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After a second offer,
Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN) and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ONXX), a maker of drugs to fight cancer among other diseases, are in agreement on the offer price. The acquisition of Onyx is going to cost Amgen about $10 billion, or $125 per share. Now that the acquisition is locked stocked and ba... | 1.763135 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
Hugo Chávez’ Health and Succession in Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez remains in a Caracas military hospital, prompting continued speculation in Venezuela and abroad about eventual succession and concerns over political stability—as well as uncertainty about who is in charge.
The president’s uncertain situat... | 1.421033 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Holidays are approaching. Lots of dinners. Lots of relatives. Lots of kids. Lots of food. Lots of dinners. Oh, sorry I already said that. With so much food and so many opportunities to eat, children are going to be involved in many of these occasions. This equates to lots of opportunities to reiterate the need for ... | 1.356859 | 1,006 | 1,004 |
If you’re lucky to have come into some money, you may be wondering if you should pay off all your debt or invest your money. When it comes to knowing the best thing to do, the answer isn’t black and white – it depends on your specific situation and your credit history.
Anyone becomes an investor when they put money int... | 1.834547 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
Do you ever wonder where investors get their market and quote data?
If you’re a hard core stock trader, you know that being a member of the trading club requires that you have at least two computer screens on your desk, with one showing and tracking streaming market data during all open market hours. This is the black ... | 1.747441 | 1,000 | 999 |
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.06.34 G.M. Sifakis, Aristotle on the Function of Tragic Poetry. Herakleion: Crete University Press, 2001. Pp. 206. ISBN 960-524-132-3. $30.00. Reviewed by Elizabeth Belfiore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (esb@umn.edu) Word count: 2326 words
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29) also makes assumptions about concepts and dichotomies that have recently been questioned. Sifakis imports what many would consider to be an anachronistic idea when he discusses "free will" (25 and n. 14), and he appeals to the even more questionable concept of predetermination when he writes: "[t]he construction of... | 1.653626 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
focus in Politics is not on the ritual catharsis needed by abnormal people but on a weaker form of catharsis available to all (83-89), an interpretation supported by Richard Kraut. 2 Even if we accept this idea of a weaker form of catharsis in the Politics, however, it is hard to see how the tragic plot, however much ... | 1.706738 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
in Rhetoric 2.12, which I cite p. 341. It is true that the term "shamelessness" does not appear in this passage, but Aristotle cites such obvious examples of shamelessness as being unable to control one's sexual desires (1389a4-6). I would still maintain that, even though Aristotle does not mention shame and thumos in... | 1.579631 | 1,013 | 1,011 |
There is a good chance you are here because you are actively searching for information on how to build your
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Uncertainty best sums up the mood as fishermen and processors await the world's biggest sockeye salmon run at Bristol Bay. In fact, it's being called the riskiest season in recent memory in the 2014 Sockeye Market Analysis, a biannual report done by the McDowell Group for the f... | 1.706128 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Dave Ramsey has helped many people get out of debt. And for that, he’s (rightfully) earned those people’s trust.
After somebody digs his/her way out of debt, the next step is often to start investing. And it’s only natural that people who have come to see Dave as a financial mentor turn to him for investment advice.
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کد مقاله سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی ترجمه فارسی تعداد کلمات 66747 2008 7 صفحه PDF سفارش دهید محاسبه نشده Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت) Journal : Building and Environment, Volume 43, Issue 5, May 2008, Pages 804–810 چکیده انگلیسی
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Joe Martin writes:
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The Destructive Influence of Imaginary Peers - NYTimes.com Eric Barker stashed this in Diabolical Plans For World Domination
Which peers influence us the most? The ones that aren't real.
Here's the key passage on social norming:
It seems that almost anything you would want to nag people about can be more effectively do... | 1.572676 | 918 | 916 |
The chef at the Beixinqiao Luzhu reaches into a witch-sized cauldron with a pair of tongs and fishes out a pig lung and a string of pig intestines.
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Often you'll hear the argument that whether Keynes was right or wrong, he opened the flood-gates to politicians who destroyed fiscal sanity in his name. Buchanan makes this argument in
Democracy in Deficit, and recently it's been repeated by Peter Boettke and Don Boudreaux.
