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M Langley

Nicholas and Alexandra - 0 views

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  • Only the remains of Tsarevich Alexis and one of the younger daughters (either Maria or Anastasia) have not been found. Their bodies are believed to have been incinerated.
  • As we now know, the imperial family was killed because the city where they were being held by the Red Army was soon to be overrun by the anticommunists. In the midst of the chaos of civil war, the Bolshevik leaders, thousands of miles away in the Kremlin, deemed it expedient to kill the Romanovs rather than risk their capture during evacuation to a safer place.
V Dang

Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Debatabase - Debate Topics and Debate ... - 0 views

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  • In 2006, the US House of Representatives passed for the tenth time a motion that would allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska.
  • Environmentalists oppose such drilling on the grounds that the 19 million acre Refuge is ecologically sensitive
  • Supporters of drilling claim that growing foreign dependence on oil threatens American security and that drilling in ANWR would help reduce that dependence.
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  • drilling and extraction of oil would not meaningfully harm the environment.
  • foreign oil is inevitable and that drilling in ANWR would not significantly reduce dependence,
  • Drilling is supported by the Bush Administration
  • most Congressional supporters of drilling are Republican
  • most opponents Democrats,
  • pipeline actually increased caribou numbers
  • An oil pipeline runs through ANWR already,
  • Substantial amounts of time and energy are needed for drilling
  • he USA needs urgently to reduce its dependence on foreign oil producers
  • United States needs 10 million barrels of imported oil a day
  • much of this comes from unstable or unfriendly areas
  • Persian Gulf, Nigeria, Venezuela and Iran.
  • American economy is never held hostage to foreign oil interests
  • government should act to achieve energy independence
  • Consumption is inevitable
  • renewable energy have not made clear how opening ANWR
  • NWR could speed up the transition by making the US more dependent on foreign oil in the future
  • Drilling in the ANWR is an economic necessity.
  • high cost of oil over the past few years
  • heating oil
  • high gas prices for their automobiles
  • osts are also hitting the wider economy and threatening American prosperity
  • bringing more oil to the market can prices be driven down
  • ringing investment and safeguarding jobs as well as the way of life on America’s last frontier.
M Mizusawa

Pesticides | The Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment - 0 views

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  • PESTICIDES* October, 2008
  • These are chemical compounds used to kill pests, including insects, rodents, worms, weeds, and fungi.
  • organophosphates (e.g. parathion, chlorpyrifos [trade name Dursban])  carbamates (e.g. aldicarb, carbaryl)  pyrethrins/pyrethroids (pyrethrin, deltamethrin)  chlorinated hydrocarbons (e.g. DDT, lindane [trade name Kwell])  organometallic pesticides (e.g. various arsenic and mercury compounds)  nitrophenols (e.g. 2,4-dinitrophenol)  herbicides (e.g. diquat, paraquat)
    • M Mizusawa
      M Mizusawa on 21 Apr 09
       
      Classes of pesticides
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  • Over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year in the U.S. alone as well as over 4 billion pounds worldwide.3
    • M Mizusawa
      M Mizusawa on 21 Apr 09
       
      See bottom highlight.
  • [3] Schenker M, Louie S, et al.Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Third Edition. Pesticides.Lippincott-Raven Publishers 1998;83:1157-70.
    • M Mizusawa
      M Mizusawa on 21 Apr 09
       
      Citation
j regan

To: - 0 views

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V Dang

Pros and Cons of Oil Drilling - 0 views

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shared by V Dang on 21 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Life Without Fossil Fuels US Election: Obama Shifts Policy on Offshore Oil Drilling As Petrol Prices Soar Bush Calls for Lifting of Ban on Alaska Oil Drilling Senate Blocks Attempt to Allow Oil Drilling in Alaskan Wildlife Reserve Oil drilling in wildlife park gets nearer Senate vetoes oil drilling in Alaska refuge Automakers Turn to Technology to Break US Addiction to Oil Oil Pollution and What It Is Doing to our World Sweden Plans to Be World's First Oil-free Economy Pollution Rules for Us Oil and Coal Eased
    • V Dang
      V Dang on 21 Apr 09
       
      All of these links go to Buzzle.com (this site). (Also, strange name with a bee as the logo.)
  • By Ningthoujam Sandhyarani
    • V Dang
      V Dang on 21 Apr 09
       
      Strange name. No expert information. Hmm... Makes me think.
  • oil import level increases and consequently, affecs the overall country's income
    • V Dang
      V Dang on 21 Apr 09
       
      Important fact as a "pro" for oil drilling. Also, "affects" is spelled wrong ("affecs"????).
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  • Another benefit of oil drilling is that drilling itself and development of land after the process will help in engaging people, thus creating jobs for hundreds of citizens
  • Overall, oil drilling will improve the economy of the people and the country.
  • oil drilling can be done without damaging the environment and/or disturbing the plant and animal habitats
  • One of the major negative impacts of oil drilling is the environmental issue
  • f oil production rate is higher, then there will be more usage, thus generating more greenhouse gases.
  • It is obvious that the drilling process will disturb the organisms surviving in those areas
  • The success rate of drilling is also very low, meaning that it may take lots of time and the outcome is unpredictable.
  • Another major issue is offshore drilling; starting from locating to the drilling process, it disturbs the sea environment.
  • While locating oil, the seismic waves and the associated sound affects the sea organisms and another debate is about oil spillage in the seas.
  • Since, oil is a non-renewable energy source, why not save energy for the future generations by looking out for alternative energy source like solar energy, hydroelectric powers and wind energy
  • Oil drilling is the process of extracting crude oil by drilling through the cap rock
  • Seismology is found to have a 10 percent success rate of discovering oil sites.
  • Other techniques used for locating oil are satellite imaging, sniffers (electronic noses to smell hydrocarbons), magnetometers and gravity meters.
  • According to this method, shock waves are sent to the land surface or sea surface, to estimate the time taken by the waves to return back
  • As organisms die, they settle at the sea bottom, which are then covered by layers of mud and sediment depositions
  • anaerobic microorganisms act slowly on the dead plants and animals in the absence of oxygen, forming carbon-rich organic layers
  • organic layer along with sediments is called the source rock (fine-grained shale)
  • Due to the overlying sedimentary layers, the organic layer is subjected to high temperature and pressure
  • distillation of organic material occurs, leading to the formation of crude oil and natural gas
  • crude oil is a fossil fuel that is found deep under the Earth's surface, trapped between the rock layers
  • It is formed from the remains of plants and animals in the seas, after being subjected to high temperature and pressure conditions
L. Saxe

Media influence, teenage behavior, A Family Guide - 0 views

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    media inflence
i ignaciuk

How The Media Affects Teen Girls-Instead Of TV - 0 views

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shared by i ignaciuk on 21 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Then western television programs were introduced, including “hits” such as ER, Melrose Place and Xena: Warrior Princess. Three years later, the eating disorders in girls on the island rose to 15%. A surprising follow-up study reported 74% of Fijian girls feeling “too fat or big” and 62% had dieted in the last month—surprising in a culture that typically upholds curvaceous women as beautiful.
  • Harvard study (Fat Talk, Harvard University Press) published in 2000 revealed that 86% of teenage girls are on a diet or believe they should be on one. Diets are common among both teens and children. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, 51% of 9 and 10-year-old girls actually feel better about themselves when on a diet
  • “sexy” and “thin” are in!
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