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The recycling of municipal solid waste
The recycling of municipal solid waste is widely seen as an environmentally preferable alternative to the prevailing practices of incineration and of dumping in landfills. Recycling is profitable, as the recycling programs already in operation demonstrate. A state legislator proposes that communitie...
- by fighting_cax
Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:24 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: The recycling of municipal solid waste
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3820
Purebred Cows
Purebred cows native to Mongolia produce, on aver- age, 400 liters of milk per year; if Mongolian cattle are crossbred with European breeds, the crossbred cows can produce, on average, 2,700 liters per year. An international agency plans to increase the profita- bility of Mongolia’s dairy sector by ...
- by fighting_cax
Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:38 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Purebred Cows
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3189
ground-breaking work of Barbara McClintock
As a result of the ground-breaking work of Barbara McClintock, many scientists now believe that all of the information encoded in 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely three percent of the cell’s DNA. (A) 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found...
- by fighting_cax
Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:06 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: ground-breaking work of Barbara McClintock
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6197
Quasars
Quasars are so distant that their light has taken billions of years to reach the Earth; consequently we see them as they were during the formation of the universe. A. we see them as they were during B. we see them as they had been during C. we see them as if during D. they appear to us as they did i...
- by fighting_cax
Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:05 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Quasars
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1355
Re: CO2
18. Many environmentalists believe that the widespread planting of trees, along with the conservation of existing forests, would be one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways to begin to halt or even to reverse the buildup of carbon dioxide in the air. (A) one of the surest, easiest, and ...
- by fighting_cax
Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:18 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: CO2
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5372
Leveraged Buyout
In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the company’s earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions. (A) by using the company’s earnings and to profit (B) by using the companies’ earnings...
- by fighting_cax
Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:35 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Leveraged Buyout
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3353
I would agree to this statement. Any more explanations why choice A cannot be correct?awesomeusername wrote:Right, but if I own the tires, then they are MY tires. I don't have to physically use the tires for mobility for them to be considered MY tires.
- by fighting_cax
Tue Jun 09, 2009 2:37 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: car owner
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8058
If we get down to the essence of the sentence, we can see that: because of the new techniques in thermal-scanning photography --> possible to study the effects of calefaction (in greater detail than ever before) Because we know that this technique (that was discovered in the past) has made it possib...
- by fighting_cax
Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:27 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC - 1000 - #531
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7050
Rhodopsin
Light is registered in the retina when photos hit molecules of the pigment rhodopsin and change the molecules' shape. Even when they have not been struck by photos of light, rhodopsin molecules sometimes change shape because of normal molecular motion, thereby introducing error into the visual syste...
- by fighting_cax
Sat May 23, 2009 12:59 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Rhodopsin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1598
Hi Guys, Thanks for the replies. Appreciate them. I noticed that both of you are using a similar approach -- the "negation" method in breaking down this passage. I still don't understand, however, how you were able to arrive at this answer. Why is it important that the argument crumbles if...
- by fighting_cax
Sun May 17, 2009 2:58 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Ceramic Vase
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3153
(B) The only part of a potato plant that a nematode eats is the roots Does this support the conclusion?? Is it supporting the fact that chemicals caused some effect?? NO!! If the only part that the nematodes eat are the plant's roots, then spreading the chemical when no potatoes are plants (hence n...
- by fighting_cax
Sun May 17, 2009 2:44 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Potato Cyst Namatodes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4612
Explosion
Any serious policy discussion about acceptable levels of risk in connection with explosions is not well served if the participants fail to use the word "explosion" and use the phrase "energetic disassembly" instead. In fact, the word "explosion" elicits desirable reacti...
- by fighting_cax
Sat May 16, 2009 1:12 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Explosion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1302
Potato Cyst Namatodes
Potato cyst nematodes are a pest of potato crops. The nematodes can lie dormant for several years in their cysts, which are protective capsules, and do not emerge except in the presence of chemicals emitted by potato roots. A company that has identified the relevant chemicals in planning to market t...
- by fighting_cax
Sat May 16, 2009 1:07 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Potato Cyst Namatodes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4612
A shud be the correct answer. (E) Before embarking on any major construction project, the government is required by law to establish beyond any reasonable doubt that there are no alternatives that are more cost-effective. The government has a valid reason as the buildings are not suitable for court...
- by fighting_cax
Sat May 16, 2009 1:02 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Construction
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4425
Ceramic Vase
Samples from a ceramic vase found at a tomb in Sicily prove that the vase was manufactured in Greece. Since the occupant of the tomb died during the reign of a Sicilian ruler who lived 2,700 years ago, the location of the vase indicates that there was trade between Sicily and Greece 2,700 years ago....
- by fighting_cax
Sat May 16, 2009 12:47 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Ceramic Vase
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3153