the gods of mars summary

... Tarzan of the Apes (1912) • A Princess of Mars (1912) • John Carter and the Giant of Mars (1940) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Warlord ... surface of the coin. The card might represent the section of the wall that turned and the silver dollar the section of the floor. Both were so nicely fitted into the adjacent portions of the floor ... for the source or meaning of the wail. And indeed the latter proved to be the truth, for this strange growth upon the crani- ums of the plant men of Barsoom represents the thousand ears of these 10 attack...

... bars of the cage smacked against the cement wall of the pit, John Carter's arms shot out with the quickness of a striking snake. His fingers closed in a grip of steel about the ankle of the ... necks. They sat at a table where they had been eating, and the food was still before them. They had been the prisoners, the slaves of the rulers of the long-dead city. The dry, motionless air combined ... and lowered them so that the cage tops were a little below the surface of the ground inside the pit. Then he refastened the ropes and stood for some time on the brink looking down on the helpless...

... of Mars, with Dejah Thoris, his mate, led in the dancing, and if there was another couple that vied with them in possession of the silent admiration of the guests it was the resplendent Jed of ... replied another of those upon the roof of the palace, "for it will not be long from the moment her cables part be- fore her crew dons the leather of the dead; but yet, Tanus, I believe they will ... into the water on either side of marble steps. A glass dome let in the sun-light, which flooded the interior, glancing from the polished white of the marble walls and the procession of bathers...

... of the Apes (1912) • A Princess of Mars (1912) • John Carter and the Giant of Mars (1940) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of ... companion when the lesser thern had quoted the words of Thurid and scoffed at them: "And what think you of the ridicu- lous matter of the light? Let the light shine with the intensity of three ... up the center of the stream, which was much narrower than the Iss. As they came nearer I heard the voices of Thurid and the Father of Therns raised in argument. "I tell you, Thern," the...

... and the Health of the Public: A Summary of the February 2009 Summit http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12668.html 20 INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AND THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC In addressing the issue of involving ... publication, Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public: A Summary of the 2009 Summit, provides an account of the discussion and presentations of the two-and-a-half day summit in Washington, ... NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of...

... On the ground in front of him the ants were still swarming. Hun- dreds of them were coming from the ant hill and were flying off. There were thousands of them. Eventually, in the recesses of ... was doing the shouting. The sphere was finished, done for. It was out of the fight, rolling down the vast hill of the sky, it would smash on the planet below. They were following it. There was ... attention to the conversation. But all the time they were stealing glances at the ship. With half their minds, they seemed to be listening to what was being said. But the other half of their minds...

... reposed the bodies of the ape and the man, each of which possessed half the brain of the other. Here I was forced to leave Valla Dia for the time, that I might hasten to the office and perform the ... wastes of interplanetary space. There was an instant of extreme cold and utter darkness, then—But the rest is in the manuscript that, with the aid of one greater than either of us, I have found the ... the minutest detail the nerve or tissue structure of the body. I learned also the secret of the few drops of solution which, added to the rewarmed blood before it is re- turned to the veins of...

... DEPARTMENTS One of £10; two of £5; two of £2 10s.; ten of £1; fifteen of 10s.; thirty of 5s. GIRLS' DEPARTMENTS One of £5; two of £2; eight of £1; fifteen of 10s.; thirty of 5s. The following ... Bancroft, for instance, writing of the Maya races of the Pacific, tells us that "before planting the seed they held a festival in honour of their gods, Ekchuah, Chac, and Hobnil, who were their ... solemnize it, they all went to the plantation of one of their number, where they sacrificed a dog having a spot on its skin the colour of cacao. They burned incense to their idols, after which they gave...

... first dead of the two… . The most dramatic of the fifty appearances was certainly that of the wasp that visited the British Museum about midday, dropping out of the blue serene upon one of the innumerable ... altogether, through the park and vil- lages and then along the green glades of the Hickleybrow preserves. The trees were all dusted with the green spangles of high spring, the hedges were full of ... at the bar and drinking his hot gin and water, with one eye roving over the things at the back of the bar and the other fixed on the Absolute, missed the psychological moment. “I thuppothe there...

