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The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill's government response and environmental impact

On April 20, 2010, catastrophe struck the Gulf of Mexico with the explosion and eventual sinking of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig which resulted in the death of 11 crew members and left many others injured.

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Integration of traditional healing methods in medical institutions

The question of whether or not to allow -- or to explicitly forbid -- traditional and folk healing methods in a medical establishment is fraught with complications. First, unproven methods can be a distraction from treatments known to work, reducing the overall quality of healthcare.

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Risk management strategies and mitigation in manager portfolios

Essentially, this is about the paradigm of risk management, and ways to mitigate such within a template of managerial personal portfolio; another term is, of course, portfolio management.

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How the United States and Iran demonize each other

The relationship between the United States and Iran is possibly at its worst in decades. Official diplomatic connections are essentially none existent and there is great hesitancy to have this altered.

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Oral contraceptives and breast cancer risk in women

In a 2002 The New England Journal of Medicine article entitled "Oral contraceptives and the risk of breast cancer," Marchbanks, McDonald, Wilson, Folger, Mandel, Daling, Bernstein, Malone., Ursin, Strom, Norman, and Weiss (2002) reveal that it is not clear whether the use of oral contraceptives…

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Print media's role in tobacco control policy and public health in Mumbai

The tobacco industry represents one of India's greatest dilemmas. Simultaneously a major domestic commodity and a threat to the health and well-being of India's general population, tobacco use has largely penetrated Indian culture in spite of the development of global and domestic policies aimed at…

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Government policies and the obesity epidemic in America

In the last several decades the obesity crisis has reached epidemic proportions. Evidence of this can be seen by looking no further than a recent study conducted by the Trust for America's Health, which found that 119 million adults or 65% of the U.S. adult population is obese.

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Nielsen ratings and television viewership measurement methods

Television ratings are most frequently based on what are called Nielsen Ratings, as this is the major corporate source for accumulating data on television program viewing.

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The blurring of reality and fiction in television crime drama

Television crime dram has been one of the most fundamentally altered genres of the era of television.

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Saltwater intrusion in coastal freshwater aquifers: causes and mitigation

Approximately two thirds of the world's population lives within 400 km of an ocean shoreline. The majority of these coastal regions depend on groundwater as their main source of fresh water.

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