9d3998688706> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mitpress.mit.edu/books/birth-market | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709135115/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125855-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92886 | 575 | 2.703125 | 3 |
An essay on how the author of Black Boy dealt with racism.
Black Boy Essay
Racism in America dates back to the Colonial era. It is a universal problem because everyone has at least once in their life come across it. Many minorities, such as Blacks and Native Americans have been heavily affected by it. World War II was ... | <urn:uuid:3eaf0bc4-9403-477d-8493-65352a646ceb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://authspot.com/thoughts/black-boy-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699036375/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101036-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988484 | 576 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Q&A: General Astronomy and Space Science
I have never heard of any one mentioning gamma rays. Do
gamma rays exist in space?
There are gamma rays in space, and probably every kind of radiation you can think of. [More information on the electromagnetic spectrum is available at
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Take Advantage of Microclimates!
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BEIJING, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- China's renewable energy law was amended Saturday to require power companies to buy all power generated from renewable resources.
Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported Chinese lawmakers adopted the amendment to China's renewable energy law during a National People's Congress Standing C... | <urn:uuid:aa471751-0024-4fd0-abb9-815c5c43f9c5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/12/26/Amendment-to-Chinese-energy-law-adopted/UPI-42621261867682/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699036375/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101036-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943281 | 178 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Want To Learn Better? Make Things Hard On Yourself
My pick for this week’s best learning video features UCLA psychologist Robert Bjork talking about the surprising way our minds work:
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Flash Of Light Seen Across Southern U.S. Was Likely Meteor
People across the southeastern United States saw an emerald ball of fire cross the sky, last night.
Tulsa's KOTV has security video of the flashes of light:
The flash of light was seen from Oklahoma to Florida, according to the AP. Little Rock's KTHV said the S... | <urn:uuid:af07cac6-49bc-40d0-817a-f93be0cf64c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kunc.org/post/flash-light-seen-across-southern-us-was-likely-meteor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705956263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120556-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955023 | 198 | 2.546875 | 3 |
His (?), pron. [AS. his of him, his, gen. masc. & neut. of h, neut. hit. See He.]
Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.
No comfortable star did lend his light.
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Project, Museum Victoria, 2005-2006
Image: Badge - Immoral Minority Member, circa 1979
Source: Museum Victoria
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender histories have been commonly regarded as 'hidden' histories. Evidence has all too often been actively suppress... | <urn:uuid:a92eb520-6907-428b-9213-c9a0d27c21e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/themes/2730/lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-project-museum-victoria-2005-2006?start=21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710196013/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131636-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930457 | 1,127 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Basic Definition Edit
Specifically: A physical representation of the primary sensorimotor cortex, i.e., the portion of the human brain directly responsible for the movement and exchange of sense... | <urn:uuid:a79bd1b7-2fe1-4c0c-b045-38ba4ba9944b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Cortical_homunculus?oldid=11608 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710196013/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131636-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.821933 | 314 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Chemistry for a Healthier World
Lots of could-be medicines look good on paper—or on a computer screen—but a drug can only do its intended job of treating a symptom or fighting a disease if it gets to the right place in the body to do its job. That's where chemistry plays such a big role, in tweaking molecules to intera... | <urn:uuid:74abf2a8-4ba0-4493-a69a-ddd90b65cb2a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/chemhealth/med.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710196013/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131636-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941731 | 1,008 | 3.75 | 4 |
The EUVI telescope was developed at (LMSAL). The EUVI mirrors were figured and coated at (IOTA) and calibrated at (IAS), the focal plane assembly was developed at NRL and the University of Birmingham, the camera electronics were developed at RAL, and the aperture door was supplied by (MPS). The EUVI observes the chromo... | <urn:uuid:6e93ba2c-2df4-4cc7-9710-ea94ff8cccb2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://secchi.lmsal.com/EUVI/DOCUMENTS/pdfpreview.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710196013/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131636-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905151 | 2,776 | 3.046875 | 3 |
On September 8, 2011, the U.S. Senate passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, which President Obama signed into law on September 16, 2011. The America Invents Act
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Salma (Longinotto, 2013)
When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were Salma’s salvation. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and, through an intric... | <urn:uuid:e161ce69-b55a-4695-88bf-4d6b7d36607f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hertje.com/tagged/girl | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710196013/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131636-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98086 | 133 | 3 | 3 |
Your location is outside the National Library of Australia. Resources you can access:
Informit: Covers agriculture and natural resources including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natur... | <urn:uuid:1a73ad79-c4ca-4ac7-8624-7524bdeee35b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/browse/159/?rows=10&start=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710196013/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131636-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873814 | 665 | 2.703125 | 3 |
At the final I will pass out a sheet that has four questions on it drawn from the eight below. You will have to answer 3 of those four. Each will be worth 12 pts (=36pts)
1. Describe studies that appear to support the notion of a frontally-mediated
STM distinct from LTM.
