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Gentry's appealing heroine, who gets ample opportunity to display her resourcefulness and fortitude, and the intriguing milieu in which she operates, should ensure both a warm reception and a speedy encore."--Publishers WeeklyAnsel Phoenix draws dinosaurs for magazines, books, and museum displays. But one morning, digging with students out in the field, she unearths the body of colleague and ex-lover Nick Capos. Shocked and grieved over the mu...

From 1962 to 1971, US military forces sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that helped conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that enemy forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of US base camps and outlying fire-support bases. Mixtures of 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-D), 2, 4, 5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4, 5-T), picloram, and cacodylic acid made up the ma...

The central idea of evidence-based education-that education policy and practice ought to be fashioned based on what is known from rigorous research-offers a compelling way to approach reform efforts. Recent federal trends reflect a growing enthusiasm for such change. Most visibly, the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act requires that "scientifically based [education] research" drive the use of federal education funds at the state and local levels. T...

Principal-investigator (PI) Earth science missions are small, focused science projects involving relatively small spacecraft. The selected PI is responsible for the scientific and programmatic success of the entire project. A particular objective of PI-led missions has been to help develop university-based research capacity. Such missions, however, pose significant challenges that are beyond the capabilities of most universities to manage. To ...

The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 resulted in the death of around 2, 000 residents living near chemical plants and irreversible injuries to more than 20, 000 other residents. These numbers can be attributed to the community's lack of awareness concerning the chemicals' existence, dangers and effects, and/or how to react in case of emergency. The disaster emphasized the need for governments to identify hazardous substances and to aid local communitie...

This project was supported by the Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, Grant No. N01-OD-4-2139, Task Order #103"--T.p. verso.

The Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) Journals and Its Implications addressed five key areas. The first two areas addressed?costs of publication and publication business models and revenue?focused on the STM publishing enterprise as it exists today and, in particular, how it has evolved since the advent of electronic publishing. The following section reviewed copyright and licensing issues of concern to the autho...

Mathematical sciences play a key role in many important areas of Homeland Security including data mining and image analysis and voice recognition for intelligence analysis, encryption and decryption for intelligence gathering and computer security, detection and epidemiology of bioterriost attacks to determine their scope, and data fusion to analyze information coming from simultaneously from several sources. This report presents the results o...

This book, "Cherished in the Byways", is intended to inspire poor and abused young people to succeed, even if support from family is not available. I have written about an experience: As a young African-American--one of eleven children whose father never earned more that fifty-five dollars in any week, I arrived at Chicago's Union Station with a duffel bag containing everything I owned in this world and twenty-eight dollars in cash. I knew no ...

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Many books have been written with respect to either time management, quality control/assurance, cost control or the likes. However, if you apply them in isolation, you may compromise either time, quality or cost. As a result, many people just accept the so called balance between time, quality and cost. To the writer, that balance is not good enough. So for the first time, a book is written with the view to acquire the three important values in...

When a giant rainstorm crashes over a cargo ship, an entire crate of plastic bath toys washes into the sea. For many days, one yellow duck bobs on a vast ocean of dangerous sharks and breathtaking sunsets. Based on an actual event that occurred in 1992. Full color.

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Nobody captured the landscape and faces of the American people the way John Ford did, in films such as The Searchers, Stagecoach and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He hid his sensitivity beneath a hard-drinking, exaggeratedly Irish exterior, but Joseph McBride's biography succeeds in penetrating Ford's habitual reticence and sheds light upon previously unknown aspects of his professional endeavours.

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