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State Department Notes on China

U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People History Government Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations Defense U.S.-China Relations PEOPLEThe largest ethnic group is the Han…

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Genetically Engineered Foods

"Frankenfoods" or Brave New World? The genetically engineered foods question by Kim Lundgren Skeptics claim that the so-called "Frankenstein foods" pose an insidious threat to the…

SETI at Home

SETI@home Search for extraterrestrials with your desktop computer by Gerry Brown Despite all the reports of the rapidly shrinking globe—with modern technology like the Internet, wireless…

Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta

(Encyclopedia) Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta, 1908–95, Swedish physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Uppsala, 1934. He was a lecturer at Uppsala from 1934 to 1937 and a researcher at the Nobel Institute of Physics…

Drexel University

(Encyclopedia) Drexel University, at Philadelphia; coeducational; founded 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, opened 1892, chartered 1894 as Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. It was renamed…

Guillaume, Charles Édouard

(Encyclopedia) Guillaume, Charles ÉdouardGuillaume, Charles Édouardshärl ādwärˈ gēyōmˈ [key], 1861–1938, Swiss physicist and metrologist, Ph.D. Zürich Polytechnic (now the Federal Institute of…