... togetherwithanexamination of keyuncertaintiesandlimitations;andaseries of conclusionsandinsightsgainedfrom the analysis.ItisimportanttorecallthatthisRIA restson the analysisdonein2008;nonewairqualitymodelingorotherassessments werecompletedexceptthoseoutlinedabove. The supplementincludesapresentation of the benefitsandcosts of attainingvarious alternativeozoneNationalAmbientAirQualityStandardsin the year2020.Theseestimates onlyincludeareasassumedtomeet the currentstandardby2020.Theydonotinclude the costsorbenefits of attaining the alternatestandardsin the SanJoaquinValleyandSouthCoast airbasinsinCalifornia,becauseweexpectthatnonattainmentdesignationsunder the CleanAir Actfortheseareaswouldplacethemincategoriesaffordedextratimebeyond2020toattain the ozoneNAAQS. InTableS1.1below, the individualrowestimatesreflect the differentstudiesavailableto describe the relationship of ozoneexposuretoprematuremortality.Thesemonetizedbenefits includereducedhealtheffectsfromreducedexposuretoozone,reducedhealtheffectsfrom reducedexposuretoPM 2.5 ,andimprovementsinvisibility. The rangeswithineachrowreflect twoPMmortalitystudies(i.e.PopeandLaden). Rangesin the totalcostscolumnreflectdifferentassumptionsabout the extrapolation of costsasdiscussedinChapter5 of the 2008OzoneNAAQSRIA. The lowend of the range of netbenefitsisconstructedbysubtracting the highestcostfrom the lowestbenefit,while the highend of the rangeisconstructedbysubtracting the lowestcostfrom the highestbenefit. The presentation of the netbenefitestimatesrepresents the widestpossiblerangefromthis analysis. TableS1.2presents the estimate of totalozoneandPM 2.5 ‐relatedprematuremortalities andmorbiditiesavoidednationwidein2020asaresult of thisregulation.  S2‐2  rate of ozonereductionseeninpreviousairqualitymodelingexercisestoestimate the additionalemissionsreductionsneededtomeet the lowertargets. The details of the approachareexplainedbelow,butformostareas of the analysisweusedsimpleimpact ratiostoproject the ozoneimprovementsasarate of NOxemissionsreduced.Use of non‐site‐specific,linearimpactratiostodetermine the non‐linear,spatially‐varying, ozoneresponsewasanecessarylimitationwhichresultsinconsiderableuncertaintyin the extrapolatedairqualitytargets.   ... $47,000 a Estimatesareroundedtotwosignificantfigures.Assuch,totalswillnotsumdowncolumns.  S.2.4.4 Summary of TotalCosts   TableS2.9presentsa summary of the totalnationalcosts of attaining the 0.055ppm and the 0.060ppmalternativestandardsin2020.This summary includes the engineeringcosts of the modeledcontrolstrategy(presentedin the 2008OzoneNAAQSRIAChapter5 4 ), the additionalsupplementalcontrols,aswellas the extrapolatedcosts.ConsistentwithOMB CircularA‐4,costsarepresentedata7%discountrate.  7 The midrangeestimateconsists of usinganMvalue of 0.24for the estimation of the averagecostperton of controlbygeographicarea.Foracompletelisting of averagecostpertonbygeographicareaseeAppendixS2a. S2‐10  FigureS2.2:Map of ExtrapolatedCostCountiesfor the 0.060ppmAlternateStandardand EstimatedPercentageNOxControlsNeededtoMeetthatStandardin2020   S2.3 ... The costs of identifiedcontrolmeasuresaccountsforanincreasinglysmallerquantity of the totalcosts of attainment.Thisisamajorlimitation of the costanalysis.Weassume amajority of the costs of attaining the tighteralternativestandardswillbeincurred throughtechnologieswedonotyetknowabout.Thereforecostingfutureattainment baseduponunspecifiedemissionreductionsisinherentlydifficultandspeculative.  The uncertaintiesandlimitationssummarizedabovearegenerallymoreextensivethan thosefor the 0.075ppm,0.070ppm,and0.065ppmanalyses. The tablebelowcontrastsour level of confidenceineach of the keyresults.  TableS2.1:Keyuncertaintiesandlimitationsin the analysisfor 0.060ppmand0.055ppm Analyticalquestion...

... either the likelihood a loan is repaid (and thus, the cost of a loan) or the availability of credit. These results highlight the distinct tradeoff between 1) limiting the collection and use of ... models explain the evolution of credit bureaus and the lending markets they support? Japelli and Pagano (1999) provide one of the very few attempts to test the predictions of the theoretical models ... retail experience but not the experience of other financial institutions. Tables 5 and 6 display the results of the retail-only simulations. As in the previous discussion of the negative-only simulation,...