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The Cardinal is probably one of the most recognizable and popular backyard birds because of its brilliant red color and crested head. It is a great bird to admire year-round. The color contrast of the brilliant red against fresh white snow really is a high point during the winter months. Early settlers were said to hav...
Create a Continuous Binding Strip for Your Quilt When making bias strips for your quilt, you can either create one long strip or cut individual strips and then sew them together to get the length you need. You can use either of these methods to produce different types of bias binding. To end up with a continuous bindin...
How to Enter Basic Formulas in Excel 2007 As entries go in Excel 2007, formulas are the real workhorses of the worksheet. If you set up a formula properly, it computes the right answer when you first enter it into a cell. From then on, it keeps itself up to date, recalculating the results whenever you change any of the...
In 1990, the U.S. set the example for protection of the rights of people with disabilities in its Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA became the template for many nationsí laws on disability rights and was recently the model used to design the United Nationsí Treaty on Disabilities Rights. Knowing this, it is diff...
The alarm went off at 7 a.m. the morning my wife and I were leaving for Hawaii some years ago – but I was already awake. I had been hit early in the evening with severe nausea and stomach cramps. The ride to the airport was pretty rough, but the eight-hour flight to the island paradise was near misery. I spent most of ...
Why Teach Engineering In High School? This PDF document and this PowerPoint file from the American Society for Engineering Education provide an overview of why teaching engineering in high school makes sense. Some of the benefits include: - Engineering topics are everywhere - Engineering combines math and science topic...
The report shows that the majority of Iowa public school students in grades 3-8 and 11 met the state's annual objectives. In addition, 92.5 percent of Iowa's public school districts and 75 percent of Iowa schools were not identified as needing assistance for the 2009-2010 academic year. The report card has some new inf...
Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement Project-learning teaching strategies can also improve your everyday classroom experience. Tristan de Frondeville Credit: Courtesy of PBL Associates As a teacher, my goal was to go home at the end of each day with more energy than I had at the beginning of the day. Seriously. Now, ...
Skip to main content More Search Options A member of our team will call you back within one business day. Risk factors are habits and conditions that make heart disease more likely. The more you have, the higher your chances of heart attack, also known as acute myocardial infarction, or AMI, and other problems. Most ri...
Asthma: Using an Asthma Action Plan What is an Actionset? If you or your child has asthma that requires daily treatment, it is important to have an asthma action plan. An asthma action plan is a written plan that tells you what asthma medicine to take every day and how to treat an asthma attack. It can help you make qu...
An abscessed tooth is a tooth that has a pocket of pus in the tissue next to it. This often occurs because the inside (pulp) of a tooth is infected and the bacteria spread to the tissue underneath the tooth. An abscess usually causes throbbing pain in the tooth and red, swollen gums. eMedicineHealth Medical Reference f...
Definition of Cowper's gland Cowper's gland: A tiny gland in the male, also known as the bulbourethral gland. Named after the English anatomist William Cowper (1666-1709). See: Bulbourethral gland.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary Last Editorial Review: 10/9/2012 Medical Dictionary Definitions A - Z Search Medical D...
Kevin Vosper wrote: (Yes I know it's not strictly true but it is a good example). Kevin Vosper wrote:So a better example would be "Tony Blair has been Prime Minister since 1987." The example is "good" in that it illustrates the fact that the present perfect deals with past time from the point "now." It looks back in ti...
Oceana Petitions the Government to Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtles The majestic loggerhead sea turtle, an animal that has inhabited Earth longer than man, faces extinction because of human activities, such as threats from fishing gear. In fact, loggerhead sea turtle populations in the Atlantic are plummeting and a recen...
American Scientists Make Great Leap in Battery Technology One of the primary concerns with owning an electric vehicle is cost of the battery, the range it offers, and the time it takes to recharge. Those concerns will be significantly lessoned with the development of a new lithium-ion battery. Designed by scientists at...
Trilobite Olenoides erratus. Source: Mark A.Wilson A fossil is the preserved remain of a lifeform that lived in prehistoric times. Most commonly fossils are mineralized parts or a whole organism which is no longer alive. In other cases the fossil may contain actual remains of the dead organism; in particular, DNA may b...
What Are the Six Common Air Pollutants? The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for six common air pollutants. These commonly found air pollutants (also known as "criteria pollutants") are found all over the United States. They are particle pollution (often referred to as particulat...