2. What is social cognition and what mental proc... | <urn:uuid:f8065b76-e937-4ad6-9060-e707d8d6084b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/mrossano/grad_cog/evo_of_cognition/Final.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699675907/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102115-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938862 | 511 | 3.40625 | 3 |
In the Tridentine tradition, today is know as "The Invention of St Stephen, Protomartyr." St Stephen we know. His feast is celebrated on 26 December, when his glorious death at the hands of Jews "stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears" is commemorated. So why a second feast? Because this is the day when (as Ch... | <urn:uuid:31326b98-a56f-43ee-bf5d-07e93e364654> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://conversiaddominum.blogspot.com/2006/08/st-gamaliel.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703317384/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112157-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975644 | 403 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Virgin Islands National Park General Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement
The National Park Service is initiating a major planning effort that will guide the future management of both Virgin Islands National Park and the newly established Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument. This effort will creat... | <urn:uuid:8b0eaf98-a9ef-4177-912d-47b37f9cfa9c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?parkID=412&projectId=11165 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703317384/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112157-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918576 | 651 | 3.078125 | 3 |
The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'ân, by M.M. Pickthall, at sacred-texts.com
5. al-Ma'idah: The Food
1 O ye who believe! Fulfil your indentures. The beast of cattle is made lawful unto you (for food) except that which is announced unto you (herein), game being unlawful when ye are on the pilgrimage. Lo! Allah ordaineth t... | <urn:uuid:a47e4299-26bd-4029-94a4-c081a5da9175> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/005.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703317384/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112157-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963436 | 7,204 | 2.546875 | 3 |
How can parents explain the gospel to their children without toning down the commands of Scripture?
Certainly children are limited in their ability to understand spiritual truth, but so are adults. Very few people intellectually understand all the gospel truth at the moment of salvation. Fortunately, the essential trut... | <urn:uuid:102427ba-0670-4698-9e01-3fa5f96e181b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gty.org/resources/questions/QA123 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703317384/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112157-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958989 | 622 | 2.53125 | 3 |
NORTON, JOHN (Snipe, Teyoninhokarawen), schoolmaster, Indian Department interpreter, Mohawk chief, army officer, and author; b. probably in Scotland, the son of a Scottish mother named Anderson and a Cherokee father named Norton; fl. 1784–1825.
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Words With VILanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Five words that contain VI as a letter-pair have had all of their other letters removed and placed into a pool. Put those letters back in their proper places. What are the words?
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How Home Study Works
How Home Study Works Distance education is virtually a miracle of modern education. It offers the student a quicker method of study, a more convenient method, and a method that provides accurate and proven techniques. Distance education actually brings the school to the student's home, offering a c... | <urn:uuid:ce12999e-e43d-4e4b-824e-630cfd6a819b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.citizenschool.com/howhomestudy.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706413448/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121333-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956858 | 344 | 2.8125 | 3 |
MI5MI5 (Military Intelligence
Like SIS, MI5 has its basis in the Secret Service Bureau, founded in 1909 as an organisation to control secret intelligence operations. The Bureau was originally split into a naval and military section. The naval section came to specialise in espionage activities in foreign countries, whil... | <urn:uuid:91a95809-fde5-40cc-869f-c33d596d19cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/m/mi5.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706413448/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121333-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980803 | 1,888 | 2.875 | 3 |
Heart Disease Found in Ancient Mummies
The mummy of Djeher, a male from the Ptolemaic Era, dated 304-30 BC, entering the CT scanner tube.
CREDIT: Michael Miyamoto.
Scientists have uncovered heart disease in 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummies, suggesting the risk factors behind it are not just modern in nature.
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Thrombocytopenia in Dogs
By: Dr. Leah Cohn
Read By: Pet Lovers
Specific diagnostic tests will be needed for your veterinarian to diagnose thrombocytopenia, determine its underlying cause and determine the effects of thrombocytopenia. Tests may include: A complete medical history and physical examination. You should be ... | <urn:uuid:90e3817e-b8fd-4059-9fdb-a3f7b13f1d77> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.petplace.com/dogs/thrombocytopenia-in-dogs/page4.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706413448/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121333-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927568 | 1,126 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Modern culture views truth as having a gold standard, science. It measures all statements against scientific facts, accepting the ones that align with science and rejecting the ones that do not. Somewhere down the list are religious truths, which are either tossed into the pile of subjective statements or rejected outr... | <urn:uuid:3a0e21e9-c5d8-4ca5-a25b-e27132be3727> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://humblesmith.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/scientists-say-but-do-you-trust-them/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711406217/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133646-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965753 | 1,148 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Article Provided by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
What Are Eating Disorders?
