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A new British detective series leads these TV shows that are new to DVD.
Case Histories" (Acorn, 2011, two discs, $39.99). Another hard- bitten mystery-thriller series from Great Britain, but which also has a lighter side and a few unexpected twists. Jason Isaacs (best known as Lucius Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" films) stars as Jackson Brodie, a beaten-down Scottish private detective who was previously a soldier and police officer.
..."Amazonia: Healing With Sacred Plants" (True Mind, 2011, $19.98). Medical anthropologist... shares healing plants from the Amazon rainforest in this documentary. Extras: widescreen. "The Wild...
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...With a staggering abundance of birds, plants, animals, and foliage, with streams and tributarie... of pure crude oil into Ecuador's rainforest and waterways. In 2009, Amazon Rights Watch report...A Harvard medical team and Ecuadorian health authorities have descri...
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... by drinking hoasca, a tea brewed from plants unique to the Amazon Rainforest that contains DMT,... for abuse," "no currently accepted medical use," and "a lack of accepted safety for use . . ....
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...Biodiesel Plants 4. Water Quantity 5. Drinking Water. X. Public Par...For example, the conversion of rainforest to agriculture results in a much larger GHG releas... to more asthma attacks that require medical attention and/or the use of additional medication....
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[...] over one hundred pharmaceutical companies as well as the United States government are funding projects to study indigenous plant knowledge and native healers' practices in the use of natural products .However, as a result of deforestation and development, many of these species could be destroyed before ever having been examined for their curative properties. According to the U.S. Department of State, "between May 2000 and August 2006 alone, Brazil lost nearly 150,000 square kilometers of pristine forest - an area larger than Greece - and since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed.
...'s largest and most diverse collection of plants and animals, with an astounding one out of every t... consistently utilized these species for medical purposes, but as deforestation endangers their env...
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Introduction - II. Theoretical and practical cases for the enactment of laws to protect indigenous intellectual property - A. The Theories Underlying Current Patent Law - B. The Modern Patent Law Theories as a Basis for Indigenous IP Law - III. The united states’ approaches to protecting indigenous intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples - A. Current U.S. Patent Law Cannot Protect Indigenous Intellectual Property - B. Bioprospecting Approaches Protecting Indigenous Intellectual Property in the United States - C. Judicial Approach to Protecting Indigenous Property in the United States - IV. The laws protecting indigenous intellectual property rights in other countries - V. The articles of the u.n. declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples - VI. Enactment of american i...
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", originally self-published by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus in 2004, argues that environmentalism is unable to deal with climate change and should "die" so that a new paradigm can emerge that can. The essay draws on history, political philosophy, and interviews with over two dozen leaders of large and small environmental organizations and foundations, including the Sierra Club, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Shellenberger and Nordhaus suggest that the 20 year failure to reduce emissions is due in part to the unwillingness of environmental leaders to expand their conception of 'the environment' to include humans and economic development. Since this essay was published Shellenberger and Nordhaus authored Break Th...
... do more to phase out dirty old coal power plants. Gore shot back, "Losing on impractical proposals ... the burden largely on employers, retiree medical costs are one reason Toyota's $10.2 billion profit... from the Pew Charitable Trusts to Rainforest Action Network agrees on is the size of the proble...
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... the concrete walls of the building, so the plants couldn't break it down into carbon and free oxygen... countries (including substandard medical care, clean water access, and sanitation) allows o...In the Star Mountains rainforest of Papua New Guinea (PNG), for instance, the Ok Te...
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...The 11-night trip travels into the rainforest in the Republic of Congo to see western lowland go... Announces More Sales to Nuclear Power Plants in Japan. Implant Sciences Corporation, a high tec..., Taj Group of Hotels, hospitals offering medical tourism products as well as state tourism departme...
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Though they cannot supplant nor replace other methodologies, films can possibly raise new questions, provide different perspectives, and reveal unique ways of knowing about seminal subject, at least by comparison to the standard fare of academic analysis. Each one, "ethics" and "leadership," draw upon substantially different intellectual literatures, scholarly methodologies, traditional assumptions, and disciplinary perspectives. Film, often far better than social science literature, may provide a more "holistic account" of not only individual lives, but entire situations where ethical leadership is practiced. Finally, ethical leadership includes the use of symbols. Symbols abound throughout, thus giving the story meaning, depth, and power beyond simply "a typical feel-good" movie. List...
... wanting to protect the Brazilian rainforest and maintain the region's economic viability. Deve... of building and maintaining nuclear power plants. A reporter who emerges as the leader; Kimberly We...An unexpected medical emergency happens when Mikey collapses at a Little...