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 Coastal Pollution: Effects on Living Resources and Humans (Marine Science)
In 1996, after more than a decade of researching the effects of over-population and the consequent pollution of the greater metropolitan New York City area, Carl Sindermann published his observations and conclusions in Ocean Pollution: Effects on Living Resources and Humans, a mostly technical document that emphasized the pathological effects... | | Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit
As night settled on April 20, 2010, a series of explosions rocked Deepwater Horizon, the immense semisubmersible drilling platform leased by British Petroleum, located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. The ensuing inferno claimed 11 lives, and it would rage uncontained for two days, until its wreckage sank to a final resting place nearly a... | | Windows Azure Platform
In the past couple of years, cloud computing has emerged as a disruptive force in the information
technology (IT) industry. Its impact is of the same magnitude as the Internet and offshoring. Gartner
Research has identified cloud computing as one of the “top 10 disruptive technologies 2008–2012.”
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As a young man, this career shift wasn’t entirely motivated by a need to restore the right-left
hemisphere balance to my young brain; it may also have had something to do with the worry
that knowing a lot about Alan Turing and C++ was probably not the best way to get a girlfriend.
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Intermediate Perl
Perl’s object-oriented mechanism is classic prestidigitation. It takes a collection of Perl’s
existing non-OO features such as packages, references, hashes, arrays, subroutines,
and modules, and then–with nothing up its sleeve–manages to conjure up fully functional
objects, classes, and ... | | Endurance: Winning Life's Majors the Phil Mickelson Way
As one of the five clubs that founded the United States Golf
Association and with the first and oldest clubhouse in the
United States (opened in 1892), Shinnecock Hills in
Southampton, New York, is America’s version of St. Andrews,
a links course bathed in beauty and rock-hard difficulty colored
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The Lucent Library of Science and Technology - Virtual Reality
The twentieth-century scientific and technological
revolution that British physicist Stephen Hawking
describes in the above quote has transformed virtually
every aspect of human life at an unprecedented pace.
Inventions unimaginable a century ago have not only
become commonplace but are now considered necessities
of daily... | | Lonely Planet East Africa (Multi Country Guide)
“Gentle gorillas, stampeding wildebeest, snowcapped peaks, paradisiacal beaches and an amazing array of tribal cultures – all this and more await you in East Africa, one of Africa’s most enticing corners.” – Mary Fitzpatrick, Lonely Planet Writer
Our Promise
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Maui, also called the Valley Isle, is just a small dot in the vast Pacifi c Ocean, but it has the potential to offer visitors unforgettable experiences: fl oating weightless through rainbows of tropical fi sh, standing atop a 10,000-foot volcano watching the sunrise color the sky, and listening to the raindrops in a bamboo forest.
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