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From Legend To Science The Health Benefits Of Tea
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No one is sure where and when tea was first brewed; stories about tea's origins are more myth than reality. One story tells that a legendary Chinese leader and medical expert, Sheng Nong, discovered tea as a medicinal herb in 2737 B.C. One day while he was boiling water under a tea tree, some tea leaves fell into Sheng's pot of boiling water. After drinking some tea, he discovered its miraculous powers and immediately placed tea on his list of medicinal herbs.
John Blofeld, in Chinese Art of Tea, writes that ¡§it can be confidently stated that tea was known in the three kingdoms epoch (AD 222-277).¡¨ More importantly, however, ¡§tea [was] orig .....
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Canabis
<view this essay>.... was also used in making clothing because of it's durability. These uses fit in with the social climate of the time, because the main focus was on survival rather than for psychoactive purposes. During the prohibition, marijuana was widely used because of the scarcity of alcohol. Prohibition was repealed after just thirteen years while the prohibition against marijuana lasted for more than seventy five years. This double standard may have resulted from the wishes of those in power. Alcohol prohibition struck directly at tens of millions of Americans of all ages, including many of societies most powerful members. Marijuana prohibition threatened far fewer Ameri .....
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UFOs Exist
<view this essay>.... exist.
What are UFOs? A UFO is an unidentified light or object in the air that has no obvious explanation. The expression unidentified flying object ". . . is thought to have origionated with Air Forse Captian Edward Ruppelt . . ."(Ritche 220). This was introduced to replace the term flying saucer. UFO sightings first started in the late 1800s, but there weren't that many until the 1940s. In the 1940s UFO sightings were being told all over the world. Since the 1940s UFOs are seen every day by people all over the world. Ufologists have come up with a system to divide UFO incidents into three major types of close encounters.
First, close encounter of the fir .....
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Intel Vs. Amd The True Story (intel Bias)
<view this essay>.... Intel's new line of processors named Pentium III they now have their own SIMD, KNI (Katmai New Instruction). AMD's line of processors used to be able to keep up with Intel using 3DNOW but with KNI Intel will once again take a very large lead in speed. Thus I believe Intel builds better and faster processors than AMD.
The first ever problems AMD had were with incompatibility problems that plagued their entire line of CPU's until the K6. These problems hurt AMD because nobody wanted a CPU that could not run 15% of the programs out. People wanted a processor that had programs optimized specifically for it, people wanted a computer with a sticker that said "In .....
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Greenpeace
<view this essay>.... laugh at, were feeded to the
public. The questionable procedures that have been used in the campaigns against
the Faroe Islands however is not a general perspective of Greenpeace and their
actions. But the keyword for Greenpeace and what is common for almost every
venture that Greenpeace takes, is that they are active. Greenpeace does not
believe in bureaucracy, and is that something that we should respect. Taking on
a action for Greenpeace sometimes means that you have to break the law or at
least bend it a little. In USA where they protested against some factories
which deliberately lead their toxic waste to lakes nearby, Greenpeace sealed the
pipes, from w .....
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Magnesium
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1.58 g.cm-3 at 650RC (1)
Melting point 650ºC
Boiling point 1103ºC
Crystal structure close-packed hexagonal
Heat of combustion 25020 kJ.kg -1
Flame temperature ~2800ºC
Heat of fusion 368 kJ.kg-1
Heat of vaporisation 5272 kJ.kg-1
Specific heat 1025 J.K -1.kg at 20ºC
Vapour pressure 20 Pa at 527ºC(s)
360 Pa at 650ºC (1)
1400 Pa at 727ºC
Valence states Mg2+
Viscosity 1.25 cp at 650ºC (1)
The magnesium element has the atomic number of 12 and atomic weight of
24.3050. It's symbol is .....
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Hail
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Many people confuse sleet with hail. They say sleet looks like
small hailstones, but sleet is really frozen raindrops. Unlike hail, sleet
forms near the ground in cold weather.
The biggest hailstone ever found was discovered in Coffeyville, a
small town in southeast Kansas. This hailstone weighed 1.671 pounds and
was 17.5 inches in circumference. The largest stone previously on record
was almost the same size. It was found in Potter, Nebraska on July 6, 1928.
The hailstone had a circumference of 17 inches and weighed 1.51 pounds
(Dennis 54).
Hail can be extremely dangerous. It can break windows, damage
roofs, dent cars, injur .....
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Hiv
<view this essay>.... now exists for AIDS. Many of those infected with may not even be aware that they carry and can spread the virus. Combating it is a major challenge to biomedical scientists and health-care providers. infection and AIDS represent among the most pressing public-policy and public-health problems worldwide.
COSTS
I think that the AIDS epidemic is having a profound impact on many aspects of medicine and health care. The U.S. Public Health Service estimates that in 1993, the lifetime cost of treating a person with AIDS from infection to death is approximately $119,000. Outpatient care, including medication, visits to doctors, home health aids, and long-term care, a .....
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