Ozone - Good Up High Bad Nearby What Causes "Bad" Ozone? Ground-level or "bad" ozone is not emitted directly into the air, but is created by chemical reactions between oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the presence of sunlight. Emissions from industrial facilities and electric utilities, ...
Your gelding scrapes the front of his hind cannon. Should it be bandaged? Use these criteria to help you decide how to handle any leg wound: - Depth. Wounds that penetrate all the way through the skin—enabling you to see the underlying tissues—provide deep access for infection-causing bacteria and are best covered unti...
Economic growth in India has no automatic connection to reducing undernutrition in Indian children and so further reductions in the prevalence of childhood undernutrition are likely to depend on direct investments in health and health-related programs. These are the conclusions of a large study by researchers at the Sc...
What Your Blood Pressure Says About You Here's how to get the most from your blood pressure readings. Medically reviewed by Lindsey Marcellin, MD, MPH Doctors have been measuring patients’ blood pressure, the force that blood exerts on the inside walls of your vessels — since the first sphygmomanometers (yes, that's wh...
A Lost Human Race: Neanderthal Today, it has been definitively verified that Neanderthal man, who is presented as the "primitive ancestor of man" by evolutionists, is simply a lost human race. Trinkets made of bone, which belonged to the Neanderthals. Neanderthals are human beings who suddenly appeared 100,000 years ag...
|THE ROSARY DISSECTED| |T. L. Frazier the most emblematic sacramental in Catholicism is the rosary, that string of beads with a crucifix attached. Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart pictured one on the dust jacket of his anti-Catholic book, <Catholicism and Christianity>.1 Swaggart wrote, "The rosary (or prayer beads) was in...
If you have trouble writing or coming up with ideas a story project plan may be just the thing to help you on your way. The very first thing you must decide on is the type of genre you want to write. If you are unsure of what the genres are, here is a good explanation you can study as well as here. Once you have your s...
Collier, John, 1884–1968, American social worker, anthropologist, and author, educated at Columbia and the Collège de France. After holding several positions in community organization and social work training, he became active in Native American affairs in 1922. Collier was editor of the magazine American Indian Life f...
Antianxiety drugs, including the propanediol meprobamate (Miltown or Equanil), and the more recent benzodiazephines—such as diazepam (Valium)—have found wide use in reducing tension and anxiety among individuals with less serious mental disorders, but may lead to addiction if abused. Although they form a chemically div...
Compiled Records for Mid-South ResearchEdit This Page From FamilySearch Wiki This is a bibliographic essay of compiled records for doing Mid-South Research, which includes Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Most of the compiled records come from published sources...
Your skin in the largest organ of your body, one of your first lines of defense from illness and can be a window into undiagnosed medical problems in your body. Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U. S. affecting almost one in eight Americans. Regular examination of the skin by both you and your doctor...
Earlier chapters have presented all the key elements of an observer programme. This final chapter gives a brief overview on how to put all the elements together. Three aspects are considered: design, implementation and maintenance. There are two main sets of influences that condition the framework of a programme. Polic...
|No.4 October 2008| |Crop Prospects and Food Situation| North African countries have been seriously affected by high international cereal prices due to their high dependence on imports. Governments have implemented a series of measures aimed at offsetting the sharp increase in world prices, including the waiving of tar...
Go ahead and punch me in the face for being such a dweeb, but seeing Terrence Mallick’s Tree of Life really did have a fairly profound effect on my relationship with Mother Nature. It was apparent pretty much from the moment I walked out of the theater; something about the director’s vision just put me a bit more in tu...
To access the remainder of this piece of premium content, you must be registered with Firehouse. Already have an account? Login Register in seconds by connecting with your preferred Social Network. Complete the registration form. The kid was skating all over the place. Down the stairs, down the rails, over onto the fou...
Posted on August 9, 2012 by mazecontroller Each of the previous editions of Legend of the Five Rings was connected to a specific time period. The first edition was set before the events of the CCG. The second edition bumped the timeline to the Time of the Void. The third edition came out current with the CCG story at t...
One in six Americans will get sick from food poisoning this year. That’s about 48 million people. Most of them will recover without any lasting effects from their illness. For some, however, the effects can be devastating and even deadly. Here are some serious effects associated with several common types of food poison...
