Geographic nationalism

This visceral soulfulness derives from a particularly Russian conception of geographic nationalism, a connection made explicit by one of Nancy Ries s Muscovite informants in this statement about dusha (soul) Dusha is the ability to feel very deeply. So you feel deeply, first of all nature, the beauty of nature, the oneness, your own oneness with nature, and this whole feeling of being at one with the landscape means that you are part of the landscape, and that the landscape expresses the same kinds of feelings that you experience yourself (quoted in Ries 1997 30). 

In 1986, the National Geographic Society, in cooperation with the MoneU Center, conducted a worldwide survey of the sense of smell. Over 10 million survey forms were sent to readers of the Society s journal, of which close to 1.5 million forms were completed and returned. With responses to 40 demographic and 42 odor-related questions, the results constitute the largest set of data on human olfaction (4). 

Pubhc concerns about pesticides in the diet of infants and children resulted in an expert committee convened by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences which devoted four years to the review of all available data. A consensus report was issued in 1993 (80). A number of recommendations for further work to more precisely define what constitutes the diet of infants and children were made. No risk could be estimated. The residue data reviewed by the panel were mainly from monitoring studies conducted by the PDA using multiresidue methods to analyze fresh produce and market basket samples collected from various geographic areas (81,82). These and other rehable scientific studies have demonstrated that relatively few food samples contain detectable residues. Most residues are far below estabhshed tolerances which are set above the maximum residue found in treated raw agricultural... 

Attainment Area a geographic area in which levels of a criterion air pollutant meet the health-based National Ambient Air Quality Standard for that specific pollutant. 

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Leahy, P.P. Rosenshein, J.S. and Knopman, D.S. Implementation for The National Water-Quality Assessment ogram. U.S. Geographical Survey Open-File Report 90-174, U.S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, CO, 1990, 1-10. 

Rainey, F. 1946. Quinine hunters in Ecuador. National Geographic Magazine 89 341-363. Rajakaruna, N., Siddiqui, M. Y., Whitton, J., Bohm, B. A. and Glass, A. D. M. 2003. Differential responses to Na+/K+ and Ca2+/Mg2+ in two edaphic races of Lasthenia californica (Asteraceae) complex A case for parallel evolution of physiological traits. New Phytol. 

This monitoring framework should be apphed across broad geographic regions. This book recommends a national or (preferably) continental scale of assessment. The data collected in the United States shonld also be comparable, to the extent feasible and appropriate, with other North American and global mercury monitoring efforts, particularly monitoring of atmospheric transport and deposition. 

Figure 7 Illustration of air sampling station locations ( ) in a regional study. Map created with TOPO 2001 National Geographic Holdings...

D.A. Goolsby, E.M. Thuman, M.L. Pommes, and WA. Battaghn, Temporal and geographic distribution of herbicides in precipitation in the Midwest and Northeast United States, 1990-1991, in Proceedings of the Fourth National Pesticide Conference, Richmond, VA, November 1-3, 1993, pp. 20-22(1994). 

Roach, John. Ants use acid to make gardens in Amazon, study says, National Geographic Web site. Available online. URL http //news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0921 050921 amazon ant.html. Accessed on March 19, 2008. 

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