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intensified conflict that would certainly cause massive displacement. President Mandela has given new momentum to the Arusha process, but the continued fighting is deeply discouraging. If peace does come, UNHCR is prepared to help more than half a million refugees go home from Tanzania, and the agencies on the ground ... | 1.650562 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
continue providing assistance and seeking to improve conditions for displaced people in Ingushetia - hoping that this, their second, will be their last winter in exile - while seeking to provide greater levels of emergency shelter materials to vulnerable people inside Chechnya itself.
The list of situations where solu... | 1.720472 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Rather, we hope to promote its full implementation and to develop the new approaches, tools and standards needed to ensure its continuing vitality and relevance. I am pleased that governments have responded so positively to this initiative - the Executive Committee welcomed the Global Consultations in its Conclusion o... | 1.773799 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Does Your Arena Have an Automatic External Defibrillator?
by Tom Morton
You may ask, “Have a what? – How do you spell it? – How do you pronounce it? – What is it? – Why do I need one?”
These are all good questions. Perhaps many ice arena managers may not be familiar with these life saving devices.
My friend, Dr. Alan B... | 1.559357 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
It is stronger than steel and taller than the Empire State Building (well relatively speaking). It was discovered in a pile of black crud, not exactly by accident but pretty close. What are these things? Carbon nanotubes and they were discovered in 1991 by scientists at NEC corporation. Carbon nanotubes are tiny tubes ... | 1.66709 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
I have never gotten serious about this but I remember thinking the idea seemed promising. I thought this might make for good discussion; if feasible maybe an interesting science fair or even an undergrad project if it gets that interesting. We actually played with this a bit many years ago and we did get some encouragi... | 2.020775 | 979 | 977 |
The report contains detailed information about Zions Bancorp. that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history. Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried o... | 1.160214 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
1.2. Financial Performance 1.3. Key Executives 1.4. Ownership and Major Holders 1.5. Company History 2. ZIONS BANCORP. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
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Current Ratio Chart Zions Bancorp. 1-year Stock Charts Zions Bancorp. 5-year Stock Charts Zions Bancorp. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart Zions Bancorp. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts Zions Bancorp. Article Density Chart
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Ligon Research Explores Road Signs
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The interior of every cell within our bodies is crisscrossed with a network of molecular highways upon which nutrients, replacement parts, and other vital materials travel to their appropriate location. The system is immensely complex, and wrong turns are ... | 1.357224 | 951 | 950 |
Protesters delivered a petition to the steps of Parliament which makes a fresh appeal to the Government to abandon its fossil fuels agenda.
Greenpeace and 150 people from across New Zealand carried boxes containing over 140,000 signatures and arranged them outside Parliament with a clean energy message for Government.
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It's a generous gift - the picture is worth many hundreds of thousands of pounds - and is part of a JP Morgan programme of supporting living artists.
Walter Gubert, global chairman of JP Morgan's investment banking division, is keen to have its name tag attached to the gift. 'This is about being at home in one of our m... | 1.868916 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
Death to the Plants
DECEMBER 29, 1997: Once again Americans, it is time to act. Kill lettuce and tomato plants, rutabagas and peas. Chop down orange trees and poison carrot fields. Set fire to oat and wheat fields. Wage a pitiless war against fruits, vegetables and grains.
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On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; D.C. Criminal No. 90-00149.
Sloviter, Chief Judge, Greenberg, Circuit Judge, and McClure, District Judge.
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Joseph E. Demes appeals from the judgment of sentence and conviction in this cocaine case, confining his appeal to sent... | 1.007579 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
defense was not necessarily inconsistent with the acceptance of responsibility.
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About Dairy One
Dairy One Cooperative, Inc. exists to help farms succeed. The organization is a not-for-profit cooperative with a core DHIA membership of approximately 4500 dairy farmer members throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region. Our primary business office and laboratory facilities are located in Ithaca,... | 1.643397 | 1,013 | 1,011 |
These are dark days for the American labor movement – and, not coincidentally, for the American worker. Decades of globalization, technological change, and a relentless assault by employers and right-wing politicians have left unions gasping for air. Only about 7 percent of private sector workers belong to a union, dow... | 1.341079 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
anti-discrimination, the American public will understand what is at stake, and understand the basic issue of fairness. If you put it to people, “Should an individual be fired even if they’re doing a good job at work because they’re trying to assert their fundamental right to organize a union?” most people will answer,... | 1.381939 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
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(Chinese Turkistan Turkistan or Turkestan , historic region of central Asia. Western, or Russian, Turkistan extended from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Chinese frontier in the east and from the Aral-Irtysh watershed in the north to the borders of Iran and Afghanistan in the south. ..... Click the link for more in... | 1.301883 | 1,008 | 1,006 |
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My kids go back to school next week. And yes, I do realize that the calendar shows it is but mid-July. I am always reminded how unusual our school start date is when I proudly post back-to-school pictures on my Facebook news feed only to be replied to with comments that perhaps not-so-subtly question my sanity. I would... | 1.511035 | 948 | 946 |
Diagnosing skin cancer usually includes cutting into a suspicious spot and then waiting anxiously for the sample to be sent, examined under a microscope, and reported. But a new and painless imaging procedure takes less than an hour.
