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John F. Ross in a recent article states that the public tends to overestimate the probability of splashy and dreadful deaths and underestimates common but far more deadly risks. [22] The Smithsonian article says that individuals tend to overestimate the risk of death by tornado, but underestimate the much more widespread probably of stroke and... 

Dr Ames is quoted in a 1995 Smithsonian article and argues Every plant has 40 to 50 pesticides it makes to kill offpredators and fungi. They couldn t survive if they were not filled with toxic chemicals. They don t have teeth and claws, and they can t run away. So throughout evolution they ve been making newer and nastier pesticides. They re better chemists than Dow and Monsanto [26]. 

Vol. 1 is a reprint of the author s A select bibliography of chemistry, 1492-1897. First supplement, published by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1899 as v. 39, article 7 of the Smithsonian miscellaneous collections and also numbered "1170."... 

Owen Gingerich is Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The author of more than 400 articles and reviews, he has also written The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History and The Eye of Heaven Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler. 

E Royte, Smithsonian Magazine, August, 2006 for entire article go to www.Smithsonian. com and search for "poly (lactic acid)."... 

William Severini Kowinski is a writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He has published articles in a number of magazines, such as The Smithsonian, Esquire, New Times, and The New York Times Magazine. This selection is taken from his book-length study, The Mailing of America An Inside Look at the Great Consumer Paradise (1985), which investigates the effects of shopping malls on the lives of modern Americans. 

The Smithsonian Institution Archives retain Robert s papers (1960-1982) and related materials (to 1984) in a collection (Record Unit 7316) described by Rebecca V. Schoemaker (see http llwww.si.edularchivesljaru73l6.htm). An article on the aftermath of Air Florida Flight 90 appeared (The New York Times Magazine, August 4, 2002, pp. 36-41). I am grateful for the details about Robert s life that it provides. 

Experience with the leftover gas shells found on the World War I European battlelields conclusively demonstrates that the gas in these shells remains viable and tiiat the shells wiU corrode through releasing the gas. A very definitive article on the hazards of remaining World War I gas munitions is The Soldiers Moved On. The War Moved On. The Bombs Stayed. by Donovan Webster, from the Smithsonian Magazine (1994). The article consists of interviews with the French demineurs, who find and destroy the live munitions on the European battlefields. Many demineurs have been hurt or killed by gas shells. 

Bird, Kai, and Martin J. Sberwin. Bnilding die Bomb. Smithsonian 36 (August 2005) 88-96. Tbis article is adapted from die book by these authors on the history of the atomic bomb American Prometheus. New York Allred A Knopf, 2005. 

Leo H. Baekeland, Applied Chemistry, MCE 13 (October 1, 1915) 677 Leo H. Baekeland diary, October 24, 1914, Diary No. 15, box 3, Series 8, Baekeland papers. Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D C. The final quotation comes from the article. 

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