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Pura Vida

By: Florentin Smarandache

...Este periculos de mers prin pădurea tropicală din cauza şerpilor şi-a insectelor care pot provoca boli tropicale. Trebuie echipament special: bocanci contra şerpilor, un toiag cu care să ţii şerpii la distanţă, repelent (o substanţă cu care să te ungi pentru a ...

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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

...urtroom, he’ll give him a sentence of about fifteen years. At about twenty-five, he will fall prey to one of those deadly prison diseases. He will be... ...life. The timelessness feeling. The lack of hastiness. The hunger. The poverty. The dry seasons. The wet seasons. The pain. The diseases. The genuin... ...on’t want to die in this weather. I don’t want to be buried in this weather. Will they even bury me? Give me Malawi. Give me the tropical weather an...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

... Audrey Blankenhagen 24 recovered,’ replied Helen confidently, glad that she had specialised in tropical diseases. Her next test was a young blond... ...lankenhagen 24 recovered,’ replied Helen confidently, glad that she had specialised in tropical diseases. Her next test was a young blonde woman, ... ...without consulting your husband, opened a clinic for the poor, exposing yourself to all manner of diseases,’ said Gavin, looking down at his wife wi... ...len, at her wit’s end, remembered Dr. Patel at the clinic. The Parsi physician had specialised in tropical diseases and poisoning from snake bites a... ...er wit’s end, remembered Dr. Patel at the clinic. The Parsi physician had specialised in tropical diseases and poisoning from snake bites and perhap... ...d relief forces would come to their aid? The lower temperatures at least prevented the spread of diseases such as cholera, although dysentery was s...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...uence, they refuse to intervene to counter or contain natural processes, including diseases and famine. The politicization of environmental concern... ...mber of the famished is declining, biodiversity loss is slowing as do pollution and tropical deforestation. In the long run, even in pockets of env...

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Smallholder Dairying in the Tropics

By: Lindsay Falvey & Charan Chantalakhana

...ditors, the chapter authors, and all those who made this work possible. We trust that this book will help improve smallholder dairy production in the tropical world. Hank Fitzhugh Director General International Livestock Research Institute Editors Professor Lindsay Falvey is Dean of the Institute of Land and Food Resources at the University of Melbourne, Austr...

...ons Suggested reading Chapter 2: Dairy production systems in the tropics P. N. de Leeuw, A. Omore, S. Staal and W. Thorpe Global overview of tropical dairy production Sub-Saharan Africa Asia Central and South America Dairy production systems in sub-Saharan Africa Dairy production systems in Asia Dairy production systems in Latin America Dual-purpose systems...

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French Natural Remedies & Recipes from Beautiful Tasmania

