A freezer is a common household appliance. It is an essential food storage technique in developed countries. Lower temperatures in a confined volume lowers the reproduction rate of bacteria, so the refrigerator reduces the rate of spoilage. ...
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Millions of Americans struggle daily with degenerative, painful and crippling knee or hip arthritis, or similar chronic conditions that can turn the simplest task into an ordeal. Fortunately, for those immobilized by their disease, hope ...
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The number of U.S. teens who wind up in the emergency room after taking the club drug Ecstasy has more than doubled in recent years, raising concerns that the hallucinogen is back in vogue, federal officials report. Emergency room visits ...
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Yauk's Specialty Meats of Windsor, CO, is expanding its recall announced Monday to include an undetermined amount of various meat and poultry products produced under insanitary conditions, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety ...
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Chevron filed a motion with a court in Ecuador Monday seeking to reverse a ruling requiring it to pay $9.5 billion for pollution in the country's Amazon basin region. The US oil giant, which claims it was the victim of a trial riddled ...
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More action is needed to reduce illness and death among the millions of Americans exposed to silica dust at work, according to a new report. It has long been known that silica -- a natural substance found in most rocks, sand and clay -- ...
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For me, the obsession began with a strand of love beads in eighth grade. I wore antique millefiore trade beads on a leather thong tied around my ankle for an entire year of high school. But the rosaries of my childhood may be the real ...
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With Christmas and New Years’ around the corner, you must be totally swamped with multiple invites to fabulous soirees and a tad jammed with what to wear. Look no further than FabAlley.com, the exclusive women’s only online ...
This automated bulk bag unloader system uses a fully integrated, 4-stage material conditioning sequence to prepare an extremely agglomerated, rock-like material for supply to a downstream liquification process. The dual, opposing bag hoist ...
Summit Midstream Partners, LLC ("Summit Investments"), the privately held company that owns and controls the general partner of Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP), announced today that it has executed a definitive agreement with ...
The executive director of Winter Cereals Canada says abundant snow cover in much of Saskatchewan and Manitoba should provide the protection necessary to allow cereal crops planted last fall to survive the winter. Figures released by ...
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People are taking more photographs than ever before, nearly 400 billion this year, yet sales of cameras are shrinking. Overall, global shipments of digital cameras have fallen 30 percent this year, according to Christopher Chute, research ...
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Carmakers today languish between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, they face a dizzying array of new technologies (Connected cars, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) to adopt, while they must comply with new regulations (emergency ...
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Ground-penetrating radar or GPR is a non-destructive testing method used to collect high resolution sub-surface images. The modern-day equipment finds application in a number of industries to collect sub-surface images without any harmful ...
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Avrupa Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Company has received favorable geochemical results from rock sampling at three different projects in southern Portugal. The projects include the Marateca and Sines licenses in the Iberian ...
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