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Using Irradiation To Make Food Safer For Consumers
1,173 words... the product and not in all directions, the electron beam is more efficient. A ten kilowatt beam generator is as powerful as about one-million curies from a cobalt- 60 source (Murano 14 - 15). The electron accelerators produce from five to ten million electron volts and ten to fifty kilowatts (Murano 15 - 16). The electron beam efficiency can be increased by aiming the beam at a metal target, usually tungsten or tantalum. This produces Bremsstrahlung x-rays. This type of x-ray can penetrate a...
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Miles An Hour Mississippi River
1,033 wordsRobert Fulton started the very first commercially successful steamboat service in America. His steam-powered paddle boat, the Clermont, sailed up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in August of 1807. This trip lasted 32 hours The first steamboats were demonstrated in 1787. They were used on the river ways to bring cargo, cotton, sugar, and people to their destinations. The steamboat played a major part in the population growth. The steamboats were usually made of wood and were all kin...
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Free Of Charge Place To Live
877 wordsSecluded in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, is a place called Sashy, a wonderful, perfect society. It is always peaceful and nothing bad ever happens on the island. The island's air is always fresh and free of any toxins or pollution. Temperature on the South side of Sashy is always warm with no humidity present. On the North side of Sashy the weather is always perfect for winter activities, the temperature is just cold enough for the snow to fall. The North side of the island is full of steep...
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Surgical Abortions Ru 486
810 wordsFDA okays RU 486 after years of controversy NEW YORK, Sep 28 (Reuters Health) - After 4 years of controversy and negotiation, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved the abortion drug mifepristone, more commonly known as RU- 486. The approval comes with some, but not all, of the prescribing restrictions originally discussed as conditions for getting the drug onto the market. Mifepristone, which will be sold under the trade name Mifeprex, will be available to doctors within...
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Competitive Advantage Decision Making
756 wordsDescribe in detail the ways that telecommunications technology can provide a firm with a competitive advantage. A competitive advantage can be achieved by enhancing the firms ability to deal with customers, suppliers, substitute products and services, and new entrance into its market. A firm may find it difficult to keep informed of all changes taking place within its industry, but with the proper telecommunications system a firm could easily gain a competitive advantage over their competitors. ...
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Pollution Prevention Pollution Caused
847 wordsThere are all of types of pollution. Industrial pollution is the air, water, and chemical pollution caused by industries. There has always been pollution. Industrial pollution began when our country went through the Industrial Revolution. Most all parts of the world are affected in some way by industrial pollution. Big cities with steel mills, power plants, heating plants, or railroad stations feel the direct effects of industrial pollution. The smog, smell, and contamination of food or water ar...
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Health Care System U S Embargo
1,147 words... oration about the U. S. government and the embargo against Cuba. The U. S. is not all to blame but at the same time cannot be ruled out. Everyone seems to be blaming the U. S. but Castro plays a big part as well. This release speaks of the small details that supporters of the embargo seem to leave out. As stated earlier, the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 does permit companies and their subsidiaries to sell medicine and medical equipment to the United States and has approved 36 of 38 license re...
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Shatt Al Arab Iran And Iraq
1,109 words"Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator is a ruthless despot who has brought enormous misery on his own people. It is a pity he remains in power... " (Finley). The tension between Iran and Iraq had deep roots. Long-standing major problems included rivalries between the minority Sunni Muslims who dominated Iraq and the majority Shiites and disputes over borders that confined Iraq to its narrow access to the Persian Gulf by way of the Shatt al Arab waterway. In 1969, when Britain announced its intent ...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Drugs In Sport
1,109 wordsDrugs in Sport Stuart Fox 4 T I am certainly a great sporting enthusiast. I love nothing more than to watch a great sporting encounter, no matter which sport. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly common for sportsmen and women to use substances to aid their performance. That is not to say all competitors use illegal substances, however when competitors start to use illegal substances, they ridicule the whole ethos of sport and competition. I cannot see the point of people competing when th...
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Unemployment Rate Part Time
638 wordsIntroduction Youth unemployment is a term used for people between the ages of 15 - 19, that do not attend school or tertiary level and don't have any form of paid job. There are reasons causing this growing problem. These being; employers not wanting inexperienced workers, the low rate of pay and the transition period from education to the work force after the completion of year 12. Fortunately, there are a vast majority of "youth friendly industries." This implies that, when certain companies a...