It's an absurdly weak line of reasoning, and ... | 1.809893 | 918 | 917 |
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3D Ultrasound Measurement of Change in Carotid Plaque Volume A Tool for Rapid Evaluation of New Therapies Jump to Abstract New therapies are being developed that are antiatherosclerotic but that lack intermediate end points, such as changes in plasma lipids, which can be measured to test efficacy. To study such treatme... | 1.289949 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
but because carotid stenosis is associated with a high risk of cardiac events, 14 we did not wish to expose patients to a long duration of placebo therapy. All subjects gave consent to a protocol approved by the University of Western Ontario standing board of human research ethics and were randomized to placebo versus... | 1.502228 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to be usable superior and inferior to the bifurcation, at each time point. Total distances measured ranged from 1.8 to 3.6 cm (mean 2.8 cm).
Once the distance to be measured for each patient was determined, 3D Quantify allowed the user to set an axis through the volume along which the measurement steps would progress.... | 1.398681 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
convert to SDs of 78.77, slightly smaller than the pooled variance of 80 used for the sample size estimates below.) Observed power was 0.98. There was no difference between the treatment groups with respect to plaque characteristics ( P=0.46). Sample Size Estimates
Table 2 shows sample size estimates for treatments wi... | 1.556255 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
id arteries, measured in longitudinal views of each plaque) is a strong predictor of stroke, death, and myocardial infarction.
12 Patients in the top quartile of baseline plaque area have, after adjustment for age, sex, blood pressure, cholesterol, pack years of smoking, homocysteine, diabetes, and treatment of lipids ... | 1.109708 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. United States patent 5,454,371. 1995 Oct 3. ↵ Fenster A, Lee D, Sherebrin S, Rankin R, Spence D, Downey D. Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging of carotid occlusive disease. In: Klingelhöfer J, et al, eds. New Trends in Cerebral Hemodynamics and Neurosonology. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier Science B.V.; 1997: ... | 1.71103 | 966 | 964 |
How about NEGATIVE corporate income tax receipts? Huh, how does that happen?
Got your attention? It should, because our entire financial system is in ruins, despite the daily manipulated data you receive. Please pay attention to the numbers buried in this report and keep in mind that it’s very difficult to manipulate t... | 1.309457 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Learn About Broccoli Raab How to Sow How to Sow Broccoli Raab is a cool season crop sown in average soil in early spring as soon as the soil is workable. Sow in rows 8-12 inches apart, cover with ¼ inch of fine soil. Keep evenly moist. Seedlings emerge in 10-21 days. Thin to stand about 4-6 inches apart when seedlings ... | 0.975493 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
try attracting the slugs to traps either using cornmeal or beer. For a beer trap, dig a hole in the ground and place a large cup or bowl into the hole; use something that has steep sides so that the slugs can’t crawl back out when they’re finished. Fill the bowl about ¾ of the way full with beer, and let it sit overni... | 1.127213 | 1,014 | 1,011 |
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Seed treatment can be defined as the application of chemical ingredients or biological organisms to the seed that enables in suppressing, controlling or repelling plant pathogens, insects, or other pests that attack seeds, seedlings or plants. The India seed treatment market was worth around $346 million in... | 1.560997 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
Vegetation in the Indian semi-deserts and deserts is quite interesting. Though, the desert seems to be hot and barren with no life at all, at a first glance, it does house nature`s wonders at their best. There are many kinds of plants, animals, insects and reptiles found in the Indian semi-deserts and deserts. The dese... | 1.380217 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
Luke Visconti’s Ask the White Guy column is a top draw on DiversityInc.com. Visconti, the founder and CEO of DiversityInc, is a nationally recognized leader in diversity management. In his popular column, readers who ask Visconti tough questions about race/culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability and a... | 1.833951 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Incidences of the most common type of liver cancer, Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
, have doubled in Egypt over the past 12 years, Dr Ashraf Omar, a professor of gastroenterology at Cairo University, told Ahram Online at a conference on the disease Wednesday.
The annual conference, which was organised by
the Egyptian S... | 1.508861 | 991 | 990 |
Your ankles can endure considerable abuse during a soccer game. Ankle injuries are common in the sport, and though you can't directly make your ankle stronger, you can strength-train the muscles near the joint for more stability. There also are steps you can take before a game to protect your ankles during play. If you... | 1.354221 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
Source - Gaia Portal
Fires are ignited.
Patterns of freedom come to the fore.
Higher Consciousness fully awakens in all of Gaia inhabitants.
Grievances are addressed and transformed.
Gaia metamorphosis nears completion.
