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Returning again to the War on Cancer, if there was a concerted, motivated, mission-oriented effort like the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb in 4 

At the same time, one would think that the U.S. government should take up the slack and become more involved in plant remedies, say, via the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. (An Office of Alternative Medicine, later called the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, was founded within the National Institutes of Health, but all seems quiet at the front lines.) Furthermore, as already indicated, musical chairs are being played by government and industry (and academia as weU, which depends on research grants). Call it collusion if you will. It is the downside of capitalism in action. The human element always will out. 

To further illustrate, the American Cancer Society, which generally seems to have its hand out, collecting about 400 million each year, has been accused of spending only about 30% of this cash hoard on cancer research, the rest going to salaries and nonresearch operations. No cures have been forthcoming, yet it maintains a blacklist called Unproven Methods of Cancer Management (Walters, 1993, p. 338, 6). The ACS manages to pay fat salaries, however, and has acquired an impressive investment folio, and in 1988 was said to have a fund balance of 426 million. 

An article by Ellen Stark in the November 1996 issue of Money provides a more favorable appraisal. The spending program of the ACS is listed as 70.2% of its 382 million income. This, however, does not cite research as such. And it may be noted that the ACS is involved in information dissemination, for example, the publication of journals and reports. Otherwise, it may be asked just what is to be included in programs Does this, for instance, include financial investments  

A featured article by Fortune executive editor Clifton Leaf titled Why We re Losing the War on Cancer appeared in the March 2(X)4 issue. This in turn caused some talk. Thus, in the June 2004 issue of the Townsend Letter for Doctors Patients, Ralph W. Moss reviewed Leaf s article in his monthly colunrn The War on Cancer. Moss restates some of the facts uncovered by Leaf, namely that no improvements have occurred in the survival rate, with no dramatic breakthroughs (such as occurred for Hodgkin s disease). This, despite spending an estimated 14.4 billion per year on cancer research. In fact, cancer research has become irrelevant and compartmentalized, and is fundamentally flawed by utilizing animal rather than human models. 

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Movement of information in a computer could be likened to a railway system. Carriers of information (bits or bytes) move together (like a train and wagons) from one location to another along electronic tracks. It is important that no two bits of information are mixed up, and therefore all the moves must be carefully synchronized with a clock. This situation resembles the movement of trains on a railway many trains use the same track but are not all in the same place at the same time. The railways run to a timetable. Similarly, information is moved around the computer under the control of the central processor unit (CPU). 

Shipment, Stora.ge, ndPrices. Methyl vinyl ether is available in tank cars or cylinders, while the other vinyl ethers are available in tank cars, tank wagons, or dmms. Mild steel, stainless steel, and phenoHc-coated steel are suitable for shipment and storage. If protected from air, moisture, and acidic contamination, vinyl ethers are stable for years. United States bulk prices in 1991 for methyl vinyl ether, ethyl vinyl ether, and butyl vinyl ether were listed as about 5.78/kg, 6.28/kg, and 6.08/kg, respectively. 

Fig. 13. Examples of pipe gas distributors (a) simple sparger, (b) details of the pipe, (c) wagon wheel, and (d) multilevel distributor.

Most cmde glycerol is shipped to refiners in standard tank cars or tank wagons. Imported cmde arrives in bulk, in vessels equipped with tanks for such shipment, or in dmms. 

Large volumes of monoalkylphenols are shipped in Hquid form by railcar, tank wagon, or export container. These shipping vessels must be stainless steel or phenoHc resin lined carbon steel. Eor smaller volumes, dmms and tote-tanks are used. Eor high freezing point alkylphenols, such as PTBP, the product is flaked and shipped in either bags or supersacs. Eor low freezing point products, such as -nonylphenol (PNP) (fp < 20° C), the product is shipped in dmms or tote-tanks. 

The cmde product formed from the alkylation of phenol with isoamylene contains principally 2-/ r2 -amylphenol, 4-/ r2 -amylphenol, and 2,4-di-/ r2 -amylphenol. 4-/ r2 Amylphenol is purified to its typical assay of 99+% by fractional distillation. 4-/ r2 -Amylphenol [80-46-6] is commercially available as a soHd, flaked material packaged ia paper or plastic bags (25 kg net weight) or as a molten material ia tank wagon or railcar quantities. 

Methylphenol. This phenol, commonly known as o-cresol, is produced synthetically by the gas phase alkylation of phenol with methanol using modified alumina catalysis or it may be recovered from naturally occurring petroleum streams and coal tars. Most is produced synthetically. Reaction of phenol with methanol using modified zeoHte catalysts is a concerted dehydration of the methanol and alkylation of the aromatic ring. 2-Methylphenol [95-48-7] is available in 55-gal dmms (208-L) and in bulk quantities in tank wagons and railcars. 

Di-/ f2 -amylphenol [25231-47-4] is available in 55-gal dmms (208-L) and bulk quantities in tank wagon and railcar shipments. 

Shipping of aluminum hydroxide powders is usually in paper bags of 10 to 25 kg size. Bulk shipment by road or rail wagons is also common. Aluminum hydroxides are not hygroscopic, but could be dusty and precautions against dust inhalation should be taken during handling. 

P-Pinene Manufacture. p-Pinene is obtained by fractionation of turpentine. The price of p-pinene, min 97%, was 5.28/kg in 1995 and that quahty is used mosdy in flavor and perfumery appUcations (45). Most of the P-pinene produced by the turpentine fractionators is used captively for producing fragrance chemicals or for P-pinene resins. P-Pinene is shipped in tank cars, tank wagons, deck tanks, and lined dmms. Prolonged storage requires conditions precluding autooxidation and polymerization. 

W. Downs, C. L. Wagoner, and R. C. Carr, Preparation and Burning of Solvent Refined Coal, presented at American Power Conference, Chicago, lU., Apr. 1969. 

Thermal power plant auxiliaries such as flow control of primary air fan, ID fan and forced-draught fans, boiler feed pumps circulating water pumps and condensate pumps, coal handling plant (e.g. ball mill, wagon tippler, and stacker reclaimer)... 

Do not roll or drop cylinders off the backs of wagons never lift cylinders by the cap. 

Table 15.7 Limits on quantities of explosives permitted for carriage by rail in containers and wagons, and separation distances...

Column 1 Type of explosive Column 2 Maximum net explosive content in tonnes in any group of adjacent containers or wagons Column 3 Minimum separation distance in metres between groups of containers or wagons... 

The scope includes carnage of dangerous substances by wagons, large containers, small containers and tanks. Cover the documentation requirements, the mode of transport, the information needs, loadmg/unloadmg, security, safety... 

Tote bin 36 Tank wagon 35 Railcar 34 Other (Describe)... 

Tank car Rail tanker or rail tank wagon... 

Babbitt (2%) (heavy duty bearing metal introduced by I. Babbitt in 1839). The two main compositions are 80-90% Sn, 0-5% Pb, 5% Cu and 75% Pb, 12% Sn, 13% Sb, 0-1% Cu. They have the characteristics of a hard compound embedded in a soft matrix and are used mainly in railway wagons, diesel locomotives, etc. 

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