By: Christiane Guise

...orrhoids. Infused in almond oil or cooked in lard, it is excellent against skin diseases. Do not forget to try the beautiful flowers in salads. Ca... ...e some allergy. Cinnamon Cinnamon is the herb of seduction. It only grows in tropical area but you can buy it anywhere. It is very good to trea... ... during pregnancy and breast-feeding. People with intestinal problems and skin diseases should avoid it. Ginseng In China, ginseng is a divine pla... ...nd vitamins A and C. It is better fresh. Pepper Though pepper mainly grows in tropical regions, you can buy any kinds of pepper anywhere. Pepper... ...ry good antioxidants especially when cooked in olive oil. They fight infectious diseases and boost the immune system. However, people suffering fro... ... vomiting and diarrhoea. Avoid it during pregnancy and if you suffer from heart diseases. Violet Violet was Io’s favourite flower. It symbolises ... ...High levels of cholesterol and high blood pressure are the main causes of heart diseases; unfortunately, traditional medicines not only lose their e...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...otels and cultural attractions, all provided in a setting of unparalleled tropical beauty. The scenic splendor, the cultural diversity of our cosmop... ... capacity ballroom State-of-the-art audio and video services 22-acres of tropical gardens with 5 resort pools 2,860 guest rooms and suites 18 rest... ...ian experience, a postcard view of Diamond Head, the turquoise Pacific and tropical sunsets nightly. Where business meets pleasure. Award-winning Exe... ... capacity ballroom State-of-the-art audio and video services 22-acres of tropical gardens with 5 resort pools 2,860 guest rooms and suites 18 rest... ...ian experience, a postcard view of Diamond Head, the turquoise Pacific and tropical sunsets nightly. Where business meets pleasure. Award-winning Exe... ...re, ethnicity and geography have diferent outcomes for the same types of diseases,” says Dr. Jerris R. Hedges, dean of the University of Hawai‘i at... ...ple, researchers want to know why some population groups experience more diseases or worse diseases than others. They are investigating what health... ...mine which groups have the highest incidence of cancer and other chronic diseases. At the same time, they are examining risk factors such as diet ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ledgling field of psychology redirected his interests so that he began to study the motivations of people and the psychological nature of some diseas... ...rm that would cover all of the cases in which there was a physical cause, such as hereditarily abnormal brain functioning, problems caused by diseas... ... ―Money spent preventing something is usually a whole lot less than money spent correcting something. Look at the vaccines that prevent diseas... ...all of the economy, rather than pursue financial security in business he left for Tahiti to satisfy his love of painting and the beauty of the tropic...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...se problems. The immediate depopulation of Indians due to European induced diseases such as smallpox, was taken as Divine Providence’s endorsement of ... ...lia there are contrasting regions. The dramatic wet and dry seasons of the tropical north, the temperate southern woodlands and grassy tablelands, for... ...shed directly by murder and mistreatment, or indirectly through introduced diseases, it followed upon removal of their religion and culture in the tak... ...e creation myth of the Wunambal and related tribes in the Kimberley in the tropical northwest of Western Australia, while demonstrating some regional ... ...g is united with the physical world. Creation is on a grander scale in the tropical Kimberley myth of the Wunambal than in the desert myth of Jarapiri... ...ol- ic combination as are Ungud and Walanganda. In both places, desert and tropical, Aborigines identify with 152. For fuller accounts of the painting...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...rious bombardment -- An expedition against Panama -- Forcing a way through the tropical growth of Central America -- Storming a fortress -- An act of ... ...uries. -- An expedition up Chagres River -- 1200 men exposed to the dangers of tropical floods and starvation -- Perils encountered from alligators --... ...mals in shallow graves -- A dance with Samoyed girls -- Into an unknown sea -- Tropical birds in the Arctic region -- Some strange facts -- Remarkable... ... many kinds, such as are generally to be found only in the high temperature of tropical countries; so that the rude and savage peoples of Greenland, s... ... are three images of the same vessel, two in the water and one in the air. The tropical seas are full of optical wonders. The Arctic Region abounds wi... ...hich the crew fell, for most of them were now attacked by strange and horrible diseases that temporarily destroyed reason, so that more than one-half ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...or film. You want innovation and invention. You want drugs that cure terrible diseases, 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 1 and designs for mor... ...well- being of the pets of the wealthy is “worth more” than the lives of the tropical world’s poor. But for a lot of products, in a lot of areas, the ... ...t us. It might help to cut the costs of early-stage drug development, as the Tropical Disease Initiative attempts to do for neglected diseases. It wil... ...development, as the Tropical Disease Initiative attempts to do for neglected diseases. It will not generate a Phase III drug trial or bring a drug to ... ...even been suggested for encouraging investment in treatments for neg- lected diseases and diseases of the world’s poor. At the moment, we spend 90 per... ... world’s poor. At the moment, we spend 90 percent of our research dollars on diseases that affect 10 percent of the global population. Perhaps this is...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ned mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism – Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, thus, in the nu... ... (and, thus, in the number of human Entropic Agents). The Assimilative Mechanism – Diseases, old and new, and other phenomena yield negative demogr... ...heart ailments are related to modern Western diet, AIDS, avian flu, SARS, and other diseases are a result of hitherto unknown or mutated strains of ... ...argely due to centuries of in- breeding - share the same genetic makeup. Hereditary diseases which afflict only the Jews attest to the veracity of t... ...wed, and chewed on? IV. Medical Reasons Infrequently, cannibalism results in prion diseases of the nervous system, such as kuru. The same paternali... ...mber of the famished is declining, biodiversity loss is slowing as do pollution and tropical deforestation. In the long run, even in pockets of env...