And now the analysis: I do not have an insider or direct source for the meanings below.This is my in... | 2.030842 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
complaint or protest. When a child pouts at their mother, they are expressing a grievance. The key aspect of a grievanceis that it is subjective, the experience of recognizing a thing in our reality as unacceptable. Whether or not a grievanceis valid does not matter as much as the fact it is being experienced. For exa... | 2.181015 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Michael Pollan moves on from his vegetarian experiment to discuss slaughterhouse conditions. He concludes this discussion by writing,
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do. Tail docking and sow ... | 1.621687 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
Professional journalists are ostensibly governed by a code of ethics requiring them to report fairly and accurately about events and issues that shape the world. Not only news reporters, but political columnists as well, are obligated under well-known standards to stick to the truth. The most persuasive opinion writers... | 1.717471 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Too many hands holding D.C.'s youth safety net By Crighton AllenLexington
Does it really take a village to raise a child? Maybe. But after what I observed during a summer internship with the Public Defender Service in Washington, it’s clear to me that we could sometimes do more with less.
I worked as an investigator fo... | 1.656227 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
What Radiation Levels in Oregon Coast Tuna Really Means
(Newport, Oregon) – A study conducted by OSU and NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center found there has indeed been an increase in radiation in Albacore tuna caught off the Oregon coast – an increase that can be traced to the Fukushima Daiichi power station in ... | 1.459956 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
Google / Verizon Proposal May Be Important Compromise, But Regulatory Trajectory Concerns Many
Recently, the Washington Post opined that the best way for the FCC to "regulate the Internet" was through a moderate approach, one which places limited authority in the Commission to address behavior that violates long-standi... | 2.073559 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
same meme: network providers just aren't doing their job, so they must be coerced or shamed into proper "compliance."
Not uncharacteristically, The Free Press heralded the new, rather dour (and now redundant) broadband assessment. Said the lugubrious, special interest lobbyists - "Now that the FCC has taken the first ... | 2.0889 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
How to Choose the Right Warehouse For Your Food Grain Storage
Before selecting a warehouse for your goods storage you need to gather all the information about its functions and performance. Now you might be wondering which warehouse is considered as the best warehouse for food grain storage? Well, the best warehouse is... | 1.760718 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Sensibilities of Our Forefathers The History of Sodomy Laws in the United States
By George PainterCopyright, George Painter 1991-2001
©
Kentucky
"[T]he word sodomy is derived from the city of
Sodom, where the crime against nature had its origin, and was universally
prevalent until that city was destroyed by the wra... | 1.48754 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
1
Therefore, it was unclear just what was considered to be the crime in
Kentucky.
Period Summary:
Case law on sodomy
appeared during this era. One case disposed of a challenge by claiming
that everyone knew what constituted sodomy, but another just a few years
later held that an act of fellatio did not violate the law.... | 1.498126 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, has the right to
criminalize sexual activity it deems immoral, without regard to whether
the activity is conducted in private between consenting adults and is not,
in and of itself, harmful to the participants or to others; that, if not
in all instances, at least where there is a
Biblical and historical
tradition sup... | 1.781461 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
that a previous Kentucky Supreme Court
broadly declared a right of privacy prior to World War I in cases which
one suspects were influenced by local economic forces does not mean that
such a doctrine should be applied
in the extreme nearly a century
later to a moral question not remotely considered by the Campbell
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decided Dec. 9, 1880.
7 Id.
8 73 S.W. 1120, decided
May 5, 1903.
9 Id.
10 Id.
11 Id.
12 118 S.W. 943, decided
May 7, 1909.
13 Id. at 944.
14 Id.
15 Id.
16 Id.
17 Id.
18 Id.
19 R.S. Rose, ed., Kentucky
Criminal Law Procedure and Forms, Vol. I, (Cincinnati:W.B. Anderson
Co., 1918).
20 Id. at 331,
§535.
21 Id. §535 and
53... | 1.059817 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
London, Oct 13 : Six computers have been unable to pass a major artificial intelligence test that involved holding a conservation with a person, thus indicating that computers are still not quite clever enough o fool humans.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the test, known as the Turing test, tested six machines... | 1.41168 | 1,022 | 1,019 |
Email: Phone: Affiliations: Biography:
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MINIMUM VIRAL LOAD FOR TRANSMISSION
Nov 5, 1997
Is there a minimum viral load needed to successfully pass HIV infection to
another person? Does it also depend on the mode of transmission [ie. semen to
blood, semen to mucous etc.]. Also are there tests available to determine the
viral load in semen? Thanks
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Infrastructures for Medical
Research
The TMF is the umbrella organization for networked
medical research in Germany. It is the platform for interdisciplinary exchange
as well as cross-project and cross-location cooperation in order to identify
and solve the organizational, legal/ethical and technological problems of
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A quick decision has been delivered granting a request by Kevin Jakubec to the Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) to withdraw his appeal regarding a renewable energy approval (REA) for a wind farm in North Kent.
