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• Sugar beet
  .... The U.S. harvested 1,004,600 acres (4&nbsp;065&nbsp;km²) of sugarbeets in 2008 alone.<ref>[http://www.nass.usda.gov/QuickStats/index2.jsp NASS - Stat ...ber 21, 2009, a federal court ruled that the USDA had violated federal law in deregulating Roundup Ready sugar beets without adequately evaluating the en
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• Toxicodendron
  ...plasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2009-11-23 |accessdate=2010-02-12}}</ref> '''''Toxicodendron''''' is a genus of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[sumac]] family, [[Anacardiaceae]]. It contains [[Woody plant|woody]]
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• Cicuta
  ...t and marshy areas. These plants bear a close resemblance to other members in the family Apiaceae and may be confused with a number of other edible and p ...t=Close up of Cicuta douglasii flowers. Small and white, they are arranged in an umbrella shape |left|''[[Cicuta douglasii]]'', showing distinctive umbre
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• Zantedeschia
  ...d as "cala lily". It has often been used in many paintings, and is visible in many of [[Diego Rivera|Diego Rivera's]] works of art (see The Flower Vendor ...nd variable species, growing from South Africa north to [[Kenya]], varying in shades of white to cream and pink to orange-shades. ''Z. elliotiana'' is kn
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• Nerium oleander
  |image_caption = ''Nerium oleander'' in flower ...plasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=1998-03-09 |accessdate=2010-06-26}}</ref>
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• Ranunculus occidentalis
  | image_caption = ''R. occidentalis'' in [[Anacortes, Washington]] ...[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/interchange/I_treat_indexes.html University of California Berkley Jepson Treaments] |accessdate=2009-06-05}}</ref>
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• Stinging nettle
  ...an adjacent laterals. It bears small greenish or brownish numerous flowers in dense axillary inflorescences. The leaves and stems are very hairy with no *''U. dioica'' subsp. ''afghanica''. Southwestern and central Asia. (Gazaneh in Iran)
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• Propædia
  ...pread criticism, the ''Britannica'' restored the Index as a two-volume set in 1985. The core of the ''Propædia'' is its '''Outline of Knowledge''', whi ...ch major discipline, a "roadmap" for a student who wishes to learn a field in its entirety. Finally, the ''Propædia'' serves as an expanded Table of Co
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• Gunpowder
  ...b|right|Black powder for [[muzzleloader|muzzleloading]] rifles and pistols in FFFG granulation size. [[Quarter (United States coin)|Coin]] (diameter 24 m ...ern firearms do not use the traditional gunpowder (black powder) described in this article, but instead use [[smokeless powder]]. [[Antique]] firearms or
  51 KB (7,447 words) - 09:15, 20 September 2010
• Strobilanthes callosus
  ...ORT UC-NRLF [[ANKOLA]] HIGH FOREST BLOCKS XXIV & XXV"/>, sometimes spelled in English as '''Karvy'''<ref name="Nature lovers on the Karvy trail; Times of ...2000"/>. The genus has around 250 species, of which at least 46 are found in India. Most of these species show an unusual flowering behaviour, varying f
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• Hemp
  In modern times, hemp has been used for industrial purposes including paper, [ title=Industrial Hemp Production in Alberta |
  42 KB (6,310 words) - 21:11, 21 September 2010
• Dry stone
  ...humb|250px|right|[[Inca architecture|Inca wall]] of dry stone construction in [[Cusco]], [[Peru]]]] ...the wall is held up by the interlocking of the stones. Such walls are used in building construction, as field boundaries, and on steep slopes as retainin
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• SENSOR-Pesticides
  ...ort to all participating states. It also provides funding to some states, in conjunction with the [[US Environmental Protection Agency]] (US EPA). ...roposed the SENSOR program to track pesticide poisonings. Because workers in many industries are at risk for pesticide exposure, and public concern exis
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• Emergency management
  ...anizational level after the current level's resources have been exhausted. In the private sector, emergency management is sometimes referred to as [[busi ...Reduction|disaster risk reduction]], particularly for emergency management in a development management context. This focuses on the mitigation and prepar
  50 KB (7,069 words) - 20:33, 20 September 2010
• Arsenic
  <!-- THIS ARTICLE WAS STARTED AND IS KEPT IN BRITISH SPELLING --> ...3.pub2}}</ref> The occurrence of arsenic in drinking water is problematic in some parts of the world.
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• Work–life balance (United States)
  ...country’s states. Only men in exceptionally hazardous jobs were covered in early legislation and most had no limit to the number of hours their employ Ten-hour workdays were accepted in the [[agriculture]] industry during certain seasons and six-day workweeks were not unheard of
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• Cadmium
  ...Hermann, both in Germany, as an impurity in [[zinc carbonate]]<ref>Cadmium in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1 ...declines have been due to competing technologies, cadmium’s [[toxicity]] in certain forms and concentration and resulting regulations <ref name="Refere
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• Wildfire
  {{Redirect|Crown Fire|the 2010 wildfire in Southern California|2010 California wildfires}} ...umb|right|upright=2|alt=A daytime fire engulfing large trees|A wildfire in California, USA on 5 September 2008]]
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• Lead poisoning
  ...Symptoms include abdominal pain, headache, [[anemia]], irritability, and in severe cases [[seizure]]s, [[coma]], and [[death]]. ...e policies (e.g. laws that ban lead in products or reduce allowable levels in water or soil).
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• Mining
  ...ut| the extraction of geological materials from the Earth|the municipality in [[Austria]]|Mining, Austria|the siege tactic|Mining (military)|name of the ...cumference and second deepest [[open-pit mining|open pit]] [[copper]] mine in the world.]]
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