Louis Agassiz: His Life And Correspondence
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    Louis Agassiz: His Life And Correspondence
    Louis Agassiz
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    . . .I have also a piece of good news to communicate, which will, I hope, lead to very favorable results for me. I think I told you when I left for Paris that my chief anxiety was lest I might not be allowed to examine, and still less to describe, the fossil fishes and their skeletons in the Museum. Knowing that Cuvier intended to write a work on this subject, I supposed that he would reserve these specimens for himself. I half thought he might, on seeing my work so far advanced, propose to me to finish it jointly with him, --but even this I hardly dared to hope. It was on this account, with the view of increasing my materials and having thereby a better chance of success with M. Cuvier, that I desired so earnestly to stop at Strasbourg and Carlsruhe, where I knew specimens were to be seen which would have a direct bearing on my aim. The result has far surpassed my expectation.

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    . . .I have also a piece of good news to communicate, which will, I hope, lead to very favorable results for me. I think I told you when I left for Paris that my chief anxiety was lest I might not be allowed to examine, and still less to describe, the fossil fishes and their skeletons in the Museum. Knowing that Cuvier intended to write a work on this subject, I supposed that he would reserve these specimens for himself. I half thought he might, on seeing my work so far advanced, propose to me to finish it jointly with him, --but even this I hardly dared to hope. It was on this account, with the view of increasing my materials and having thereby a better chance of success with M. Cuvier, that I desired so earnestly to stop at Strasbourg and Carlsruhe, where I knew specimens were to be seen which would have a direct bearing on my aim. The result has far surpassed my expectation.
    Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science
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      Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science
      Edward Lurie
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      A giant of nineteenth-century natural history study, Louis Agassiz made major contributions to modern knowledge of geology, paleontology, and zoology. Agassiz's fame in America was largely as a popularizer of natural history and teacher of advanced students. Founding the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard was his lasting teaching and research achievement, and the Smithsonian Institution and National Academy of Sciences benefited from his impulse to professionalize science. A life-long opponent of the theory of evolution. Agassiz affirmed the magnificence of God's plan to all who would "study nature, not books".
      Methods of Study in Natural History
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        Methods of Study in Natural History
        Louis Agassiz
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        1896. The series of papers collected in this volume may be considered as a compliment or commentary to my Essay on Classification, since I have endeavored to present here in a more popular form the views first expressed in that work. And although the direct intention of these pages has been, as their title indicates, to give some general hints to young students as to the methods by which scientific truth has been reached, including a general sketch of the history of science in past times, yet I have also wished to avail myself of this opportunity to enter my earnest protest against the transmutation theory, revived of late with so much ability, and so generally received. It is my belief that naturalists are chasing a phantom, in their search after some material gradation among created beings, by which the whole animal Kingdom may have been derived by successive development from a single germ, or from a few germs...the resources of the Deity cannot be so meager, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.
        The Burgess Animal Book For Children
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          The Burgess Animal Book For Children
          Thornton W. Burgess
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          1920. A charmingly written introductory-level book for young minds to the four-footed friends, little and big, which form so important a part of the wild life of the United States and Canada. The purpose of the book is to acquaint the reader with the larger groups-orders, families, and divisions of the latter, so that typical representatives may readily be recognized and their habits understood.
          The Burgess Animal Book for Children
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            The Burgess Animal Book for Children
            Thornton W. Burgess
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            1920. A charmingly written introductory-level book for young minds to the four-footed friends, little and big, which form so important a part of the wild life of the United States and Canada. The purpose of the book is to acquaint the reader with the larger groups-orders, families, and divisions of the latter, so that typical representatives may readily be recognized and their habits understood.
            Essay on Classification
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              Essay on Classification
              Louis Agassiz
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              A treasure of historically valuable insights that contributed to the development of evolutionary biology, this volume introduced the landmark contention that paleontology, embryology, ecology, and biogeography are inextricably linked in the process of classification. Its emphasis on advanced and original work gave major impetus to the study of science directly from nature.
              Louis Agassiz, A Life in Science
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                Louis Agassiz, A Life in Science
                Edward Lurie
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                Louis Agassiz: a life in Science
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                  Edward Lurie
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                  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
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                    Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

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                    This first edition of the standard biography of Louis Agassiz contains correspondence between Agassiz and other great men of science, including Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, Georges Cuvier, Charles Lyell and Richard Owen, and offers an intriguing insight into the life and times of this important paleontologist.