But information regarding a settlement that was reached in this matter is not being provided in such a time... | 1.652026 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
The New York Times touted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as being: “clearly the most important education reform in the nation’s history.” Intended as a measure to standardize the knowledge and abilities students have by the time they graduate in order to better prepare them for college, the CCSS has met with mi... | 1.748441 | 980 | 978 |
In a recent column, my colleague Colby Cosh took Conservative Party leadership candidate Kellie Leitch’s proposal that Canadians be allowed to carry chemical mace and pepper spray for self-defence a step further (or backward depending on your perspective): He would offer the privilege only to women, writing: “Perhaps I... | 1.681874 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Spy That Never Sleeps
Turning guesswork into a true understanding of the language of bioluminescence will require much more data. Some of that promises to come from a new version of the Eye that was deployed in January as part of the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS), an underwater observatory in Monterey... | 1.566661 | 952 | 951 |
Last amended 11/23/99 Rhetoric As Commitment: Ethics and Everyday Life
....teachers of English need to offer the conditions for students toshare their
experiences, work in social relations that emphasize care and concern for others, and be introduced to forms of knowledge that provide them with the opportunity to take ... | 2.236266 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, ethics is not offered as an answer, a set of rules governing conduct, but as a process of inquiry into any determination of right and wrong (68). Ethics and rhetoric, then, both require commitment--commitment to a position, to settle conflicts and build community, to negotiate differences.
John Poulakos, much like Mc... | 1.855136 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, students identify the moral theories that provide the best analytic framework for their subject. They also convey, in narrative format, the proceedings of the group: who agreed, disagreed, and what was discussed.
The Ethic's course grade is determined, in part, through one-page reflection papers for the Rachels text.... | 2.0872 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Whatever else the individual does, she must be able to communicate her thoughts to her audience. Otherwise, no matter how insightful, useful, or interesting those ideas might be, they will only be "deep thoughts." Ethical determinations are, therefore, part and parcel to rhetorical acts.2
Sharon Welch, drawing from Ju... | 1.910028 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
angry protest.
Most students had not seen the film before, and many were silenced by the culminating violence. They immediately wanted to place blame somewhere, anywhere, for the destruction of Sal's. Buggin' Out (who initiated the boycott of Sal's because Sal would not put up pictures of African-American heroes on hi... | 1.878949 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
enfranchisement of those historically left out of the calculations is to be a social goal. He and a few friends had decided that they would use their good fortune of being born into two-parent families that emphasized education as a means to achieve goals and help those that were less fortunate.
The irony of this posi... | 2.132413 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
standard research format and style.
PHI 240 - Introduction to Ethics: This course introduces theories about the nature and foundations of moral judgments and applications to contemporary moral issues. Emphasis is placed on utilitarianism, rule-based ethics, existentialism, relativism versus objectivism, and egoism. Up... | 1.757412 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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Chapter One
THEORIES OF AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD WARFARE
Perhaps the most important task that American citizens entrust to their elected officials is the decision to deploy the country’s military forces in combat. In making such decisions, leaders place the lives... | 1.533004 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
us to reshape our research focus accordingly.
Indeed, it is impossible to investigate a topic like this today without having the ongoing conflict in Iraq uppermost in mind, and we do look very closely at public opinion on the Iraq war. Concern, however, for what might be called “the public’s stomach for costly militar... | 1.732329 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
osevic knew that he could not directly defeat NATO’s military might in the Kosovo war, but believed that inflicting even modest attrition on NATO forces would be sufficient to prevail politically. 18 And in his infamous November 1996 fatwa, Osama Bin Laden quite explicitly invoked American casualty phobia in Somalia as... | 1.768459 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
policy in elections. We finish the chapter by laying out a summary of the theoretical argument that we will test in the rest of the book.