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Young children often have problems with self-control, especially when they become excited. A precocious preschooler with excess energy can be a challenge for any parent. If you need to calm down a wild 3-year-old, it helps to have a variety of different methods at your disposal. Through a process of trial and error, yo... | 1.671947 | 961 | 959 |
Bob Tisdale has a post up at WUWT which adds model trends to his regular monthly update Sea Surface Temperature (SST) graphs covering all the ocean basins. It’s a big, comprehensive survey. Great work, thanks Bob. There is so much to digest however, that it’s easy to suffer ‘information overload’ and get sidetracked by... | 1.832342 | 980 | 979 |
The lawyers President Obama nominated to head the Merit Systems Protection Board have played significant roles in some of the major campaigns that federal employee unions have waged in recent years. But labor leaders also said Susan Grundmann, tapped to lead the board, and Anne Wagner, nominated to be Grundmann's deput... | 1.651905 | 999 | 997 |
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Kids in some schools are paying for lunches with their fingerprints.
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WEDNESDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) -- More than 100 reports of potentially hazardous food products were filed with the U.S. government's food safety Web site in its first seven months of operation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
The Reportable Food Registry requires manufacturers, processors, pa... | 1.291794 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
At Critical Cycles, we’re passionate about fixed-gear bikes. Accordingly, we strive to educate our customers as much as possible about everything fixie-related. One common misconception about fixie bikes is that they’re the same as track bikes. While track bikes are also technically fixed-gear and offer many of the sam... | 1.376999 | 983 | 981 |
The New York Times recently launched a daily Webcast called TimesCast. It airs around midday and is about a six-minute-long overview of the big stories of the day, as seen through the eyes of the NYT’s newsroom. Each episode starts with a brief clip from the NYT’s daily page one meeting, where the top honchos talk abou... | 1.670802 | 949 | 948 |
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There have been understandable scenes of jubilation in Colombo and other Sinhalese majority areas of Sri Lanka over the occupation of Kilinochchi, which used to be the administrative capital of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), by the Sri Lankan Army on January 2,2008. These scenes bring to one's min... | 1.505377 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
Last week I saw a pretty impressive number: $1.2 million. That’s was the annual incremental revenue that one online business expects to generate just by doing some simple math for its customers.
Here’s how it works: You extend an offer based on a purchase threshold, then update the visitor’s progress toward that thresh... | 1.734221 | 1,000 | 998 |
Tonight at 9:00 (ET) on
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Last fall, the ABC team attended “the Super Bowl of P... | 1.745474 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
Plastic drinking beakers, socks, reading books, library cards, shin pads, hair clips (lots of hair clips), dinner tickets and felt pens that actually work. These are the things I lose on a regular, in many cases daily, basis in a house with three young children.
Oh, and my patience obviously too.
But never actually the... | 1.803982 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
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The President clearly shares the AFL-CIO’s commitment to a viable pathway to citizenship, meaning that seemingly innocuous conditions cannot be allowed to get in the way of a road map for citizenship that encompasses the dreams of 11 million people.
Obama’s proposal for a comprehensive immigration plan for aspiring cit... | 1.653701 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Learning how to accurately grade currency is a skill that is learned over time after handling many notes. However, hopefully the information below will act as a crash course to understand the basics of what makes a note nicer than another.
Currency is graded on a scale of 1-70, with 70 being absolute perfection and 1 b... | 1.602986 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
In 2008, K. David Harrison traveled to Arunachal Pradesh, India, a northeast region so remote even Indians need permits to travel there -- and he made an incredible discovery.
The Swarthmore College linguist and his colleague Greg Anderson were searching for speakers of two little-known languages -- Aka and Miji. And a... | 1.557004 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
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As smartphone use throughout China and East Asia expanded by double-digit percentages year over year, China has shifted from dominating the low-end manufacturing market to owning the high-tech sector — and in the process has become the second-biggest startup m... | 1.672479 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Last week, Miami Dolphins player Richie Incognito was suspended indefinitely for allegely bullying teammate Jonathan Martin.
