.... have the potentials to mutate, reproduce, multiply and spread over an extensive geographical territory through wind, animal and insect transmission. Also, unlike chemical weapons, due to its’ lively state biological agents tend to find niches, and continue to grow exponentially without termination. Because it hardly reaches a closure, biological weapons are not widely used. Nevertheless, history states it has been used during World Wars (I & II), cold war, and last but not least, also very recently in Tokyo, Japan by terrorists. Using such lethal weaponry kill .....

.... Some time after the war, many veterans of Vietnam reported rashes, mental conditions, and were found to have cancer. After much research it was found that Agent Orange which contained , specifically 2,3,7,8, TCDD, was responsible for these medical conditions. After the Agent Orange controversy lost their space in the spot light for some time until the mid-eighties up to now. are released in four major ways. One is the incineration and combustion of products containing chlorine, which happens mostly in our municipal incineration plants. A second source .....

.... the people themselves that live by these traditions get fed up with all the side-effects caused by the practice of FGM. It is every person and community's right to decide for themselves, without the intervention of outsiders, to decide to do whatever they want to do to their bodies and minds. I know, "these women that are being circumcised, aren't freely deciding on this to be done to them, they don't know any better, they've been brainwashed". I have two responses to this. The first is, if they have grown up in this culture all their lives, and this proc .....

.... Half were boys, half girls, and all were between the ages of fifteen and seventeen. Over more than four hours of conversation, it became clear that most teens smoked for two seemingly contradictory reasons: They want to be part of a peer group, while rejecting society and its norms. They want to reach out and rebel at the same time."(Roberts 38) Tobacco companies spend four billion dollars each year in advertising and promotional costs and claim there is no health risk. Six hundred thousand people die every year from smoking related illness, and others quit. .....

.... does not produce hyperactivity or impair vision like other drugs, such as, cocaine or methanfedamines. Marijuana as opposed to cocaine and methanfedamines is not addictive. Cocaine and methanfedamines are however legal for specific medical uses. When marijuana is mentioned in emergency room episodes, it is only in conjunction with other drugs. This is because marijuana can not induce overdoses like other, more harmful drugs. Harvard psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon describes several possible benefits of marijuana which include, easing nausea and vomiting caused b .....

.... developed a way of looking at brain waves that is more sensitive than methods previously available, " says Skarf. At the HSC, VEP's are used in a number of clinical applications: to determine whether a visual problem is cognitive; to assess whether babies who don't appear to see well will see better in the future; to determine a course of treatment for such problems in which one eye turns in or is weaker than the other eye. The second aspect of the researchers' work involves the development of a stimulator for stereopsis, or binocular vision, which is the fusi .....

.... of synthesizing his product and achieving his goal that he did not stop to think of the ramifications of his accomplishment. The ethical dilemma was not explored before hand, and this to me is the great tragedy of most scientific discovery, since I firmly believe each scientist is responsible for that which he creates. Djerassi does confront a few questions of ethics and morality after the fact. On page 61, in chapter 6, he reflects on the argument of the use of poor Mexican and Puertorrican women for preliminary experiments. Is this just another manifest .....

.... gloves when handling wounds, the risk of transmitting the disease is significantly lowered and the integrity of the child with AIDS remains protected. This idea has many faults. For one, children simply cannot be watched at all times. Referring to my earlier statement that kids will be kids. Also, what kind of environment is it to learn in when your teacher can't treat your scrapes without putting rubber gloves on first, a situation which will certainly lead to ridicule from peers. There is a simpler, more affective way of dealing with this issue. .....