An eating disorder is marked by extremes. It is present when a person experiences severe disturbances in eating behavior, such as extreme reduction of food intake or extreme overeating, or feelings of extreme distress or concern a... | <urn:uuid:fabea478-7693-4043-a1d5-e72f37eb8b69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.anxietytribe.com/health/article/Eating-Disorders/page1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711406217/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133646-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956854 | 559 | 4.0625 | 4 |
In further proof that we never know just how much we don’t know, a paper published in Nature suggests that biologists in the UK have discovered an entirely new and unique branch in the tree of life. A group of mysterious microscopic organisms related to fungus are actually so different that they make up their own kind ... | <urn:uuid:f135eac9-92e8-4117-81af-1941f03ce141> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-05/biologists-discover-entirely-new-branch-life-living-microscopic-level | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711406217/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133646-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966087 | 514 | 3 | 3 |
A new research installation is beaming powerful
radioactive energy into the upper atmosphere.
Exploring conventional and exotic military uses
of the air waves towards its goals.
At a remote facility ringed with barbed wire, a brand-new array of 36 antennas rises from the black spruce forest that stretches hundreds of m... | <urn:uuid:964f5055-5afc-4cf7-9899-6be69b835ff5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/VirtualClassroom/HAARP/acf.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945099 | 3,490 | 3.171875 | 3 |
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How to Help Weak Children Become Strong Dr. S.M. Davis
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The former porter of Sir Joseph Bowley, he had married the former Mrs. Chickenstalker, who operated a grocery store. He was an older man, suffering from the snuffles. He was overweight and had great difficulty breathing
The Chimes, written in Genoa, Italy, is the second of Dickens' Christmas stories in which he attempt... | <urn:uuid:61425a19-4c53-4b25-8441-a9b2f6a2f548> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm/search/collection/dickens2/searchterm/difficulty/field/all/mode/any/conn/and/cosuppress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960162 | 155 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Order materials for use with an FNEP audience (FNP and/or EFNEP)
through your regional office.
Approved Curriculum & Resource Lists
Library of selected teaching materials
These are checklists of all the materials needed for each
curriculum – teaching and marketing materials – as well as where to
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Ulam was a brilliant Polish mathematician who came to this country at the start of the Second World War, became a leading figure in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the top secret project to develop the nuclear weapon that ended that war, and, together with Edward Teller, worked out the design of the th... | <urn:uuid:0f95d16f-33a0-453e-98ef-63dd609444bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://maa.org/devlin/devlin_04_09.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982619 | 1,318 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Avoid the extreme, but beware of household cancer causing items
Aug 28, 2012, 8:40 a.m.
Narrowing down the exact causes of cancer can be difficult. Confusion and misinformation hinders the truth and prevents many homeowners from understanding the nature of cancer causing products. If you are concerned about household c... | <urn:uuid:f635e2ad-40e6-4a9a-96c6-c1b59402927a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://spot55.com/news/2012/aug/28/avoid-extreme-beware-household-cancer-causing-item/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929119 | 377 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Gospel of Luke is the third of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. Although the text does not name its author, the modern consensus follows the traditional view that this gospel and the Acts of the Apostles were written by the same author. T... | <urn:uuid:0bf72ded-4537-4e31-b3cc-994319051c63> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Gospel_of_Luke | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954184 | 1,755 | 3.125 | 3 |
It's is short for it is or it has.
Its is the possessive form of it.
There is often confusion between its and it's. If you delve deeper
into this issue, you will see that there is good reason for the confusion.
However, if you just want to know what is right, the matter is very simple:
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As more and more users gain access to the web, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that your website is accessible to all, not just a few. Just as businesses must comply with the American Disabilities Act to ensure proper access to customers with disabilities, businesses should do all they can to make their web... | <urn:uuid:e3dec8b9-e20e-4e05-866c-c53542413ed4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/6-quick-and-easy-accessibility-issues-that-make-your-visitors-happy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891483 | 648 | 2.75 | 3 |
Equipping students to successfully navigate the complex environmental challenges of the 2lst century by re-thinking, re-designing and creating viable solutions is emerging as a key task for educators. At first glance, the prospect of adding one more responsibility into an already demanding mix of content requirements s... | <urn:uuid:4a847a52-1497-4395-886e-ca1fde2ac0cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://biepbl.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-environment-as-compelling-portal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699924051/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102524-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953708 | 1,053 | 3.578125 | 4 |
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