TRAIL, British Columbia (UPI) — A smelter leak of acid and a ton of lead into the Columbia River in British Columbia had Canadian and U.S. environmental officials taking water samples Friday. The spill happened in Trail, British Columbia, Wednesday night at the Teck Cominco Metal plant several miles north of the border, and the […]

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WASHINGTON (UPI) — U.S. nuclear regulators say doctors need to take extra care to make sure young children aren’t exposed to radiation from thyroid cancer patients. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said patients given therapeutic doses of radioactive iodine-131 should avoid direct or indirect contact with infants and young children for a specific period of time […]

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The TGV is France’s train a grande vitesse; literally “high-speed train.” It connects cities in France and in some other neighbouring countries, such as Belgium, Italy and Switzerland with the network centred on Paris. TGVs under other brand names connect France with Germany and the Netherlands (Thalys) and the United Kingdom (Eurostar). Trains derived from […]

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aberrant a-BERR-unt; AB-ur-unt (adjective) – Markedly different from an accepted norm; Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; abnormal. “Another factor the court had to consider was whether the crime was part of a single period of aberrant behavior.” — Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, ‘Sullivan’s Evidence’ That which is aberrant is literally that which “wanders away […]

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This is a list of comments from test papers, essays, etc., submitted to science and health teachers by elementary, junior high, high school, and college students: It is truly astonishing what weird science our young scholars can create under the pressures of time and grades. The spellings are the original ones. 1. H2O is hot […]

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