Enough is Enough “Enough should be the central concept in economics,” writes Herman Daly, a Global Footprint Network advisor and one of the founders of ecological economics, in the forward to the fascinating new book, “Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources.” The book challenges...
This report card is the third in a series that started in 2009 as part of the programme Making the Forest Sector Transparent, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), implemented in seven countries (Cameroon, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Liberia, Peru, DRC), and coordinated by Global Witness. As ...
When you think of allergic reactions, you probably envision itchy eyes and a runny nose. But an allergic reaction can occur in the esophagus ? your food pipe ? as well. Symptoms happen when your immune system produces too many white blood cells in reaction to an allergy-causing substance. The white blood cells involved...
Second-hand smoke is no longer just a threat if you live with or stand close to someone smoking a cigarette. Harmful particles are making their way into the air at large, making it a larger pollution concern than some people initially thought. The Kentucky Center for Smoke-free Policy (KCSP) conducted a research study ...
A Discussion on Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert The Frick Collection's "St. Francis in the Desert" (c. 1475-78) by Giovanni Bellini ranks among the most important Italian Renaissance paintings in America. We invite the public to listen-in as a group of invited scholars discuss the painting from the perspective of t...
Fire and Invasive Plants -- Combustibility of Native and Invasive Exotic Plants Alison C. Dibble, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 686 Government Rd., Bradley, ME 04411 William A. Patterson III, Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Massachusetts, Amhers...
Register New Player Welcome to our world of fun trivia quizzes and quiz games: Studies Have Shown... "What do the results of the latest study really prove? This quiz explores the techniques used to avoid inferring too much from scientific studies and tests." 15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit I'll bet you've ...
Baden Mennonite Church (Baden, Ontario, Canada) The Baden Mennonite congregation began services in 1913 and formally organized in 1945. The first building was occupied in 1913. Peter Moyer is considered the founding leader of the group. The congregation originated through the outreach of Peter Moyer, with the vision of...
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world’s natural wonders. It is a place where people from all over the world flock to, in order to dive or snorkel in the waters that surround it and marvel at the vast array of colours and sea life that live there. One would expect a place as diverse and important as this to be prot...
Garden Talk: February 4, 2013 From NGA Editors 2013 Espoma Environmental Stewardship Award Environmental stewardship begins at home. One way to do this is to incorporate sustainable, ecologically sound practices into the gardening and landscaping you do. Creating and maintaining an environmentally-friendly landscape, g...
The New England aster (Aster novae-angliae) is a bushy perennial that produces beautiful masses of daisylike blooms in the fall. Delicate ½- to 1-inch flowers feature pink or purple ray florets, either with contrasting yellow or complementing pink disc florets. Native to prairie regions of the United States and Canada,...
Born in the lab In early summer of 1965, a University of Florida assistant coach sat down with a team of university physicians and asked them to determine why so many of his players were being affected by heat and heat related illnesses. The researchers - Dr. Robert Cade, Dr. Dana Shires, Dr. H. James Free and Dr. Alej...
How does Amazon’s founder spend his down time? Catching up on email in the middle of the Atlantic while monitoring the progress of his crew recovering historic space artifacts from the bottom of the ocean. Jeff Bezos reports this morning that his Bezos Expeditions has recovered significant pieces of two F-1 rocket engi...
Historical Documents & Records Search Tips Historical Documents & Records Last and First Name Search - Searching both first and last name fields returns historical documents and records where the surname is "near2" the first name. - The search engine will automatically find the first and last name occurrences within tw...
A new type of white blood cell has been identified that activates a killing immune response to an external source—providing a new potential target for vaccines for conditions such as cancer or hepatitis B. Publishing in the journal Immunity, a team of researchers from Newcastle University in collaboration with A*STAR’s...
of lakes dot the marshy Arctic tundra regions. Now, in the latest addition to the growing body of evidence that global warming is significantly affecting the Arctic, two recent studies suggest that thawing permafrost is the cause of two seemingly contradictory observations both rapidly growing and rapidly shrinking lak...
Formed in 1997, Global Fund grantee Woman of Tomorrow (Femme de Demain) works with women who have been "forgotten," who live on land that has been so over-farmed it is depleted of nutrients. Many of them are heads of households, widows, teen mothers or young girls orphaned by AIDS. They cannot read, and are subject to ...
