A powder derived from the North American Echinacea flower, which has been effective in preventing colds, is grown by many small farmers out West.
Trying to mimic some of the pitch variations of a dolphin chattering is the same as attempting to sing like a sick parakeet when one is intoxicated; the complete lack of harmony and apparent randomness of the noise means the human vocal chords are completely incapable of reproducing these sounds.
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The possibility of an attack on Indian Point, a nuclear power plant, has caused local governmental officials to plan evacuation routes, build shelters, and offering citizens potassium pills so there will be fewer casualties in case of a leak.
Although the sting of Egyptian Scorpions are rarely dangerous, they cause red welts to appear, posing minor health risks to infants, who are particularly vulnerable to its venom.
The catastrophic San Francisco Earthquake at the turn of the century destroyed numerous buildings and many were led to believe that the city had become a permanent disaster zone.
Besides offering such physiological rewards as toned muscles, karate, if practiced regularly, can turn the body into a dangerous weapon and produce numerous other benefits.
The new government requires employers to inform an employee of their legal right to holidays and overtime pay.
Riddled with bullets, shattered by bombs, and hidden in alleys, the historic buildings in Lodz, Poland, were long ignored by tourists, traveling instead to more well-known memorial museums.
Rallies organized in conjunction with the dissemination of democratic principles which was once prohibited by Communist Chinese leaders, are beginning to take shape at a grass roots level permitted by the new Chinese leadership.
By the end of the nineteenth century, five of the Western European states had developed a railroad system, but only one in the East.
Unlike in the other states in the tri-state area, there are no gasoline taxes set by state or local authorities in New Jersey.
Historians and philosophers in the late nineteenth century argued that Plato’s work was perhaps the ultimate work of political philosophy, that it was the one paradigm of political discourse that there was no possibility to supersede.
Although the initial setup of generators and a power grid by Edison and JP Morgan was rather costly, the electrification of lighting in lower Manhattan doubled work efficiency when the energy costs were cut in half.
Because the economic cycle in the United States changes little during its 20-year interval between recessing, it is fairly easy for analysts to predict analogous trends in the stock market.
After the attack on the World Trade Center, the President ordered intelligence agencies should prepare lists of who were America’s most wanted terrorists.
The exhibit, created by painstaking craftsmanship in the jungles of Burma, consisted of hundreds of paintings, each painting a tiny etched landscape inside its own ceramic work of pottery.
More than one hundred years ago, students of ornithology reported that hummingbirds can hover as insects flitting gracefully from one flower to another.
In an effort to shorten the time span and cut the costs needed to raise full-size beef stock, many ranchers substitute cornmeal and ground bones for their cattle’s regular diet, branded by them to become generic-grade beef.
New high-combustion models of engines show the potential of being able to produce high horsepower and performance without the costly requirements of maintenance and consuming of special racing fuel by earlier high horsepower models.
Forced to cut back their stock, automobile dealers in the area have cut prices; their pick-up trucks have been priced to sell, and they are.
In the most bizarre court case this month, the judge ruled that two ping-pong ball manufacturers owed restitution to four national ping-pong teams for the illegal weighting of the ping-pong balls in an effort to fix the tournament.
The electronics manufacturer announced that while earnings grew by 5% in the last quarter, revenue decreased whereas it might have been expected for it to rise.
The Chinese army consists of several million young men, about equivalent to the enrollment of colleges in India.
In the United States, a larger percentage of the defense budget is spent on development of an anti-missile shield than is spent on nuclear missile technology in the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea.
Statisticians from the Department of Motor Vehicles have calculated that one human being should be struck every three minutes by a vehicle, while each minute two animals can be expected to die from such collisions.
Acme, the family oriented entertainment company, has moved away from traditional family programming and now draws on the production both of adult entertainers who work for magazines and of those in the movie industry.
Although coffee is not usually considered a drug, it is so addictive that it has become a critical part of breakfast for many people.
The survey showed that children are much more psychologically stable when raised in a family with two parents than in a family where one parent only cares for the child.
The CEO has proposed a new policy requiring that employees should retain all pensions indefinitely or be allowed to cash them in at retirement.
The recently discovered notes of the writer suddenly revealed that this most timid and shy of women was an intellectual giant guided in both emotional and spiritual activities by a sharp sense of moral courage.