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Penn Law students use film to tell their clients’ stories to a mass audience
PHILADELPHIA (Oct. 7, 2008) - Michael Wong is a 26-year-old law school student turned filmmaker, whose newest film debuts in less than two weeks. Shmul Kaplan is an 80-year-old disabled survivor of Nazi oppression whose complicated journey thr... | 1.693275 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
File photo of students from Case Western Reserve University donning the new HoloLens during the keynote address during the Microsoft Build 2016 Developers Conference in San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Google introduced its Google Glass smart glasses four years ago, it turned to Glass-sport... | 1.544706 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
pH pool water problems Pool water problem - pH
pH balance in swimming pools is possibly the most critical element of pool water maintenance. If you consider that chlorine's ability to do its job is directly linked to the pH, high or low levels inevitably lead to sanitization problems.
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The industry has made progress toward healthcare interoperability in the last couple years, but getting over the final hump may take some creative thinking. There are still no easy answers for how to build fully interoperable nationwide networks.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most U.S. companies so far this earnings season have managed to beat Wall Street profit forecasts despite weak sales, but investors hoping corporate headwinds have died down may need to temper their enthusiasm.
Of the 169 Standard & Poor's 500 companies that have reported so far, 71 percent beat ea... | 1.377935 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
Many times, these individuals are arrested in neighboring cities on misdemeanor charges, while neighboring jurisdictions have issued felony arrest warrants in their names. These criminals can potentially go undetected for years. http://www.motorola.com
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Somewhere in the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest landfall, there is a fishing ship. Let’s say you’re on it. Go onto the open deck, scream, jump around naked, fire a machine gun into the air — who will ever know? You are a... | 1.838941 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
has developed over 30 years. Last year a German enthusiast put together a stunning time-lapse video of the world at night, with images taken from the international space station.
“It’s revolutionized the whole way we analyze things; it’s transformed the way the Earth is pictured,” says James B. Campbell, author of the... | 1.773667 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
A good set of garden clippers are one of a gardener’s best friends. You use them to prune tomatoes, trim away damaged foliage, and even harvest tomatoes, especially those that are on thick stems. Plus, when you choose a versatile set of clippers, you can use them in when taking care of other vegetables, flowers, and pl... | 1.460811 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
In addition, when these adults made mistakes as children, they were made to feel ashamed by such powerful one-liners as, "What's the matter with you?" What were you thinking?" "What's wrong with you?" and "How could you be so stupid?"
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The end of Alan Greenspan's reign at the United States' Federal Reserve is a highly significant moment for the world's financial markets and economy.
Everyone knew that 79-year-old Greenspan's fourth term was to expire at the end of January. It is just that for 18 years he has been in the hot seat of the world's most p... | 1.529042 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
US looking for returns. He has called this a "global savings glut."
If domestic demand in those countries were higher, he argues, the current account deficit would be far smaller. This is a controversial view and will remain a live issue in the future.
Bernanke has also spoken in favour of a weaker US dollar as a meth... | 1.250341 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
For many years, the "Prudent Person Rule" stood as a guide for fiduciary investing. While designed to limit unsuitable investing by third parties, the rule basically placed a higher emphasis on preservation of capital than on income or growth, and looked at each investment to see if it was suitable.
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Building on the initiative’s 2015 launch, Sesame Workshop has continued to work with an historic coalition of more than 250 organizations and has listened to the autism community, responding with new resources to support it. The short films spotlight real children with autism and their families, providin... | 1.328011 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
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The French concept of terroir, a confluence of elements – soil, atmosphere, weather, and other factors – that gives something a certain taste or flavor to foods and wine, is often spoken of as an elusive concept outside of France. But it does exist in the United States, as well a... | 1.769685 | 1,007 | 1,005 |
Simon Woods, "Death's Dominion: Ethics at the end of life"
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It’s a good time to be the boss.
A report on CEO pay, released this week by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, found that the heads of the country’s top-100 corporations earned an average of $8.96-million in 2014. True, their take-home went down a bit—two per cent—from the $9.2 million average in 2013, but th... | 1.46964 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
In Beyond Science, Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below.
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five years during their research. They said the O’Connors swore on their daughter’s grave what they reported is true and that they have both expressed a readiness to take lie-detector tests.
Healy and Cropper write: “The suggestion that the hairy giants are extra-dimensional, unpalatable as it may be to most researche... | 1.94154 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Apparently, through some rather incredible and oddly parallel set of mistakes, the ending of the world will not happen on December 21
st. Instead, it appears the world has already ended on November 10 th. The mistake is a moment of some embarrassment for the experts involved–all of whom seem to have been taken in.
