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    Advice for Friend Who Wants to Go to MIT for Engineering

    BTW engineers are not doing very well in the job market nowadays , lots of lay offs.
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    Animal Rights Dummies On Whales Wars

    Yeah , I guess this is where things get a little fuzzy ... you're right something needs to be done to protect the whales to some extent ... if the Japanese had it their way the whales would become extinct however it's not damning that they fish to some degree because , face it , animals get...
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    Animal Rights Dummies On Whales Wars

    I'm not supporting whaling here , my assertion here is simply that under no circumstances whatsoever does any particular nation , regardless of the " righteousness " of their beliefs or how deluded they are , have the right to meddle in an other nation's intrinsic affairs especially if the...
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    Animal Rights Dummies On Whales Wars

    The Japanese have been whaling for years so when these no-life nutjob animal rights activists insist that they abandon the tradition purely on the basis of a spontaneous whim of what is right and wrong on their part ... it seems infantile to the people of Japan ... these people on the Irwin are...
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    Lingusitics Reading Body Language: Help for a 15-Year-Old

    How many posts have we had here at PF with the same exact question and the same exact points ... man , if she were infatuated with you ... you would know it , the sole fact here is that YOU LIKE HER , so you should go after her - be a man , she probably does not like you all that much .
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    Microsoft's Natal Video: Video Games Getting Weird?

    who says that geeks will even buy this stuff? How are they going to chow on burgers and fries all the while swinging their imaginary Star Wars sword simultaneously? It's all a matter of how one prefers to control the characters ... the realism is in the graphics and if it is a matter of...
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    Chemistry 5 moles of Hydrogen Iodide dihydrate,

    Yes , an example of another hydrate is the hydrate of hydrogen phosphate , it's crystalline which is able to be isolated.
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    Rust in test-tubes of HCl FeO or Fe3O4?

    It has a lot to do with coordination inorganic chemistry which depends on quantum mechanical explanations which relate the iron to the " field " of ligands around it to explain the color , you may want to start off with Crystal Field Theory.
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    Enhancing Magnesium-Water Reaction with Pressure and Temperature

    In the case where gas is generated ... yes , there may be more instances , some physical processes such as boiling point depend on the pressure since the liquid needs to expand for cavities - or bubbles - to arise. We once had a massive hydrogen peroxide incident at the workplace within...
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    NY Times Slide Show of Reader's GM Cars

    So long GM and American cars in general ... my first love was the Ford Taurus ... got to ride in it while in a friends car at England at the age of seven ( at least I'm pretty certain that it was a Ford ) , the ride was seamless - the car did not make any noise - and I loved the power windows ...
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    Microsoft's Natal Video: Video Games Getting Weird?

    http://www.viddler.com/explore/Joystiq/videos/1118/ Wii is coming out with the motion plus and Microsoft has a new device which provides somekind of a virtual reality experience ... now I am not an avid gamer but the first impression that I am sensing from the Natal video is that it seems...
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    Beer vs. Soda: Which is Worse for Your Health?

    Beer - however it is definitely affecting my short term memory . BTW who in hell drinks a beer a day WTF ? , Trust me if you drink one beer you are definitely going to drink at least three ... at least . Soda made my teeth rot , I'm done with soda with the exception of Coke Zero.
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    Embarrassing Day: A Teacher's Tale

    Perhaps he got too excited over Jepoardy , he evidently got disoriented in some sense which involves confusion of the senses e.g. hearing etc ... To the OP - How was the climate in the classroom ?
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    Come on chinese restaurants, get with the program

    Chinese food - American Chinese food that is - is pretty much all the same stuff ... meat , vegetables lots and lots of vegetables , and corn starch for that thick sauce. There are two dishes however that separate itself from the pack - Kung Pao and Mongolian Beef. If they have thai dishes...
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