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ned mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism – Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, thus, in the nu... ... (and, thus, in the number of human Entropic Agents). The Assimilative Mechanism – Diseases, old and new, and other phenomena yield negative demogr... ...heart ailments are related to modern Western diet, AIDS, avian flu, SARS, and other diseases are a result of hitherto unknown or mutated strains of ... ...argely due to centuries of in- breeding - share the same genetic makeup. Hereditary diseases which afflict only the Jews attest to the veracity of t... ...wed, and chewed on? IV. Medical Reasons Infrequently, cannibalism results in prion diseases of the nervous system, such as kuru. The same paternali... ...mber of the famished is declining, biodiversity loss is slowing as do pollution and tropical deforestation. In the long run, even in pockets of env...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...haise by the sea. Lacey got books and pamphlets and pored over pictures of tropical beaches with Jake, but they both knew it was a sham – that they wo... ...ath away. Sick and dying people, all of whom were victims of terrible lung diseases, surrounded her. In spite of all this, Lacey was happier than she ... ...nd-of-Life Network CARENET)] The study surveys 440 patients with end-stage diseases at five Canadian hospitals, and explores appropriate discussion am...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ca: the increased energy levels were imbalanced. On one side, you have a lush tropical forest with tons of diversity in all levels except animal. W... ...els except animal. Why? Because it is sitting on a weak soil energy system. Tropical forests have too much rain. That rain washes away most of th... ...cially tolerated or approved and some are not, and some are merely regarded as diseases, or dysfunctions, or… as sacred traditions, or sacred customs... ...o stem-cell research of human DNA, then it may be able to find a cure for such diseases as Alzheimer’s. So far, this kind of research has been banne... ...ll 80% of Napoleon’s Grande Armee retreating from Moscow; had a host of sexual diseases that were so virulent, and infected them so deeply: that thei... ...ges they plundered. Everywhere his armies went: they spread a host of sexual diseases. Everywhere they went: they raped women and children. Instea... ...w away? What sense does it make to scream about the destruction of a faraway tropical jungle, while ignoring all of the other forests being cut dow... ... an entire group of innocent British School boys surviving a plane wreck on a tropical Paradise Island. Read how the boys descended and regressed in... ...mans… regardless if it is the overpopulation of cities, or as in the cases of tropical viruses, the overpopulation of the Amazon rainforest by humans...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...ch showed how accurate the earliest of paintings were in depicting nervous diseases. Classic art contains many ex- amples of the morbid and grue- some... ...e pic- torial atlas coulil bo published containing pictures of the various diseases apparent in classic art. Early artists used such great accu- racy ... ...ls of art. In Egytian art there are raaoy crude illustrations of ner- vous diseases, for the idea of fore- shortening was in those times un- known. In... ...n Assyrian, Roman and Grecian art there are very few ex- amples of jievous diseases, al- though iu the very earliest litera- ture we find descriptions... ...n Central America, along the west coast of South America, and in extensive tropical regions of the eastern hemisphere. Fossil re- mains of the flaming... ...then- set out to find another oolony and on the way was caught in a severe tropical storm, in which 6 inches of rain fell in three hours, and when he ... ...f its aquatic representatives. To the interested throng which enduretl the tropical climate of the tank-room there was furnished pniple evidence that ...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...e an account of their stewardship. For an unchecked fragmentary control of tropical and cha- otic regions, it substitutes the possibility of a general... ... at the present time, upon the Labour idea of an international control of “tropical” Africa. She was loud and derisive about the “ignorance” of Labour... ...ot a claim to be interested in things African, such as the pro- moter of a tropical railway or an oil speculator has; still it is a claim. And for the... ... already gone far. The whole negro population of Africa is now rotten with diseases intro- duced by Arabs and Europeans during the last century, and s... ...ommerce. Moreover, from Africa there is always something new in the way of tropical diseases, and presently Africa, if we let it continue to fester as... ...Moreover, from Africa there is always something new in the way of tropical diseases, and presently Africa, if we let it continue to fester as it feste... ...d no more than this—is what is intended by the “interna- tional control of tropical Africa.” I do not read that phrase as abrogating existing sovereig...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...e then per- ceived that to attempt the conversion of this host of isles of tropical climate through a resident English clergyman in each, would be imp... ...nds. The climate of New Zealand is far too chilly for these inhabitants of tropical regions, and it was abso- lutely necessary to return them to their... ... even in the summer months, the climate of New Zealand was trying to these tropical consti- tutions, and as it was just then determined that Norfolk I... ... Then followed some days of great enjoyment of the calm warmth of the semi-tropical winter, chiefly varied by catch- ing a young shark, and contrastin... ... trees, bananas, breadfruit trees, citrons, lemons, taro, &c., with bright tropical colouring thrown over all, lighting up the broad leaves and thick ... ...uced a low habit of body, that showed itself in all manner of scrofu- lous diseases, especially tumours, under which the sufferer wasted and died. Muc... ...ian statistics, and Lifu spears to a dissertation on the treatment of Lifu diseases? Great is the ingratitude of the houses of Feniton and Dawlish! ‘W...

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The Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

...es flew hither and thither. The ideal of preventive medicine was attained. Diseases had been stamped out. I saw no evidence of any contagious diseases... ...urn, even when it is focused by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives ri...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... toiled at this childish pleasure for hours in the strong sun, con- scious of my incurable ignorance; but too keenly pleased to be ashamed. Meanwhile,... ...side begin high up; higher yet, the more melancholy spectacle of empty paepaes. When a native habitation is deserted, the superstructure—pan- danus th... ...PTER V—DEPOPULATION OVER THE WHOLE EXTENT of the South Seas, from one tropic to another, we find traces of a bygone state of over-popu- lation, when t... ..., their families would be lamenting aloud upon the beach. It was from Hatiheu that I paid my first visit to a cannibal high place. The day was sultry ... ... man-hunt, it was their labour rather to block and deface than to improve them. In the crypt of the wood the air was clammy and hot and cold; overhead... ...uan displays, be- sides, a certain concern for health and the rudiments of a sanitary discipline. Public talk with these free-spoken people plays the ...

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