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Entrepreneurs are full of great ideas and powerful ways to implement them, but like anything in life, starting a new business requires a hefty stack of cold, hard cash. At one time, gathering this cash required hours o... | 1.748361 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
Researchers discovered that individuals with the 2-2 form gene were five times more likely to have heart disease than those with the 1-1 form.As a result of new research at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, a simple blood test can determine which diabetics carry a gene which gives them 500% more of a chance ... | 1.566127 | 1,007 | 1,005 |
A front-page article in today’s Wall Street Journal talked about Robert Rubin’s role (
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Mr. Rubin said it is a company’s risk-management executives who are responsible for avoiding problems like the ones Citigroup faces. “The board can’t run the risk book of a company,”... | 1.618823 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
In times like these when money is tight and being able to save is something every consumer does on a daily basis, finding broadband plans can seem like a luxury, considering that it does cost a bit more than traditional dial-up but the savings you incur will come in the long run after you've been using it. Not only do ... | 1.812424 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
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When you sell your house, you want to earn the best price for it. During a buyers’ market, when sales are down and buyers demand price concessions and other compromises from sellers, this can be a challenging task. You’ll increase your odds of landing the best possible price, though, by following some simpl... | 1.247598 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
Role of States
The United States of America is a federal republic made up of fifty states and a federal district. It was was founded by the original thirteen colonies of Great Britain. The thirteen original colonies were Pennysylvania, North Carolina, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, South Carolina, New Y... | 1.429431 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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Types of Mortgage Lenders
There are a number of types of primary mortgage lenders that you may encounter when shopping for your mortgage loan. To give you a better understanding of these service providers, a brief explanation is provided below.
Mortgage Bankers typically originate loans and then sell these loans to the... | 1.386487 | 1,004 | 1,002 |
By Richard Vedder
The Times Higher Education (THE)world university rankings are out for 2009, and the big news to many is the decline in American listings in the top 100 schools. To me, the news is how much difference there is between alternative rankings systems, and the implications of that. The correlation between t... | 1.747337 | 1,012 | 1,010 |
Your Cat Litter Box may be a deadly source of infection that can affect pregnant women, the fetus, and immunocompromised individuals. This parasite, is also the second leading cause of death from food-borne illness – and can be entirely prevented or easily treated.
Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan that infects people –... | 1.74834 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
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Previous studies have suggested that chromosomal mosaicism (CM; chromosomal differences across cells in the same person) in white blood cells is a risk factor for hematologic cancer, including leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, or myelodysplastic syndrome, though the studies were relatively small. ... | 1.363415 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
During the Keynesian era, the state established itself as an active supporter of economic life through direct and indirect interventions. However, the basic inconsistency between material output and its abstract and crisis-prone valorization in the bourgeois economy was never questioned. As a result, the fundamental di... | 1.964894 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
economics to an “art school that prescribes an eraser as the only instrument of portraiture.” What do you mean by that? Ernst Lohoff: That leads us back to the question from the beginning of part one of the interview. Economics, regardless of which school, cannot understand the crisis because it obliterates the basic ... | 2.124596 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Just about a week ago, Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation, the company associated with widespread methane contamination of groundwater in Dimock, Pennsylvania, received one of the Governor’s new “Community Impact Awards”—an award for companies that “exemplif[y] the tenet of ‘doing well by doing good.’”
We’ve written a lot a... | 1.714553 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
iPads are not just for humans — the Regina Humane Society is utilizing tech toys to help its sheltered cats tap into their kitty instincts.
The Regina Humane Society launched its iPads for Cats program in late 2016.
"It's a new program for us, but it's certainly not a new program for cats," said Lisa Koch, executive di... | 1.576614 | 1,013 | 1,011 |
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2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk. In this one, Richard Feynman PH. D in physics, is playing the bongos. Interestingly, he was just hugely brilliant, and as well interestingly, he played those bongos at a strip joint not far from his office at Cal Tech. He was part of the bunch that worked on th... | 1.95991 | 989 | 986 |
We’re not saying that the weight of the federal government has increased on this peninsula, but were those black helicopters that just flew overhead?
We’re not saying that the weight of the federal government has increased on this peninsula, but were those black helicopters that just flew overhead?