Chapter 2 assesses our argument in light of aggregate data on public opinion from surveys conducted by others during times of military conflict. We begin by focusing on five militar... | 1.576112 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
casualties and the use of force through a rational cost-benefit calculus. Early research during the Vietnam War emphasized what came to be called the “rally ’round the flag” effect—the way public support spikes during crises—and the degree to which determined political leaders can reinforce public resolve through deci... | 1.871388 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the demand, while not completely inelastic, is nevertheless not as price sensitive as to approximate casualty phobia. 43
The third debate, which our work engages head on, takes the issue of elasticity a step further: What factors shape the “elasticity of demand” for military missions? Put another way, under what condi... | 1.830075 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
4
Beyond these five factors are a host of demographic factors that research has shown affect casualty sensitivity. Race is a significant factor, with African Americans being more sensitive to casualties than Caucasians.
55 Gender is also significant, with women more sensitive than men. 56 Education and age likewise mat... | 1.752529 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, only weak evidence that foreign affairs affects the voting decision. 62
This skeptical view was gradually challenged by scholarship that identified a “rational public,” capable of making reasonable or competent decisions from limited amounts of information.
63 Indeed, research showed that citizens have reasonably str... | 1.754611 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ensure that our findings are robust and not an artifact of question wording or ephemeral survey context. Third, for these same reasons, where possible, we will draw on surveys designed explicitly to tap into attitudes toward casualties; relying on surveys where the casualty question is an afterthought may be misleadin... | 1.63555 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
interactive, meaning that if one believes that the operation is doomed to failure, then also believing that the decision was the “right thing” does not have so big an effect; likewise, if you believe that the decision was wrong, then also believing that the operation will be successful does not have so big an effect. ... | 1.644682 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
For Better Customer Service, Should You Tweet That Complaint?
Or you can fire off a quick Tweet or post on the company's Facebook wall and go about your day.
Not surprisingly, many people now choose the latter course. According to a survey by social media research firm NM Incite, 47% of social media users "actively see... | 1.442783 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Some major public colleges in Missouri and Kansas say a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action won’t affect their efforts to recruit minority students because race already is not a factor in admission standards.
However, increasing diversity on campus by recruiting more minoritie... | 1.371502 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
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Many people that I meet are puzzled by lymphadema. They usually ask me right away if a doctor can prescribe something that will remove the fluid. In my head I'm usually wanting to scream, "WOW what a mind blowing thought! Do you honestly not think I've already thought of THAT?!" but because I was raised with manners, I... | 1.560826 | 1,020 | 1,017 |
Migraine is known as a chronic neurological disease that often influences on a half of the head and exists from 2 to 72 hours when it starts. The symptoms of migraine are often nausea, sensitivity to smell, sound, light. It is identified due to the combination of genetic and environmental factors. When it attacks, you ... | 1.69634 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Despite a terrible year for hoteliers, there is now room for cautious optimism, delegates were told at the 2009 Annual Hotel Conference, hosted in Manchester by law firm Halliwells.
Jonathan Langston, managing director of TRI Hospitality Consulting, said things were not as bad as had been predicted and confidence was r... | 1.679124 | 1,003 | 1,001 |
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Econintersect: On July 13, 2011 Aquamarine Power announced the completion of the next generation machine, Oyster 800, which will generate electricity powered by ocean wave action. The device uses wave motion power to pump water at high pressure into an on-shore hydro-powered turbine, of the same type used to... | 1.808931 | 984 | 982 |
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It's not speeding. It's not driving while under the influence. It's not talking on your cell phone.
In New York State, it just got a whole lot easier to lose your license - for not paying your tax debt. Beginning this ... | 1.216634 | 1,012 | 1,010 |
FG Set To Launch Home-Grown School Feeding Programme
June 8, 2016 ( Post 1 )
From the office of the Vice-President;
Now in the final rounds of preparation for the commencement of the free school feeding programme for primary school pupils, the federal and state governments will review the Strategic Plan for the rollout... | 1.528742 | 1,021 | 1,018 |
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Time management techniques let you get more done at home and at work, but I like them for another reason. When you have a handle on your day and you know that you're doing exactly what you should be doing nearly all th... | 1.46791 | 989 | 987 |
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks mostly rose Monday as growth in manufacturing provided more evidence that the economy may be picking up, or at least not getting any worse.
The gains came after news that U.S. manufacturing grew in September for the first time in four months.