Updated: March 8, 2013 3:25 AM EST AP PHOTOS: Images from Japan's nuclear disasterThe Associated Press Two years after a powerful earthquake and tsunami wrecked Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, many towns nearby remain abandoned, too affected by radiation for residents to return for more than short visits. Abo...
Travel to Northern India: Konarak The Sun Temple at Konarak is a superlative in a country of superlatives. Built, it appears, in the 13th century, it was abandoned after the Muslim invasion of Orissa early in the 16th. Composed largely of khondalite, a gneiss that weathers easily, without maintenance the temple began t...
The Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) Brochure U.S. General Services Administration Office of Governmentwide Policy Committee Management Secretariat Washington, DC 20417 Advisory committees have played an important role in shaping programs and policies of the federal government from the earliest days of the Republi...
British consumers love cheese, milk and yoghurt, but to keep the cows producing all that milk, they need to keep calving. This works out fine for female calves, but not so great for young bulls. As the offspring of dairy herds such as Guernsey, Ayrshire and Friesians, these bull calves do not tend to grow up to make go...
Alice and Bob in I/O Land [Click here to start] This lecture is also available in one big HTML file Table of contents Alice, Bob And Their Race To Disk-Haven Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - A Partial Recap Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - A Partial Recap - Cont. Meet Alice - the 16KB "write" that could Alice goes ...
Broken or knocked out tooth The dentist's term for a knocked out tooth is "avulsed." Teeth - broken; Tooth - knocked out A permanent tooth that is knocked out can sometimes be reimplanted. In most cases, only permanent, adult teeth are reimplanted into the mouth. Baby teeth are usually left out. Immediately contact you...
A person may need emergency treatment after a suicide attempt. They may need first aid, People who try to commit suicide may need to stay in a hospital for treatment and to reduce the risk of future attempts. Therapy is one of the most important parts of treatment. The condition that may have caused the suicide attempt...
Cloud computing as commonly defined is when a business gives its data, applications, storage and computational power to a cloud computing provider and accesses those resources via the public Internet. It's been a godsend for many organizations, most notably small enterprises that can save enormously on infrastructure c...
Patients have a hard time understanding the differences between screening tests and diagnostic tests. The most misunderstandings or misconceptions that seem to arise during pregnancy revolve around screening for aneuploidy (fetal chromosomal abnormalities). Even for providers, this can be a complex and confusing issue ...
As a preschooler, your child should have a healthy attitude toward eating. Ideally, by this age she no longer uses eating—or not eating—to demonstrate defiance, nor does she confuse food with love or affection. Generally (although almost certainly not always), she’ll now view eating as a natural response to hunger and ...
Bullying is any behavior person(s) exhibit that intends to harm or distress a targeted person(s) consistently. The types of bullying are: Physical - Verbal - Cyber - Relational (Social Aggression) Your child feels sad about attending school - Refusal to go to school - Loss of personal items such as toys, clothing or lu...
December 22, 2006 Growing New Limbs the Zebrafish Way A zebrafish tail fin one day after amputation is shown on the left. The image on the right shows that by ten days post amputation, the tail fin has regenerated. A lost tail fin can really slow down a zebrafish - at least for a week or so, until it grows a new one. N...
On this day in 1863, Union General Ulysses S. Grant breaks the siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in stunning fashion by routing the Confederates under General Braxton Bragg at Missionary Ridge. For two months following the Battle of Chattanooga, the Confederates had kept the Union army bottled up inside a tight semicirc...
In the streets of Prague and in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, Czechs protest against the Soviet invasion of their nation. The protests served to highlight the brutality of the Soviet action and to rally worldwide condemnation of the Soviet Union. On August 21, 1968, more than 200,000 troops of the W...
Holly’s Wastewater Treatment Plant”s (WWTP) primary responsibility is to safely transport and treat wastewater before returning it to the area waterway. The goal of wastewater treatment in any community is to eliminate disease-causing bacteria and to protect the environment for human and aquatic life. Before modern met...
One of the most common uses of Flash memory is for the basic input/output system of your computer, commonly known as the BIOS (pronounced "bye-ose"). On virtually every computer available, the BIOS makes sure all the other chips, hard drives, ports and CPU function together. Every desktop and laptop computer in common ...