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Municipal Solid Waste Environmental Protection Agency
581 wordsMunicipal Solid Waste Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is becoming an increased concern for the United States. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (MSW Website n. p. ) defines municipal solid waste as trash or garbage consisting of everyday items such as product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps, newspapers, appliances, paint, and batteries. In 2003 Americans produced more than 236 million tons of municipal waste, which is approximately 4. 5 pounds of waste per p...
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Company Research Westjet Airlines Part 2
1,562 words... Jet Airlines. The company attempts to position itself as the most reliable company in the airline industry on the North American continent. The WestJet Airlines Ltd on time performance is currently the best in North America that runs at 86 % on a month-to-date basis. West Jet runs regularly at 86 % on time performance, whereas Delta, which is the best airline in the United States Of America, ran at 79 % in the second quarter of 2002. The WestJet Airlines Ltd dispatch reliability runs at 99. ...
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National Missile Defense Threat To The United States
1,458 wordsChina-U. S. Relations Matt Jackson GP 101 Commentary on China China, for most of its 3500 years of history, China led the world in agriculture, crafts, and science. It fell behind in the 19 th century when the Industrial Revolution gave the West clear superiority in military and economic affairs. In the first half of the 20 th century, China continued to suffer from major famines, civil unrest, military defeat, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under Mao Tse Tung establi...
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Equal Protection Clause Separate But Equal
314 wordsBrown v. Board of Education In 1896 the Supreme Court had held in Please v. Ferguson that racial segregation was permissible as long as equal facilities were provided for both races. Although that decision involved only passenger accommodations on a rail road, the principle of separate but equal was applied thereafter to all aspects of public life in states with large black populations. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decided on May 17, 1954, was one of the most important cases in...
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Ku Klux Klan Martin Luther King Jr
990 words? I have a dream? . that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin? . but by the content of their character? . I have a dream today? ? ? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King? s? I have a dream? is one of the most well known speeches in American history. It emphasizes an ideal America where there is no prejudice, no hate, where everyone is equal. In the heat of the moment during that overwhelming march on Washingto...
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Correctional Officers Correctional Facility
971 wordsCAREER RESEARCH REPORT The career I have chosen to pursue after graduation is a Correctional Officer. Correctional Officer? s have been around for a very long time and were designed to keep major offenders off the street after they have been arrested by the Police. The offenders are put in a holding cell at a Pre Trial Centre awaiting their court date. Correctional Officers are a very important part of the Justice System because it keeps high profile criminals off the street and locked up even b...
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Separate But Equal John Howard
740 wordsIn this nations history, society has alienated many groups based on race or color. The most widely known of these such prejudices has been those committed against blacks. Ever since the beginning of this nation, before 1776, blacks have been regarded as inferior, bs, and somewhat of a nuisance. John Howard Griffin, in his book Black Like Me, explores this thought as a white man and a black man, after he changes the color of his skin. In the book, alienation is clearly seen in states of the deep ...
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Persons With Disabilities American States
1,575 wordsINTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARTICLE I For the purposes of this Convention, the following terms are defined: 1. Disability The term disability means a physical, mental, or sensory impairment, whether permanent or temporary, that limits the capacity to perform one or more essential activities of daily life, and which can be caused or aggravated by the economic and social environment. 2. Discrimination against persons...
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Firm Foreign Markets
903 wordsIndirect Exporting An Indirect Distribution Distribution Indirect Exporting An Indirect Exporter is when a firm? s product is sold in foreign markets with no special activity for this purpose occurs within the firm. Others carry a firm? s product overseas. Although exporting this way can open up new markets quickly a firm will have limited control over distribution of its product. A firm likes to have a buyer; thus products are sold in a domestic market then resold overseas in different ways. -F...
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Washington D C Bureau Of Justice Statistics
1,060 wordsDrugs and crime over the last ten years have increased for women, at about twice the rate of drug use in men. In 1999 a survey of inmates in state correctional facilities, the percentage of women in prison for a drug offense exceeded that of men. (2000, Bureau of Justice statistics) Drug usage is the grounds for many women going to prison. Drug use is on the rise among women. Seventy-five thousand women are serving prison sentences in the United States; most of them are in prison for drug law vi...
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