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As they observed Luo Ji’s condition, one expert from the AMMS took Zhang Xiang and Kent outside and described the situation to them. “This flu came to our attention a while ago. We felt that its origin and characteristics were highly abnormal, and it’s clear now that it’s a genetic weapon, a genetic guided missile.” “A guided missile?” “It’s a gene
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The human body is composed of organic matter; it is for this reason that exposure to chlorine gas is so hazardous for humans. The discussion about ‘1918 Flu’ in chapter four referred to the health damage caused by the deployment of chlorine gas as a chemical weapon on the battlefields during WWI. Joe Thornton aptly refers to chlorine in its element
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Othman was the director of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission.
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John Todd, the venerable systems ecologist best known for his work on environmental remediation. In 1969 Todd founded the New Alchemy Institute and began to design microecosystems, self-contained plant communities inside greenhouses. Using them as small-scale prototypes for larger real-world projects, he revolutionized how we approach solving envir
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En 2013, un petit cours d'eau parallèle à la rivière Orbiel, change de couleur. Oui, c'est une toute petite rivière qui passe au ronge rouille, ce qui inquiète évidemment tous les habitants qui demandent des
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before the end of the century Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), a Swedish chemist and an early Nobelian, published the first calculations of increased global surface temperature arising from the eventual doubling of preindustrial atmospheric CO2.[43] His paper also noted that global warming will be felt least in the tropics and most felt in the polar r
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