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1. "The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques] Cousteau told the camera. "The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north to mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity." From "Captain Cousteau," Audubon (May 1990):17.

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1. Captain Cousteau said in tape that just like the sun is a source of heat, the Antartic is a source of cold for our planet. The cold ocean around the Atlantic, he explain, flows north so that it can mix with warmer waters but since we, the human kind, are contaminating and ruining the earth, this cycle is becoming endagered. (Audbon May 1990)

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2. The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past. From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.

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2. The twenties where years of change around the United States. Back then, the organized criminal groups, mafias, where in charge of the cities. The law was also disrespected and the authorities lost their power over the people. Jazz had come in sweeping away classical music, Louise Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke became role models to the eyes of the youth, and woman responded and started wearing short skirts as well as bobbed hair and became in a way more open with the "flapper" movement. Maybe the tweinties have more to do with the United States' lost of their past roots. (Kathleen Yancey, 1985)

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3. Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.

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3. There are many bicycle deaths each year and studies say that half of these deaths are school children. Also, many deaths are cause by head injuries yet there are ways to reduce the probability of getting a head injury while riding bikes. Study's concluded that wearing a bicycle helmet reduce by a high percentage the risk of a head injury since if an accident is to happen, the helmet protects the head and stops the shock of the hit. ("Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers" May 1990)

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4. Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the smell of oranges as essential to a still life. " depicts the well-known gateway Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history, Matisse gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab, the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate. From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.

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4. Matisse can be considered the best painter at creating image reality and he's the most sentimental and realistic modern painter. His work, "The Casbah Gate", inspired in a gateway near a Sultan's palace, with so many thoughtful and delightfully alive colours yet with dark lovely colours. Matisse has a dash of a inspiration and live in his paintings and the essence as well as the message of nature itself. ("Bright Lights" March 1990)

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5. While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world's tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building. From Ron Bachman, "Reaching for the Sky." Dial (May 1990): 15.

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5. The Sears towers might be considered one of the greatest goals in arquitecture till today.