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Tài liệu The Child''''s Book of American Biography pdf

Tài liệu The Child''''s Book of American Biography pdf

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... these nieces which made them nearly explode with laughter when theirmothers read them aloud. All the funny sights in Venice were described, and the stories about the children inIndia made the ... an umbrella. They called themselves "Knights of the Umbrella and Bundle." The Thoreaus were rather a prominent family in Concord. There were six of them, all told. The father, Mr.John ... needed money and decided to make the colonists pay a tax on tea and a few other things.Then the American colonists were as angry as they could be. They tipped the whole cargo of tea into BostonHarbor,...
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A reprint from American Scientist the magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society doc

A reprint from American Scientist the magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society doc

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... knowledge of the location and altitude at which the device is explod-ed, and the local meteorology—particu-larly a three-dimensional characteriza-tion of the wind field in the vicinity of the ... when the fireball from the explosion cools sufficiently to lose buoyancy. HOOD was the largest atmospheric test conducted at the Nevada Test Site (and in the continental U.S.). Fortunately, the ... California, at the same time, the corresponding values would have been 0.003, 0.01, and 0.0004 Gy. (A link to these data is available in the bibliography.)Following the publication of the NCI findings...
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The American Book Of The Dead pptx

The American Book Of The Dead pptx

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... the book you’re reading. So where’s the confusion? The book was about a writer in his fifties working on a book. In the future the book has yet to be written, even if it was written in the ... what they did they were a part of history: they belonged to the United States government. But now they were sitting on the throne of God, the only being higher than the president of the United ... something that was the beginning of the end of the world. Throughout my life I often felt like I was living in a shell of the better past. The sixties, the Beat Generation, the Lost Generation,...
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scientific american   -  1993 01  -  the turbulent birth of the milky way

scientific american - 1993 01 - the turbulent birth of the milky way

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... ones.Determining the relative ages of the halo and disk reveals much about the sequence of the formation of the gal-axy. On the other hand, it leaves open the question of how old the entire gal-axy ... tissue, the antibody blocked the attachment of the lymphocytes to high endothelial venules SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN January 1993 87cells. The L-selectins, or homing receptors, on lymphocytes determine the ... hasattached to the endothelium, it can migrate out of the blood vessel.Copyright 1992 Scientific American, Inc.66 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN January 1993 The corals lose algae, leaving their tis-sues so...
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scientific american   -  1993 03  -  black holes and the centrifugal force paradox

scientific american - 1993 03 - black holes and the centrifugal force paradox

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... determine the tension in the spring. The tension, in turn, equals the sum of the two forces acting on the weight: the gravitational force and the centrifugal force.To measure either one of these ... gravitational Þeld of the blackhole (that is, the rays were straight), the lamp would disappear behind the left part of the tube, and Alice wouldconclude that the tube was bent to the left. If the light ... change the orientation of their spaceships asthey orbit the black hole; both pilotsmust rotate their spacecraft so that the stretched spring always points towarda mark on the hull. The direction...
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scientific american   -  1993 04  -  controlling the quantum jitters of atoms

scientific american - 1993 04 - controlling the quantum jitters of atoms

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... microkelvins. In the process the coldest atoms mi-grate to the center of the trap, whereas the hotter atoms oscillate from one sideto the other. The hot atoms at the sidesof the trap can be ... ). They drop their colors and sneak into another maleÕs nest,inseminating the eggs present there.abcdCopyright 1993 Scientific American, Inc. the metal. The strong electric Þeld at the ... survival, they may suÝer longer from the nonfatal buthighly disabling illnesses associated with old age. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN April 1993 51Copyright 1993 Scientific American, Inc.82 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN...
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scientific american   -  1993 06  -  tuning in the radio signals of ancient galaxies

scientific american - 1993 06 - tuning in the radio signals of ancient galaxies

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... demon-strated in the laboratory. The EPR phenomenon is the linchpin of quantum teleportation. Alice takesone of the EPR photons and gives the other to Bob. Bob then moves to an-other location with the photon. ... Furthermore, if the hotend of the rod is then plunged into ice,a wave of cooling will follow the waveof heat down the length of the metal.In the same way, temperature ßuctua-tions at the ... throughout the length of the cilium. In addition, an extra pair of mi-crotubules not found in the centrioledevelops along the axis. The structureof the axoneme mirrors the ninefoldsymmetry of the...
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scientific american   -  1993 09  -  special issue  -  life, death, and the immune system

scientific american - 1993 09 - special issue - life, death, and the immune system

