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barracuda
barracuda slender, elongated fish of tropical seas. Barracudas have long snouts and projecting lower jaws armed with large, sharp-edged teeth. They are ferocious, striking at anything that gleams, and are considered excellent game fishes. The largest of the group, the great barracuda, averages 5 ft... Read more |
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David dAngers
David d'Angers or Pierre-Jean David , 1788-1856, French sculptor. His works are numerous and present national figures, often nude, in statues, busts, reliefs, and medallions. The pediment of the Panthéon in Paris shows a group of distinguished Frenchmen receiving wreaths from the hand of... Read more |
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Social Pathology
Pathology, Social BIBLIOGRAPHY Social pathology is a concept developed in modern social science to refer both to aspects of social structures and to the behaviors and values attributed to particular social categories. Definitions of social pathology are particular to specific times and reflect... Read more |
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lunacy
lunacy. A term describing insanity, once considered to have been due to changes of the moon, now used legally and colloquially but not by clinicians. In the middle ages, the symptoms and behaviour of those with mental disorders or defects were often ascribed to demonology or witchcraft, and some... Read more |
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Glossectomy
Glossectomy Definition A glossectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of the tongue. Purpose A glossectomy is performed to treat cancer of the tongue. Removing the tongue is indicated if the patient has a cancer that does not respond to other forms of treatment. In... Read more |
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Death Mask
D EATHM ASK A death mask is a wax or plaster cast of a person's face taken while he or she is alive or after their death. Usually the mask is created after the death of the person because of the danger imposed by its materials. The making of a reproduction of... Read more |
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Danger
DANGER As with many concepts a tentative definition of danger is based on its use in ordinary language: it signifies either a situation or set of circumstances that compromise the security or existence of a person or thing. Aside from the past or present, it can include future situations, that is,... Read more |
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internment
internment in international law, detention of the nationals or property of an enemy or a belligerent. A belligerent will intern enemy merchant ships or take them as prize , and a neutral should intern both belligerent ships that fail to leave its ports within a specified time and belligerent... Read more |
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scopolamine
scopolamine or hyoscine , alkaloid drug obtained from plants of the nightshade family (Solanaceae), chiefly from henbane , Hyoscyamus niger. Structurally similar to the nerve substance acetylcholine , scopolamine acts by interfering with the transmission of nerve impulses by acetylcholine in... Read more |
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Home of HMO industry still has "anemic" consumer protection; California's...
...Their positive rankings reveal the anemic level of consumer oversight of this powerful...the San Jose Mercury News point to the dangerous impact that unwritten gag rules have...protect consumers, superficial action is considered a positive advance. But consumers in... |
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Economists Closely Watch Consumer Prices, Trade Deficit for Signs of Recovery.
...percent of gross domestic product. At that level, considered dangerous territory by many economists, the United States has...deficit," Mr. Gay said. But other experts argue that anemic demand for American exports will more than offset... |
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Races of the week: O'Grady vs. McCarthy
...invincibility of the spendthrift former friend he by then considered a dangerous political enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. In Republican...American Conservative Union rating last year was an anemic 17%. She has voted repeatedly against a ban on partial... |
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AP Top News at 8:05 a.m. EST
...Sheriff's Office said suspect McCoy should be considered armed and dangerous. Investigators did not provide a hometown. (AP...to stick around through most of the year as the anemic jobs market restrains the Federal Reserve from raising... |
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AP Top News at 7:49 a.m. EST
...Sheriff's Office said suspect McCoy should be considered armed and dangerous. Investigators did not provide a hometown. (AP...to stick around through most of the year as the anemic jobs market restrains the Federal Reserve from raising... |
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AP Top News at 8:14 a.m. EST
...Sheriff's Office said suspect McCoy should be considered armed and dangerous. Investigators did not provide a hometown. (AP...to stick around through most of the year as the anemic jobs market restrains the Federal Reserve from raising... |
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AP Top News at 7:39 a.m. EST
...Sheriff's Office said suspect McCoy should be considered armed and dangerous. Investigators did not provide a hometown. (AP...to stick around through most of the year as the anemic jobs market restrains the Federal Reserve from raising |
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AP Top News at 8:12 a.m. EST
...Sheriff's Office said suspect McCoy should be considered armed and dangerous. Investigators did not provide a hometown. (AP...to stick around through most of the year as the anemic jobs market restrains the Federal Reserve from raising... |
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AP Top News at 8:16 a.m. EST
...Sheriff's Office said suspect McCoy should be considered armed and dangerous. Investigators did not provide a hometown. (AP...to stick around through most of the year as the anemic jobs market restrains the Federal Reserve from raising... |
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Cel{bull}e{bull}brate ; The case for Dictionary Day; The Word
...celebrations will consist entirely of anemic press releases from dictionary...1446. The new alphabet was considered to be so dangerous - by making literacy possible...s a cultural treasure and considered by linguists to be one of the... |
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