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Speech Or Debate Clause
Speech Or Debate Clause The Constitution provides that members of Congress “for any Speech or Debate in either House … shall not be questioned in any other Place” (Art. I, sec. 6). This protection, which grew out of centuries of struggle between the English parliament and... Read more |
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Digital libraries
Digital Libraries The term "digital library" was coined relatively recently and is used to describe distributed access to collections of digital information. The terms "electronic library" and "virtual library" are sometimes also used. However, there is still considerable... Read more |
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Internet pornography
C YBERPORN A Pitfall on the Information Superhighway The Internet brought quick, easy access to information into homes and offices worldwide in the 1990s. Bright entrepreneurs developed various e-commerce sites, and the web became a viable place of business for many,... Read more |
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Methodology
Methodology A BODY OF RULES AND POSTULATES A PARTICULAR PROCEDURE OR SET OF PROCEDURES ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPLES METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE QUANTITATIVE VERSUS QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS BIBLIOGRAPHY The term methodology may be defined in at least three ways: (1) a body of... Read more |
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Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man The remains of an ancient human found along a river in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996 set off a heated debate about the ownership and future of the skeleton. Scientists argued that the skeleton, dubbed Kennewick Man, could provide new information about human migration in North America,... Read more |
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES, seven joint debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 senatorial election campaign in Illinois. The debates marked the culmination of a political rivalry that had its origin twenty-five years before, when both were... Read more |
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Prigg v. Pennsylvania
PRIGG V. PENNSYLVANIA A pre–Civil War case, Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. (16 Pet.) 539, 10 L. Ed. 1060 (1842), declared unconstitutional all fugitive slave laws enacted by the states on the ground that the federal law provided the exclusive remedy for the return of runaway slaves. The... Read more |
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informed consent
informed consent in medicine, a patient's written consent to a surgical or medical procedure or other course of treatment, given after the physician has told the patient all of the potential benefits, risks, and alternatives involved. Informed consent is also required for participation in clinical... Read more |
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individualistic hypothesis
individualistic hypothesis The view, first proposed by H. A. Gleason in 1917, that vegetation is continuously variable in response to a continuously varying environment. Thus, no two vegetation communities are identical. It implies also that vegetation cannot be classified, and that recognition of... Read more |
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Examining a Climate Conundrum
...Things Considered 04-27-2010 Examining a Climate Conundrum Host: MICHELE NORRISTime 20:00-21...contentious question about the Earth's climate. Dr. JOHN FASULLO (Project Scientist, Climate Analysis Section, National Center for... |
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Pondering a climate conundrum in Antarctica; Unique, distinct cooling trend...
...January 2002-US NSF: Pondering a climate conundrum in Antarctica; Unique, distinct...poses challenges to models of climate and ecosystem change." The findings are puzzling because many climate models indicate that the Polar... |
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The Climate Conundrum Over Nuclear Energy
...Morning Edition 12-11-2009 The Climate Conundrum Over Nuclear Energy Host: STEVE...hoping to work out a deal on climate change. That's proving to be...nuclear power, even in the face of climate change. But the Union of Concerned... |
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Climate conundrum.(www.FarmJournal.com)
* Climate Conundrum: Turn to FARM JOURNAL to stay current on climate change legislation and reactions. |
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Climate conundrum; YouSay Email:letters@liverpoolecho.co.uk.(Letters)
THE term "climate change" means different things to different people and I guess the...across the north American continent are going to pose something of a conundrum. Folk who live on the western side of the continent are having to import... |
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The Climate-Change Conundrum
...Political Connections There's a conundrum at the core of the sharpening debate over climate change. It may be impossible...a successor to the Kyoto climate agreement by December 2009...executive director for energy and climate at the private U.N. ... |
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The Climate Conundrum
Should climate change continue to alter NH's weather...oak. By the end of the century, NH's climate will resemble that of Virginia or Tennessee...emissions have already altered New England's climate, and NH businesses and state officials... |
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Climate conundrum: farm groups and Congress stay divided on climate...
...under contract in 2006 with the Chicago Climate Exchange. Even though Rundahl has cashed...he has mixed emotions about current climate legislation. "I like the voluntary program...considering options to advance a massive climate bill that will require U.S. industry... |
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Climate conundrum: a fund to finance the transfer of energy efficient...
...of the few major achievements of the UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen, but problems...developing countries both to adapt to climate change and to mitigate or curb global...says Joop Oude Lohuis, head of the climate change and sustainable development unit... |
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Cameron's climate conundrum
...Independent professes itself rather baffled by climate- change sceptics. As with most conspiracy...Why? Why would more than 90 per cent of climate scientists invent the idea of global warming...authority and develops his policies on climate change over the next six months is ... |