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Biosafety Protocol: Is There A Need For One?
Words: 1684 / Pages: 7 .... are many biotech companies based in developed
countries that have branches or joint ventures around
the world.
II. The potential risks of transgenic organisms to the environment
is still being determined.
A. Some experts warn that there is a danger that biotechnology
can create mutant hybrids.
B. Biotechnology has the potential to harm the economies of some
developing nations.
C. The last and possible the most important argument for an
international biosafety protocol is in the name of igno .....
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Smoking Tobacco
Words: 213 / Pages: 1 .... that smoking is
very dangerous. Millions of people around the globe want to quit smoking for
medical reasons such as having already two heart-valve replacement surgeries.
Wht did some people do to quit smoking? Some people substituted eating ice-cream
for smoking.
Why is smoking a very popular habit? The reason is you can get them
anywhere. All the stores are selling cigaretes. You don't even need an
identification card to identify your age if you want legal! Almost anyone can
buy them! Yes, the are legal! Nowadays, even middle high school students are
already smoking, and willl even lead to using drugs such as: marijuana, cocaine,
and heroin. .....
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Human Variations In High Altitude Populations
Words: 4158 / Pages: 16 .... changes alone aren’t
enough. Many physical adaptations that reflect “the genetic plasticity common to
all of mankind(Molinar,219)” have to be made to survive and even more than that
thrive in this type of environment.
In this paper I will describe the high altitude stresses. Along with
adaptations made by the populations living in them. The two high altitude
populations which I will examine in this paper are the Tibetan people of the
Asian Himalayas and the Quechua of the South American Andes.
The Quechua are an Indian people who inhabit the highlands of Peru and
Bolivia. They speak Quechua, which is a branch of the Andean-Equitori .....
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Teen Suicide
Words: 481 / Pages: 2 .... place and the troubled teen ends his life.
The next main cause of adolescent suicide is based on drug abuse. According to Johnston O’Malley, and Bachman, 1997 the percentage of high school senior drug use is currently at an incline. The earlier an adolescent starts to use drugs the more likely they are to progress into "the most severe forms of drug use". This elicit drug use alters the teenagers state of mind and eventually takes control of their life. With this in mind, imagine how confused and lost a young person may be if they are a drug user? Out of all teenage suicides as of 1997; drug related suicide alone has tripled from 20% to 60 .....
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The Human Brain
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INTRODUCTION
NOTE: All words in bold print will be found in the glossary.
The human body is divided into many different parts called organs. All
of the parts are controlled by an organ called the brain, which is located
in the head. The brain weighs about 2.75 pounds, and has a whitish-pink
appearance. The brain is made up of many cells, and is the control centre
of the body. The brain flashes messages out to all the other parts of the
body. The messages travel in very fine threads called nerves. The nerves
and the brain make up a system somewhat like telephone poles carrying wires
across t .....
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Adrenoleukodystrpohy
Words: 337 / Pages: 2 .... ~ ALD is carried on the X chromosome.
~ It is transmitted by the female.
~ It occurs in 1 out of 100,000 males.
~ May skip a generation.
~ Female offspring may become carriers of the disease.
Symptoms & Effects
~Difficulties with speech in a noisy room or over the telephone
~Visual disturbances i.e. Field cuts, strabismus, & visual
activity
~ Focal or generalized seizures
~Hyperactivity
~Tends to progress rapidly with increased spasticity and paralysis,
visual and hearing loss, loss of ability to speak or swallow.
~Inability to move themselves anywhere at all from one place to
another.
Diet Goals
~to decrease the exogenous .....
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Abortion
Words: 621 / Pages: 3 .... plain and simple. How could one
deny that when a doctor grabs his forceps and crushes a child's skull and sucks
out what was once a brain, how could they say that is not murder, how could
someone get away with doing this. Then again people ask that same question
about OJ.
There are many abortion-slaughter techniques that are used today.
Examples are the Dilatation and Curettage (D&C) where a loop shaped steel knife
is inserted and the child is cut into pieces, also there is the Dilatation and
Evacuation (D&E) where the doctor uses forceps with sharp metal jaws and tears
the child apart, piece by piece. Usually the head is hardened to bone and .....
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Magnetic Therapy
Words: 1010 / Pages: 4 .... p. 150; Meyer 1997). In the early 1500s, Paracelsus, a physician in Greece, thought that magnets were effective therapeutically due to their ability to attract iron. He hypothesized that because of this capability, they would also be able to leach diseases from the body. However, Paracelsus was also very aware of the tendency the human mind has in playing a role in the healing process:
"The spirit of the master, the imagination is the instrument, the body is the plastic material. The moral atmosphere surrounding the patient can have a strong influence on the course of the disease. It is not a curse or a blessing that works, but the idea. The .....
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Abortion Report
Words: 789 / Pages: 3 .... of our nation because abortion remains legal (Bill
Clinton is Pro-Choice). This is also the thinking of many woman's rights
movements and organizations. From reading a paper on Pro-Choice it states as
its heading that abortion should be a woman's right to choose what she does with
her body, and it should not be altered or influenced by anyone else. This right
is guaranteed by the ninth amendment, which contains the right to privacy. This
brings up a very interesting point, which is that the ninth amendment is a
strong argument in the fight for Pro-Choice. It states that "The enumeration in
the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not construe .....
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AIDS
Words: 959 / Pages: 4 .... that you can practice abstinence, or on a more realistic view, one should be
monogamous and always use condoms. It has been researched that the use of
condoms lowers the risk of becoming HIV infected by 90%. Although this
protection is not 100% it is the only way that actually helps prevent you from
getting the virus. I think that society should make condoms more accessible to
young people, I believe they should have condom machines in girl and guys school
bathrooms. I also feel that they should be distributed in school social events
such as dances or proms, when it is most likely that they will be having sex.
Giving youth condoms is not enc .....
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