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Sweating the small stuff: extracting freshwater from the salty oceans is an ancient technique that is gaining momentum in a high-tech way

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The cost of water desalination has dropped, while demand for water supply has been driven up by industrial and population growth, causing the United States to invest more seriously in saline conversion plants. Such facilities are common in nations where natural supplies of fresh water are scarce. Analysis of the current state of desalination research is detailed.

Cover Story, Environmental aspects, Water-supply, Water supply, Desalination, Saline water conversion, Saline water conversion plants, Desalination plants, Logistics, Distillation

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Reactive reasoning

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Inflammation, a key mediator in atheroslerosis, damages the lining of the artery walls and contributes to the formation and rupture of fatty plaques. An attempt is made to determine the relation between an inflammation compound called C-reactive protein (CRP) and heart disease and it is found that reductions in CRP had a beneficial effect independent of lowering LDL, suggesting that statins lessen both cholesterol and CRP.

Risk factors, C-reactive protein, Atherosclerosis, Statins

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A culture of death

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Russel Ogden, a criminology graduate student examines the means and methods of assisted suicide which means helping a person take his own life and euthanasia which means mercifully ending someone's life as painlessly as possible in AIDS patients. Suffocation devices such as 'debreather', 'exit bag', 'Nembutal', a liquid barbiturate are some of the methods recommended.

Health aspects, College graduates, AIDS (Disease), Death of, Ogden, Russel

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