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... response to the an-tigen; soon their clones make up mostof the population in the centers.While they are proliferating, the Bcells also diÝerentiate and mutate. Theymodify the DNA in their gene ... SSC. Likeother colleagues at the laboratory, Billentered the Þeld to unravel the greatmysteries of physics, among them the question of why all the fundamentalparticles have the masses they do. ... the House voted to halt the SSC, the Senate rescued the laboratory. The fateof the collider now rests on the abilityof the Senate to pull oÝ the same featthis year. The SenateÕs chief SSC advo-cate,...
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scientific american   -  1993 10  -  is los angeles winning the war on smog

scientific american - 1993 10 - is los angeles winning the war on smog

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... between these two particles de-pends on the way they approach eachother. If the Þrst moves up directly be-neath the second, then the positivelycharged top of the Þrst is closest to the negatively ... to the forces at-tracting or repelling them. At the sametime, no matter in which direction the particles are headed, their poles pointeither up or down toward the elec-trodes. Together these ... closer to forcing the particles sideby side. If the chains tilt too far, the particles slip out of the zone in whichthey mutually attract, the chains breakand the material ßows. The amount ofstress...
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scientific american   -  1993 11  -  reading the genes of extinct species

scientific american - 1993 11 - reading the genes of extinct species

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... ÒDonahue.Ó Then,recalling the way he comforted the pregnant graduate student, I think,Why not? ÑJohn Horgan38 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN November 1993Copyright 1993 Scientific American, Inc. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ... and60B SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN November 1993Copyright 1993 Scientific American, Inc.there is another explanation as well.In 1982 my colleague Thierry Heid-mann and I further proposed that the ability ... better oÝ having their ownsymphony orchestras and other cultural oÝerings, they shouldalso keep their vital industries local.Copyright 1993 Scientific American, Inc.74 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN November...
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scientific american   -  1994 03  -  visiting yourself in the past

scientific american - 1994 03 - visiting yourself in the past

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... im-Copyright 1994 Scientific American, Inc.Copyright 1994 Scientific American, Inc.Copyright 1994 Scientific American, Inc.Copyright 1994 Scientific American, Inc.32 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN March 1994Clad ... occurs, the unchanged seg-ments of the cloned gene, together with the neorgene sandwiched betweenthem, replace the target sequence in the chromosome. But the tk gene, lyingoutside the zone ... measure of the perfor-mance of a bipolar transistor is the manner in which the gain of the tran-sistor (the ratio of the current switchedby the transistor to the current neededto turn the transistor...
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scientific american   -  1994 04  -  the dilemmas of prostate cancer

scientific american - 1994 04 - the dilemmas of prostate cancer

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... oÛce. The scrawny little specimens scurryingacross the surface of the spongelikenest are the workers; the soldiers lurkwithin. Wilson pulls a plug from the top of the nest and blows into the ... lauded The Diversity of Life as Òa38 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN April 1994Copyright 1994 Scientific American, Inc.Copyright 1994 Scientific American, Inc.more lethal diseases do, even thoughthey aÝect ... from the uterine lin-ing proliferates in other areas of the body, such as the bladder, intestine or,in rare cases, the lung. How these cellsreach the distant organs remains un-known. One theory...
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scientific american   -  1994 06  -  was there a race to the moon

scientific american - 1994 06 - was there a race to the moon

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... that Òdepending upon their view of the Apollo timetable, the Soviets mayfeel that there is some prospect of theirgetting to the moon Þrst, and they maypress their program in the hopes of be-ing ... by then they knewthat the U.S. intended to send humansinto orbit around the moon later thatmonth. This launch presented the Sovi-ets with perhaps their Þnal opportuni-ty to beat the Americans ... American presence on the moon, the U.S. lunar programalso soon wound down. The sixth andlast Apollo landing mission left the moon in December 1972. By then the lunar eÝort had clearly met the...
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scientific american   -  1994 10  -  special issue  -  life in the universe

scientific american - 1994 10 - special issue - life in the universe

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... accretion of the earth culminated in the diÝerentia-tion of the planet: the creation of the core the source of the earthÕs magnet-ic ÞeldÑand the beginning of the at-mosphere. In 1953 the classic ... hypoth-eses meet the test of observation andexperiment. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN October 1994 57FURTHER READINGLONELY HEARTS OF THE COSMOS: THE SCIENTIFIC QUEST FOR THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE. Dennis ... re-turned the elements to the space be-tween the stars. There gravitation mold-ed them into new stars and planets, andelectromagnetism cast them into the chemicals of life. The ink on this page,the...
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scientific american   -  1994 12  -  nasa's latest view of the earth

scientific american - 1994 12 - nasa's latest view of the earth

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... nerves. The CT images con-Þrm an earlier hypotheses by Kielan-Ja-worowska: the carotid arteries, the mainchannels supplying blood to the brainand the eye, enter the skull along the midline rather ... of the FlamingCopyright 1994 Scientific American, Inc. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN December 1994 73LOST CITY OF UBAR in southern Omanwas uncovered in 1992 using LANDSAT.As in the original data, the ... helix. The otheroligonucleotide winds around the deep major groove of the DNA double helix, pro-ducing a triple helix (bottom). The nucleotides (identiÞed by the Þrst letter of theirbases) in the...
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