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Becky Cook

Water Quality Standards Determination for Portion of the Mississippi River around St. L... - 1 views

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    Fact sheet; October 2009 EPA is determining that Missouri needs new or revised recreation designated uses, i.e. whole body contact recreation, for a 28.6-mile portion of an existing 190.5-mile segment of the Mississippi River that flows from Dam 27 to the confluence with the Ohio River.
Gabrielle Gant

New Nanowire Breaks Efficiency Barriers, Researchers Show (VIDEO) - 0 views

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    By John Matson, Scientific American(Click here for original article.) There may be a bit more room at the bottom, after all. In 1959 physicist Richard Feynman issued a famed address at a meeting of the American Physical Society, a talk entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." It was an invitation to push the boundaries of the miniature, a nanotech call to arms that many physicists heeded to great effect.
Tasha Dickerson

Missouri Midwives Association - 0 views

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    Throughout history there have been midwives and there have been physicians. Midwifery is and always has been separate and distinct from the practice of medicine. It should not be included in the definition of the practice of medicine in Missouri law. The word midwife means "with woman."
David Hoffelmeyer

Hydrogen Takes A New Form - Science News - 0 views

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    High-pressure studies reveal long-sought phase Web edition : Thursday, March 1st, 2012 Squeezing hydrogen at extreme pressures changes it into a mix of honeycombed atoms layered with free-floating molecules - an entirely new state of the element and the first new phase found in decades.
Lamar Miller

Google Image Result for http://gothamist.com/attachments/garth/201111_chikhatea.jpg - 0 views

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    More proof of how hated we are
Richard Omoniyi-Shoyoola

Rattlesnakes strike again, bites more toxic - 0 views

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    Each year, approximately 8,000 Americans are bitten by venomous snakes. On average, 800 or so bites occur annually in California, home to an abundance of snake species, but only one family is native with highly toxic venom: rattlesnakes. In San Diego County, the number of rattlesnake bites is increasing as well as the toxicity of the attack.
Adeola Adewale

How old is too old to have a baby? - CNN.com - 0 views

  • Bhateri Devi, 66, gave birth to triplet after receiving fertility treatment
  • No upper age limit in India for those who want to have children using fertility treatments
  • Doctor Bishnoi Anurag says he's successfully impregnated a 70-year-old woma
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  • ritics question what happens to children when they grow older and parents die
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  • it is seemingly simple and has been around for more than 20 years.
  • Bhateri Devi is post-menopausal and has no more eggs. In her case Dr. Bishnoi says he fertilized a young woman's egg with sperm from Devi's husband in a Petri dish and then injected the fetus into his 66-year-old patient's uterus.
  • "Medically it is possible, but medically it is also possible to use the same technique in a pre-pubescent girl.--Dr. Sohani Verma
  • Before the procedure, patients have to take a few months of hormone treatment to prepare the body. This is known as in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a technique being used all over the world.
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    This is a credible site because it is global site. They attribute a local scientistso its sort of like a BBC report.
KiOntey Turner

Wilderness: Chest Injuries Treatment: First Aid Information for Wilderness: Chest Injuries - 0 views

  • The injured person should be given  oxygen at a rate appropriate to the clinical situation.
  • The neck and back of the injured person should be immobilized after a possible chest injury.
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    Information pertaining to an event of an emergency to the chest area.
Lamar Miller

EPA to clean up Carter Carburetor site - St. Louis American: - 0 views

  • The EPA will remove PCBs and TCE from subsurface soils and remove PCBs in two on-site buildings.
  • “This clean-up is absolutely critical because so many children are potentially at- risk across the street at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club,” said U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO).
  • the agency plans a thermally enhanced extraction of two toxins: trichloroethylene (TCE), a chlorinated industrial solvent, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a cancer-causing chemical once used in electrical transformers that were disassembled at a building on the site.
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  • The citizen advocacy group is calling for cleanup goals be expanded to cover all areas impacted by Carter Carburetor, the treatment technology to be proven to work on PCBs on similar sites and at similar concentrations before use at the St. Louis site, the risk assessment scenario expanded to include children of all ages and the cleanup plan protect the health of children and area residents.
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    This article tells about the EPA's plans to clean up the Carter Carburetor site.
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    Plans
David Hoffelmeyer

Exhibit of Medical Atrocities From Nazi Germany on Way to Wash. U. - 0 views

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    One of the lesser-known facts about the Nazis' quest to create a "master race" -- which culminated in the Holocaust -- is that they didn't start with the Jews.
alex walters

Usain Bolt: Case Study In Science Of Sprinting | ThePostGame - 0 views

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    the speed of leg movement has little to do with speed
Marquise Middleton

Chimps Show Lethal Side - Science News - 0 views

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    Killings sometimes occur in communities across Africa PORTLAND, Ore. - In a cooperative venture aimed at understanding the most uncooperative of acts, researchers studying different African communities of wild chimpanzees have pooled their data and found that the apes sometimes kill each other nearly everywhere they've been studied.
David Hoffelmeyer

BBC News - Pesticides hit queen bee numbers - 0 views

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    The dangers of using pesticides
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