Living on the edge

Wanderers may be self-made men or women of business, or hippies living on the edge of society. They define themselves in direct opposition to a conformist norm. 

Intensity is the key to Scorpio. Ruled by Pluto, the (dwarf) planet of transformation, you re a compelling personality — and a creature of extremes. Emotionally or otherwise, in fact or in fancy, you live on the edge. 

Board certified in family practice and environmental medicine, Erica Elliott, M.D., has a private practice and lives in an adobe-style cobousing community surrounded by cacti, footpaths, and creative energy on the edge of Santa Fe. 

For six months I worked in Angola to help the UN supervise elections. While I was there I lived in a tent on a mountain, just on the edge of a rain forest, and my heath improved dramatically. But as soon as I went back to work in Montreal, my health deteriorated... 

Suppose your community has decided to build a new hazardous waste incinerator. Two sites are available. One is located at the edge of a golf course, near a development consisting of homes that cost 1 million or more. The other is located on the edge of the river In a "rundown" part of town. Property in this area is relatively inexpensive, and most of the people who live here are poor and members of minorities who do not own their own homes. Which site will you select for the new incinerator ... 

Medical analysis of a community living in Jozini, a South African village located on the edge of major cotton production area, found traces of deltamethrin in human breast mil . ... 

Vertebrates who live along the oceans shores include several species of fish, birds, and mammals and one species of reptiles. The only shore reptile is the marine iguana, a lizard found only on the Galapagos Islands. Unlike terrestrial iguanas, this species is adapted to life on the edge of the sea where it feeds on intertidal algae. To dine, the lizard must dive into cold, wave-tossed ocean water and scrape the microscopic plants from rocks. Intertidal life is rough for this reptile, but its adaptations have enabled it to be successful in an environment in which no other reptile can survive. 

We were both an hour or so into our respective trips. Peter was sitting on the living room couch deeply engrossed with the cup, but obviously OKand not needing any company at the moment. I retired to the bedroom at the other end of the house,and sat on the edge of the bed gazing out the window at the moonlight on the snow. It was one of... 

Element 114 — (Ununquadium) Symbol Uuq. Element 114 is the first new element to be discovered since 1996. This element was found by a Russian-American team, including Livermore researchers, by bombarding a sheet of plutonium with a rare form of calcium hoping to make the atoms stick together in a new element. Radiation showed that the new element broke into smaller pieces. Data of radiation collected at the Russian Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in November and December 1998 were analyzed in January 1999. It was found that some of the heavy atoms created when 114 decayed lived up to 30 seconds, which was longer than ever seen before for such a heavy element. This isotope decayed into a previously unknown isotope of Element 112, which itself lasted 15 minutes. That isotope, in turn, decayed to a previously undiscovered isotope of Element 108, which survived 17 minutes. Isotopes of these and those with longer life-times have been predicted for some time by theorists. It appears that these isotopes are on the edge of the island of stability, and that some... 

Soon after the accident, the highly respected journal Nature (Anonymous, 1984b) commented, The angui.sh vividly carried round the world by the television cameras seems not to have matured into anger, even hysteria, there would have been had the accident occurred on the edge of a European city — or in Connecticut [headquarters of Union Carbide]. Could this be the reason why the concern of the scientific community in the developed countries was short-lived It is safe to say that the full dimension of the toxicity of a chemical (and also its therapeutic potential) cannot be predicted from it.s chemical structure but can be approximated by careful and painstaking. studies. Such an enquiry into MIC would be well deserved not because it will disclose an astounding... 

Comment. Ancient free-living unicellular hfe forms probably could not alter their environment and had to adapt themselves to life on the edges. However, the unicellular eukaryotic parasites have means to render their multicellular hosts tolerant, or even friendly (supportive) toward their co-existence. In that, these parasites and cancer cells act alike. 

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