June 3rd, 2008 by admin
ennui on-WEE (noun) – A feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction arising from lack of interest; boredom.
“The day at Swampscott passed in ennui, the lack of activity causing the three attorneys to make constant calls to their offices in the hopes that someone wanted their services…” — Robert Ludlum, ‘The Road to Omaha’
Ennui is from the French, from Old French enui, “annoyance,” from enuier, “to annoy, to bore,” from the Latin phrase in odium, “in hatred or dislike.”
June 3rd, 2008 by admin
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June 2nd, 2008 by admin
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 smelter was immediately shut down, the Vancouver Sun reported.
Water samples were being taken at regular intervals on both sides of the border, the report said.
The B.C. Ministry of Environment said in a news release it was “highly unlikely” the spill would affect groundwater wells due to “the dilution of the spill in the spring high-flow conditions.”
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
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June 2nd, 2008 by admin
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 following the therapy. The guidance also recommends that physicians should consider hospitalizing patients whose living conditions may result in the contamination of infants and young children, the agency said in a release.
NRC regulations allow physicians to release patients treated with radioactive material if the total radiation dose to any other person exposed to the patient is not likely to exceed 500 millirem. The agency, however, said there has been concern in recent years that saliva from a patient in the first few days following treatment may result in significant radiation doses to the child’s thyroid.
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June 1st, 2008 by admin
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 TGV design also operate in South Korea (KTX), and Spain (AVE).
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June 1st, 2008 by admin
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 from” what is accepted, ordinary, normal, natural, etc., aberrant being from Latin aberro, aberrare, to wander off, to lose one’s way, from ab, away from + erro, errare, to wander.
June 1st, 2008 by admin
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 water, and CO2 is cold water.
2. To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube.
3. When you smell an oderless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide.
4. Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is water and gin.
5. A super saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold.
6. Liter: A nest of young puppies.
7. Magnet: Something you find crawling all over a dead cat.
8. Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away.
9. Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives.
10. Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull.
11. The pistol of the flower is its only protection against insects.
12. A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is.
13. To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose.
14. For a nosebleed: Put the nose much lower that the heart until the heart stops.
15. For head colds: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat.
16. Germinate: To become a naturalized German.
17. The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
18. Blood flows down one leg and up the the other.
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May 31st, 2008 by admin
The title of Hero of Ukraine is the highest award that can be conferred by the Government of Ukraine. The title was created in 1998 by President Leonid Kuchma, and it is currently awarded in two distinctions: one for heroism and one for great achievements in labor.
Since Borys Paton first received the title in 1998, 144 people have been awarded the title. Decorations that are similar to the Hero of Ukraine are Russia’s Hero of the Russian Federation and Belarus’s Hero of Belarus. All of those decorations were influenced in some way by decorations awarded by the Soviet Union.
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May 31st, 2008 by admin
edacious i-DAY-shus (adjective) – Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
“Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea.” — Henry White Warren, ‘Among The Forces’
Edacious is from Latin edax, edac-, gluttonous, consuming, from edo, edere, to eat.
May 31st, 2008 by admin
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The U.S. space agency said Ed Weiler, interim chief of its science directorate, has been named the directorate’s permanent director.
“I’m very pleased to have Ed officially accept a more long-term position as science chief,” said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin. “His leadership style and 26 years of headquarters experience will be vital to the success of upcoming science activities and missions.”
Weiler will direct a wide variety of research and scientific exploration programs for Earth studies, space weather, the solar system and the universe, NASA officials said.
He was a member of the Princeton University space astrophysics research staff from 1976-78, when he joined NASA as a staff scientist. He became chief of the space agency’s Ultraviolet/Visible and Gravitational Astrophysics Division the following year and also served as the chief scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope from 1979-98.
Weiler was then appointed director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in August 2004 after serving as associate administrator for the agency’s Space Science Enterprise from 1998-2004.
A native of Chicago, Weiler earned his doctorate in Astrophysics at Northwestern University in 1976.
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