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My Family consisting of Pearl Harbor survivors - Chi Chi Jima - Navy Life

Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rotation. The sun, moon and planets are carried on different revolving spheres. The spheres and celestial bodies are composed of an everlasting fifth element, which has none of the ordinary contrary properties like heat and cold which could destroy it, but only the facility for uniform rota...

The United States must operate successfully in space to help assure its security and economic well being. The Department of the Navy is a major user of space capabilities, although those capabilities are now primarily provided by DOD, the Air Force, and NOAA. Following a DOD assessment of national space security management in 2001, the Navy commissioned a Panel to Review Space to assess Navy space policy and strategy. As an extension of that r...

Misuse of handguns is a significant factor in deaths, morbidity, and crime in the United States. One approach to reducing certain types of handgun misuse is to create a user-authorized handgun (UAHG), a firearm that can be operated only by an authorized user(s). Technological Options for User-Authorized Handguns clarifies the technical challenges of developing a reliable UAHG. This report determines the requirements and specifications of UAHGs...

A rising median age at which PhD's receive their first research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is among the factors forcing academic biomedical researchers to spend longer periods of time before they can set their own research directions and establish there independence. The fear that promising prospective scientists will choose other career paths has raised concerns about the future of biomedical research in the United Sta...

Texte von Joan Montserrat/Foto(s) von Jaume Serrat, Beni Trutmann, Melba Levick

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A hilarious and original debut novel that skewers our craze for celebrity.

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Fiction. Translated from the Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida. INNER CHINA, A TALE is the first of Eva Sjodin's books to betranslated into English. It is the poetic narrative of a young girlnavigating a tenuous yet vibrant landscape of hardship and neglect, resilience and self-reliance. "By turns catastrophic and luminous, INNER CHINA, in Jennifer Hayashida's translation, is unflincing in itsgaze, economical in its language, and fearless as it en...

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From the author of the internationally acclaimed Latitudes of Melt comes the story of Moranna MacKenzie, a woman who lives alone in a Cape Breton farmhouse, fighting the symptoms of mental illness and still grieving the loss of her two daughters, who were taken from her over thirty years previously. Moranna is known in the community as "Mad Mory", she plays complicated concerti on a piano board, sings -- she has perfect pitch -- bakes bread an...

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Includes Radiographic Diagnostic Indicators (RDIs), a versatile set of potential radiographic observations that, when used in combination, can often lead to a radiographic diagnosis.Features normal radiographs pictured near abnormal images for comparison.Provides telescopic images that provide both orientation and close-up views to help readers identify key points of the radiograph.Offers diagnosis at a glance with concise one or two word diag...

Although the immense process of economic and social transformation currently underway in China and Vietnam is well known, less attention has been devoted to the process of Chinese and Vietnamese legal change.

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