The EDUSS Solution consists of five individual tools that provide you with a complete homeschool curriculum solution covering math, English grammar, comprehension, vocabulary and phonics reading. Gap Scan Technology: The EDUSS Gap Scan Technology is the intelligent multi-dimensional assessment engine that has the abili...
Research Study Types There are many different types of research studies, and each has distinct strengths and weaknesses. In general, randomized trials and cohort studies provide the best information when looking at the link between a certain factor (like diet) and a health outcome (like heart disease). These are studie...
Census of Population and Housing [United States], 1970: Fifth-Count Tallies: Sample Data for School Districts (ICPSR 3524) Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census Summary: These Fifth-Count Tallies by school district were created from the assembled and edited 20-percent, 15...
Hyped Arsenic Bacteria Research 'Should Not Have Been Published' by Brian Thomas, M.S. * NASA recently issued a series of press releases and arranged a press conference to promote research claiming that life was possible in outer space.1, 2 However, the research drew heavy criticism from scientists around the world, an...
First-Hand:The Foundation of Digital Television: the origins of the 4:2:2 component digital standard Contributed by Stanley Baron, IEEE Life Fellow By the late 1970's, the application of digital technology in television production was widespread. A number of digital television products had become available for use in ...
Frank B. Jewett Frank B. Jewett: Biography Born: 5 September 1879 Died: 18 November 1949 Frank B. Jewett was born on 5 September 1879 in Pasadena, CA, and graduated from the Throop Institute of Technology (later known as the California Institute of Technology) in 1898. He did graduate work at the University of Chicago,...
Important research issues in West Africa are consistent with ILRI’s global livestock development challenges especially the overarching issues of sustainable intensification of crop livestock systems and sustainability/vulnerability in pastoral areas, with other challenges – market opportunities, use and conservation of...
Now, as to this nonsense about secession, let me quote an impeccable authority: “As an American citizen, I take great pride in my country, her prosperity and her institutions, and would defend any state if her rights were invaded. But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Unio...
Cavendish, Henry, 1731–1810, English physicist and chemist, b. Nice. He was the son of Lord Charles Cavendish and grandson of the 2d duke of Devonshire. He was a recluse, and most of his writings were published posthumously. His great contributions to science resulted from his many accurate experiments in various field...
Mars has a striking red appearance, and in its most favorable position for viewing, when it is opposite the sun, it is twice as bright as Sirius, the brightest star. Mars has a diameter of 4,200 mi (6,800 km), just over half the diameter of the earth, and its mass is only 11% of the earth's mass. The planet has a very ...
Recreating the Wright Stuff A full-scale replica of the historic 1903 Wright Flyer was constructed and delivered to NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., for wind-tunnel testing during the spring of 1999. During the tests, engineers studied the biplane's stability, control, and handling at speeds up to ...
Ideally, everyone should be able to study Kabbalah. Kabbalah is the inner wisdom of creation revealed to us by God in order to bring us closer to Him. Clearly, God desires that all human beings come as close to Him as possible. Thus, Kabbalah is important for all people. That said, it is important to clarify that each ...
A slender boy of 14 moves slowly across the room. His full head of long red hair bounces as he walks. His mind is racing. He sits at the oak table near the window of the vast room. On the table is a box; a box that glows with flashing lights and a screen. Printed on the screen is less than 100 words. At the top of the ...
| ||Minding Your Mind || | Psychiatric Treatment for Preschoolers Last reviewed and revised on June 17, 2011 By Michael Craig Miller, M.D. Harvard Medical School The number of medications prescribed to children ages two to four to treat psychiatric disorders increased dramatically after the early 1990s. A Delicate Bala...
The pain from kidney stones can be very severe. So it could easily cause you to feel hot, sweaty and flushed. But simply passing a kidney stone should not cause a fever. When someone is passing a stone or has a stone that is hung up along the urinary tract with a documented fever, my first concern is infection in the k...
A lot of the Irish Workhouses fell into ruin or were burned down in the years after the Famine, but one of the few remaining can be found in the town of Carrick-on-Shannon. Today, it operates as a geriatric hospital called St.Patrick’s and this year, from the 3rd-5th of May, it will revisit the haunting past of its wor...
- 1. A royal seat, or chair of state. The king sits "upon the throne of his kingdom" (Deut. xvii. 18). Pharaoh delegated full power toJoseph to rule over Egypt; "only in the throne will I be greater than thou" (Gen. xli. 40). The royal throne is sometimes designated as "the throne of the kings" (Jer. lii. 32). The most...