All kidding aside, f... | 1.933093 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
I ran across a skeptic that has raised the old criticism of textual variants in the New Testament. The quote below is a representation of the typical criticism we see:
It has been estimated that these manuscripts and quotations differ among themselves between 150,000 and 250,000 times. The actual figure is, perhaps, mu... | 1.652819 | 1,006 | 1,004 |
SINGAPORE, May 9 (Reuters) – The shipping industry faces a looming capacity glut as billions of dollars pumped into it by private equity have stoked a vessel-buying spree, threatening its prospects just as the sector is emerging from its worst downturn in three decades.
Backed by private equity and hedge fund financing... | 1.587698 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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How can a French 2 tutor help you?
As you advance in your language studies, the complexities of learning a foreign tongue become increasingly evident. In French 1, you acquire many of the rudimentary vocabulary terms and grammatical structures needed for basic conversation in French. In French 2, you are now expected t... | 1.431852 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
Lonnie Thompson has clocked more hours above 18,000 feet than any other person in history, and yet he doesn’t exactly like climbing mountains. A masochist? No, just a hard-driving climate scientist.
Photo: Courtesy Lonnie Thompson.
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I have now taken 880 people over 18,000 feet and I can say that most people can adapt to these higher elevation environments. That said, we have had team members who experienced blood clots, temporary loss of eyesight, pulmonary edema — in which the lungs fill with fluid, and strange stuff that’s not writte... | 1.700101 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Approaching the Search for Santa Barbara Architecture Schools from a Different Perspective
While there may not be schools for architecture in the town of Santa Barbara, two institutions offer opportunities related to the discipline.
The picaresque coastal town of Santa Barbara, California, sometimes referred to as “the... | 1.531959 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
The kind of seizure an older person may have depends on where the electrical disturbance takes place and how much of the brain is affected. It's possible to have just one type of seizure, or more than one type.
Generalized seizures happen when waves of electrical activity swamp the whole brain at once. These may produc... | 1.336103 | 930 | 929 |
Why iOS 9 Developer Will Use “HTTPS”
Do you know about 85% to 95% websites continue to communicate using unencrypted The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), regardless how insecure or unsafe that is? But, there is a better and secure way that is the secure version of HTTP—Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS), an... | 2.153953 | 982 | 981 |
About 80-90% of benign gynaecological conditions may now be managed in the OPD or by minimal access short stay surgery.
Medical Science has made great strides in how diseases are managed. Research and developments in bio-technology have brought about a paradigm shift in the management of disease.
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On April 20, 2012, the Di Rupo government approved a plan for administrative simplification, proposed by Minister for Budget and Administrative Simplification, Olivier Chastel (MR). By bringing down administrative costs by 30% by 2014, the government seeks to create a stable and simplified business environment.
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Many U.S. lawmakers reacted cautiously to the successful conclusion of negotiations to forge the world’s biggest trading bloc. The Trans-Pacific Partnership would reduce trade barriers among 12 Pacific Rim nations that account for 40 percent of global economic output.
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Intel's (NASDAQ:INTC) push into consumer tablets gets most of the attention, the company is starting to gain ground in other areas as well. Earlier this month, the casual dining chain Applebee's, which is operated by DineEquity (NYSE:DIN), announced that it would be installing 100,000 tablets onto tabletops withi... | 1.398575 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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The demand for high-value environmental data and information has dramatically increased in recent years. To improve our ability to meet that demand, NOAA’s former three data centers—the National Climati... | 1.614122 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
This morning sky, after the night's tempest, is a pure and dazzling blue. The air--the delicious air!--is full of sweet resinous odors, shed from the countless pine-boughs broken and strewn by the gale. In the neighboring bamboo-grove I hear the flute-call of the bird that praises the Sutra of the Lotos; and the land i... | 1.688511 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
am going to say about ants. But there are men, incomparably wiser than I can ever hope to be, who think about insects and civilizations independently of the blessings of Christianity; and I find encouragement in the new Cambridge Natural History, which contains the following remarks by Professor David Sharp, concernin... | 1.887902 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ish" in its ordinary acceptation. A greedy ant, a sensual ant, an ant capable of any one of the seven deadly sins, or even of a small venial sin, is unimaginable. Equally unimaginable, of course, a romantic ant, an ideological ant, a poetical ant, or an ant inclined to metaphysical speculations. No human mind could att... | 1.865677 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
provided with weapons; and they are furthermore protected by a large military force. The warriors are so much bigger than the workers (in some communities, at least) that it is difficult, at first sight, to believe them of the same race. Soldiers one hundred times larger than the workers whom they guard are not uncomm... | 2.077936 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
repressed through physiological modification. No indulgence of any natural appetite is possible except to that degree in which such indulgence can directly or indirectly benefit the species;--even the indispensable requirements of food and sleep being satisfied only to the exact extent necessary for the maintenance of... | 1.818556 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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