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• Wildfire suppression
  ...of this situation is reinforced with a list of 10 ''fire orders'' and 18 ''watch out situations'' for firefighters to be aware of, which warn of potentially ...d with overall command of an incident. In the U.S., the [[Incident Command System]] designates this as being the first on scene providing he has sufficient t
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• Health Level 7
  HL7 was founded in 1987 to produce a standard for [[hospital information system]]s. HL7, Inc. is a [[standards organization]] that was accredited in 1994 b ...guage, structure and data types required for seamless integration from one system to another.<ref>http://www.chcf.org/documents/CCDPProjectOverview.pdf</ref>
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• Mining accident
  ...er than the reward for handling it well, as a disaster on a bureaucrat’s watch is almost surely a blot on his career, while successfully concealing it mea
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• List of cutaneous conditions
  ...le]] and [[glands]].<ref name="Lookingbill" /> The major function of this system is as a barrier against the external environment.<ref name="pmid19221876">{ Conditions of the human integumentary system constitute a broad spectrum of diseases, also known as [[dermatoses]], as w
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• List of eponymous laws
  ...law]] — Used to find out the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only a part of it is improved. Named after [[Gene Amdahl]] (born 1922) ...achim Bremermann]], is the maximum computational speed of a self-contained system in the material universe.
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• Cannabis (drug)
  ...o Shakespeare's genius | date=2001-03-01 | publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System]] | url =http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/UK/03/01/shakespeare.cann ...ly ME, Benowitz NL | title = Vaporization as a Smokeless Cannabis Delivery System: A Pilot Study. | journal = [[Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics]] | vo
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• Salvia divinorum
  ...gested, as salvinorin A is effectively deactivated by the gastrointestinal system.<ref>[[#refSiebert1994|Siebert 1994]].</ref> Therefore, in what's understoo ...ions about the deleterious affects of salvia, they should go on YouTube to watch the videos. A reporter questioned Sak as to whether he had ever seen a "[[G
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• George Metesky
  ...t used [[timer]]s constructed from flashlight batteries and cheap [[pocket watch]]es. Investigators at bomb sites learned to look for a wool sock – Metes ...it using a plunger. Among the porcelain fragments, investigators found a watch frame and a wool sock.<ref name= "NYT_1956-02-22"> {{cite news
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• Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
  Reporter Andrew West of [[KTLK (AM)|KRKD]], a [[Mutual Broadcasting System]] radio affiliate in [[Los Angeles]], captured on audio tape the sounds of ...n Campbell may, in fact, have been Michael D. Roman, a now-deceased Bulova Watch Company employee, who was at the Ambassador Hotel for a company convention.
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• Terrorism insurance
  ...law extends the temporary federal Program that provides for a transparent system of shared public and private compensation for insured losses resulting from * [http://www.atypon-link.com/AEAP/doi/pdf/10.1257/0895330042632717 Policy Watch: Challenges for Terorrism Risk Insurance in the United States] (Wharton's a
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• Counter-terrorism
  ...roup, a very difficult challenge for [[HUMINT]] because [[Clandestine cell system|operational terrorist cells]] are often small, with all members known to on ...al.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1410276.1410278]</ref> explains such a modeling system looking at terrorism, counter-terrorism and their effects. The most genera
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• Definitions of terrorism
  ...irst appearance in English. The excerpt reads: "There exists more than one system to overthrow our liberty. Fanaticism has raised every passion; Royalism has ...ace of public use, a State or government facility, a public transportation system, an infrastructure facility or the environment; or
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• History of terrorism
  ...an Rights Watch|Americas Watch]] - subsequently folded into [[Human Rights Watch]] - accused the Contras of targeting health care clinics and health care wo ...eased sarin gas in a coordinated attack on five trains in the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 commuters and damaging the health of about 5,000 others<ref>{{c
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• Thief in law
  As the police and court system were re-established in the [[Soviet Union]] shortly after the 1917 revoluti ...ife beyond the reach of the [[KGB]]"<ref name="Schwirtz"/>. They adopted a system of collective responsibility, and swearing to a code of "complete submissio
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• Taliban
  ...a Bin Laden the Taliban proceeded further to Kabul [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzPcMB9SQz0&feature=search see video], where for the first time they face ...er = [[Journeyman Pictures/ABC Australia]]}}</ref> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvYglyjbHkI see video] The alliance was called United Front but in the We
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• 2001 anthrax attacks
  ...s were ''not'' "weaponized."<ref name="youtube.com">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHJNZUiyLGo</ref><ref name="nationalacademies.org">[http://www.nationalac ...s release, "FBI & Bush Adminstration Sued over Anthrax Documents: Judicial Watch Wants to Know Why White House Went on Cipro Beginning September 11th, What
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• Wood Green ricin plot
  ...a 2002 [[bioterrorism]] alleged plot on the [[London Underground]] railway system, in which [[ricin]] poison would have been manufactured and used for an att [[Physician]]s throughout the [[United Kingdom]] were warned to watch for signs that patients had been poisoned by ricin,<ref name=DOH-20030107 /
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• Arbitrary arrest and detention
  ...ween different national jurisdictions) is typically tolerated by the legal system for a short duration, of a few hours up to a few days, in most democracies, ...med Forces |work=Human Rights |publisher=[http://www.hrw.org/ Human Rights Watch] | url =http://www.hrw.org/reports/1997/indtimor/Indtimor-04.htm |date=1998
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• Black site
  ...tions], ''[[Amnesty International]]'', 1 January 2006</ref> [[Human Rights Watch]], [[Black sites]] article on Wikipedia{{Citation needed|date=October 2007} ...han12319.htm U.S. Operated Secret ‘Dark Prison’ in Kabul (Human Rights Watch, 19-12-2005)], retrieved on 4. May 2009</ref> Also in Afghanistan, [[Jalala
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• Border Security and Terrorism
  ...to a crowd of Iraqi police recruits in [[Iraq]] and killed 135 people. The system that restricted al-Banna from entering the United States is under much scru ...crossers. Border Patrol Officials do not have the same access to Terrorist Watch Lists that airlines and TSA agents have. The security systems of these sepa
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