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1U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — Abbreviation ICE ICE is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security …
2Primitive Methodism — methodismPrimitive Methodism was a major movement in English Methodism from about 1810 until the Methodist Union in 1932. The Primitive Methodist Church still exists in the United States. OriginsPrimitive Methodism was born in Staffordshire in… …
3Harold Gilliam — is a San Francisco based writer, newspaperman and environmentalist, graduate of UC Berkeley, author of many books and former columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner . The Harold Gilliam Award for Excellence in Environmental… …
4HIV/AIDS in Lesotho — PrevalenceAIDS constitutes an alarming threat to Lesotho and its people, and HIV/AIDS is not the only barrier to Lesotho’s economic development. Land degradation, capacity depletion, and economic decline are major obstacles to short and long term …
5thunder — I. n. 1. Reverberating report (of a discharge of atmospheric electricity). 2. Loud noise, roar, rumbling, boom, detonation. 3. Alarming threat, startling denunciation, fulmination. II. v. n. 1. Sound, rattle, roar, roll, boom. 2. Make a loud… …
6Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …
7Health and Disease — ▪ 2009 Introduction Food and Drug Safety. In 2008 the contamination of infant formula and related dairy products with melamine in China led to widespread health problems in children, including urinary problems and possible renal tube… …
8Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
9Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
10environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… …