Can You Protect In the 3rd century, when Rome dominated Europe, it was able to deploy 50 legions throughout the empire, securing even the furthermost areas. By the following century the empire had lost much of its muscle, however, and Rome's forces had diminished to just 25 legions. Emperor Constantine's problem: How t...
Work began on the Saint Louis Municipal Bridge in 1909. Piers were built, and steel was ordered. The three main steel spans were in place by 1912. At that time, funding ran out, and three successive bonding issues failed to pass during elections. As a result, the bridge sat without the approaches being built. The only ...
Newars' festivals start from Gathanmugah and ends in Sithi Nakhah. Therefore Gathan Mugah is also known as Kayahmacha Nakhah ( the son festival) and Sithi Nakhah is also known as Mhayamacha Nakhah (the daughter festival) in Newar culture. No festival is observed in between Sithinakhah and Gathan Mukhah as the farmers a...
Reading Passages Main Idea & Details Grades 2 - 3 . This reproducible practice book gives students the practice they need to master and reinforce critical reading comprehension skills. High-interest fiction and non-fiction reading passages in a multiple choice and short answer test format will help boost standardized t...
Anyone remember the 19th century adage, “Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you?” I think we’ve all had an experience that has proven this wrong. Words can and do hurt and are unacceptable. But what if what we think the words we’re using are helpful? What if they aren’t? Research conducted...
"Let's sit down and make an oval," sang the enthusiastic group of preschooolers. It's an age when the kids need to learn how to behave in a group, to line up, and to share. But these preschoolers were going beyond those lessons, in a locally developed program called Second Step. "How do you feel?" asked their teacher, ...
January 22, 1879 James Shields: Senator from Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri Many men and women make politics a career and have been elected to Congress three or more times. None, however, have outdone Senator James Shields. Shields was living in Illinois when he was elected to his first term in the US Senate in 1849...
Pig and his friends are playing when they find what looks like an Egyptian treasure map. But they can't make out the symbols! To search for some answers, the super readers soar into the book Naila and the Magic Map and explore the world of ancient Egypt. Will they be able to help Naila unravel the mysterious code that ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 SAN DIEGO Unlike real earthquakes, this one came with a two-minute warning and a countdown. The shaking table began moaning as the machine reproduced an 8.8 magnitude quake, like the one that ravaged Chile. Moving a fully equipped five story building that weighs millions of pounds is no small fe...
The Winchester Dam was built in November 1890 and is in the National Register of Historical Places. Constructed from large timber cribs, the dam was originally built 4 feet high and in 1907 the dam was raised to sixteen feet. Winchester Dam provided water and electricity for the town of Roseburg until 1923. The Winches...
Mon, Mar 16, 2009 -- 9:00 AM Oceans RisingDownload audio (MP3) Sea levels may rise twice as much by the end of this century than was previously predicted. That's according to an announcement last week by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Also last week, the Oakland-based Pacific Institute released a s...
(NewsUSA) - For teens, peer pressure or wanting to escape emotional stress can often lead to prescription drug experimentation, which in turn can lead to abuse, addiction and sometimes a drug overdose. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 70 percent of children age 12 and older say they got prescrip...
Cool Things - Moon Rocks A little piece of the moon is in Kansas in the form of these rocks brought to earth by Apollo 11. When the Apollo 11 spacecraft left the Earth in July 1969, among the items it carried were small flags from each U.S. state, including Kansas. These flags later landed on the moon and traveled acro...
Family Matters: The Money Squeeze Tue May 29, 2012 Listening To Parents Key To Financial Responsibility Originally published on Tue May 29, 2012 3:34 am As an increasing number of Americans live into their 80s and 90s, many families are struggling to find ways to make retirement dollars — that were once supposed to sup...
How safe is your password? The first step in protecting your online privacy is creating a safe password - i.e. one that a computer program or persistent individual won't easily be able to guess in a short period of time. To help you choose a secure password, we've created a feature that lets you know visually how safe ...
Q: Hi, Greg, and thanks for helping me with this question. Who marketed the first front-wheel drive car, either foreign or domestic? Thanks much, Larry F., old-timer from New England. A: Larry, the first consumer-available front-wheel drive, mass-marketed car came from the DKW F1 from Germany in 1931. Other German car ...