The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of ... | 1.178947 | 976 | 974 |
NEW YORK—When it comes to analytics, the retail industry is at a crossroads—more specifically, at the ever-perplexing place where bricks-and-mortar and digital selling meet. And judging from the array of presentations and booths on display at the National Retail Federation’s sprawling Big Show convention at New York’s ... | 1.783026 | 1,008 | 1,007 |
Post by Barry Myers
I’m not a worrier. I never have been and I struggle to understand why others spend so much of their time focused on the worst of things. But I know a lot of worriers. They wonder if they offended someone because they only said “thank you” 35 times for the lovely dinner. They worry they’ll end up alo... | 1.52538 | 982 | 981 |
I've been exploring the
wide worldof essential oils lately. It was kind of a random path that led me to essential oils, but also it was a long time coming. I had a friend who started using them and they changed her life. I was obviously a bit curious (and a lot skeptical), so after chatting with her for a bit, I decide... | 1.504541 | 898 | 897 |
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170 years of history through innovation and leading brands.
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Well, Let Them Eat Mad Cows
Their reactions were as swift as they were predictable. Informed last month that a cow in Washington had been diagnosed with so-called mad cow disease, Secretary of Agriculture Anne Veneman and spokespersons for McDonald's Corp. reassured Americans that beef is safe.
We have come to expect c... | 1.684867 | 950 | 949 |
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University of Sheffield
Research from the University of Sheffield has shown that unusual changes in atmospheric jet stream circulation caused the exceptional surface melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) in summer 2012.
An international team led by Professor Edward Hanna from t... | 0.874845 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
After Hurricane Sandy, The Costs Of Doing Nothing To Protect New York Come Into Focus
Posted: 11/21/2012 3:20 pm EST
NEW YORK — For years, the city and the state of New York commissioned reports about the dangers of rising sea levels combined with a powerful hurricane. And for years, dissuaded by the costs of doing som... | 1.555027 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
a Broad Channel resident, “can hold some excess water so they can make it less damaging in the height of the storm surge.”
But ultimately, he said, along the bay, “nature is just eroding what basically was not there in the first place. It’s fill sites.”
The first floor of Riepe’s house on the bay was flooded during Sa... | 1.499403 | 1,006 | 1,004 |
lipo brain meds theory
Dec 21, 2003
Dear Dr. Ben YoungHere is info on that lipo med brain theory
Any thoughts?
Subj: [lipodystrophy] Is lipodystrophy caused by the action of antiretroviral drugs in the brain?
To: lipodystrophy@yahoogroups.com Sent from the Internet (Details)
http://www.aidsmap.com/news/newsdisplay2.asp... | 1.218665 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to this brain region and abnormal fat accumulation.
To test their hypothesis, the researchers suggest that the penetration of antiretroviral drugs into the brain tissue must be confirmed in animal studies, particularly into the regions that control the sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous systems. Subsequently, they... | 1.666136 | 978 | 976 |
Congress is locked in a bitter battle over a bill that could mean the difference between business as usual and a complete government shutdown. The sticking point is the new health care law, AKA Obamacare. The republican-controlled House is hell bent on obstructing it in anyway possible, and appears more than willing to... | 1.67888 | 997 | 995 |
Some strange kind of stigma has become associated with classical music, and I want to get to the bottom of it. It isn’t unusual for stereotypes about classical music and its listeners or performers to exist; after all, there are similarly plenty of opinions out there about
Twilight-loving teenagers, Bronies, Trekkies, ... | 1.816258 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Everett M. Rogers is widely known as the inventor of the “Diffusion of Innovation” theory from his research on how farmers adopt agricultural innovations. After pursuing a degree in agriculture, Rogers earned his PhD in Sociology and Statistics at Iowa State University (1957). His doctorate work stemmed from both his p... | 1.557383 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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Schools could soon face a leadership recruitment crisis, with over a quarter (26%) of academies seeing their heads depart... | 1.645254 | 984 | 983 |
Giving thanks with my mouth was easy. Giving thanks with my checkbook wasn’t.
Wanna see a room full of Christians squirm?
It's easy. Throw out one simple word.
Alcohol? Lottery? Homosexuality?
No.
Those might elicit some pretty strong reactions, but they're not what I'm thinking of.
My simple word is "tithe."
Try it so... | 1.655887 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
't want to tithe — in college or now — because we wanted to spend the money ourselves.
Ouch. That hurt.
God had blessed us richly, and we were holding back.
We wanted God to lead us in our family, our careers and our lives; but wanted to keep our bank accounts to ourselves. Like kids on Christmas morning, we were happy... | 1.896866 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
As Rich’s global food business continues to grow, the 70-year-old company maintains a strong connection with its family roots and a watchful eye on “Doing What’s Right.” In the business world, Doing What’s Right means caring for the needs of customers; in the community, it means making a positive impact; and in the wor... | 1.836655 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
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