                    Louis Agassiz: His life and work (Leaders in science)
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                      Louis Agassiz: His life and work (Leaders in science)
                      Charles Frederick Holder
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                      Pilocarpinae (Rutaceae) (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 33)
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                        Pilocarpinae (Rutaceae) (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 33)
                        Roel C. Kaastra
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                        SECRET FRANCE, CHARMING VILLAGES & COUNTRY TOURS
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                          Secret France: Charming Villages and Country Tours
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                            Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
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                            Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
                            Michael J. Behe
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                            Michael J. Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University, presents here a scientific argument for the existence of God. Examining the evolutionary theory of the origins of life, he can go part of the way with Darwin--he accepts the idea that species have been differentiated by the mechanism of natural selection from a common ancestor. But he thinks that the essential randomness of this process can explain evolutionary development only at the macro level, not at the micro level of his expertise. Within the biochemistry of living cells, he argues, life is "irreducibly complex." This is the last black box to be opened, the end of the road for science. Faced with complexity at this level, Behe suggests that it can only be the product of "intelligent design."

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                            The groundbreaking, "seminal work" (Time) on intelligent design that dares to ask, was Darwin wrong?

                            In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. It sparked a national debate on evolution, which continues to intensify across the country. From one end of the spectrum to the other, Darwin's Black Box has established itself as the key intelligent design text -- the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether Darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it.

                            In a major new Afterword for this edition, Behe explains that the complexity discovered by microbiologists has dramatically increased since the book was first published. That complexity is a continuing challenge to Darwinism, and evolutionists have had no success at explaining it. Darwin's Black Box is more important today than ever.

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                            From within the highest ranks of the scientific community comes a startling new theory of creation that not only contradicts Darwinian orthodoxy but opens the door to theological arguments biologists have dismissed and ridiculed for more than a century.

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                            5 out of 5 stars A Design Parade.......2007-10-08

                            After I purchased biochemist Michael Behe's new book "The Edge of Evolution," I decided it would be wise for me to boney up on his seminal 1996 work "Darwin's Black Box." I already played muck-a-muck with this debate for quite a few months, in a whirling attempt of absorbed concentration in the infamous struggle of "Design v. Darwin" to find out the truth. The debate may be superfluous, and especially downright nasty, and it will continue to intensify in the coming months with a new documentary by lawyer and social commentator Ben Stein in February 2008. Reading Behe is like taking a time out from the unfair play on both sides of the field. He is a better penman than Richard Dawkins, devoid of the man's vile poison, and he treats the reader as a student to be respected, not as a clay figure to be molded into a Darwiniac inquisitor. In fact, Behe is a committed believer in common descent, a position that isn't too friendly a bedfellow of creationists. The book is unique in both its author and its content, as demonstrated by the numerous "critiques" and "debunking" of the arguments proposed on the Amazon boards. Reading the hundreds or so reviews and responses only do so much to strengthen Behe's ideas.

                            This book is more like a parade. Behe, the ringleader with the marching rod, introduces us to the central argument of the "Black Box." It turns out to be irreducible complexity, which embodies the fabric of many biological systems once believed to be inconsequential, simplistic globules developed by chance mutation and selection. We then witness the march of the band and its many sections: the cell, the bacterial flagellum, blood-clotting, the cilium, etc. Each system, composed of many interdependent parts, will cease functioning if only one of its microscopic parts is missing. The individual parts, of course, can still possibly perform some other function (so goes the most powerful critique against ID! Things have different functions! Eureka!). However, the system itself will be quite useless. Thus appears the grand finale, a prolonged beat of the bass drum, which is that the neo-Darwinian paradigm is an implausible explanation for how these molecular systems appeared, no matter how many billions of years you attempt to postulate for its progress.

                            Attacking the hypothesis of intelligent design as a "God-of-the-Gaps" argument is one of the most frequently peddled mischaracterizations in all of the debate, promoted by no less than the most rabid of atheistic biologists like Dawkins and Eugenie Scott. The argument goes: We cannot envision a way naturalistic science could develop this system; hence it was made by God. The falsehood in this attack is typical, not to mention simplistic. Behe himself describes ID as the purposeful arrangement of parts in a system. We see this in every biological system: the cell, the flagellum, the cilium, and the blood clotting system. These systems are arranged in a purposeful pattern, structured precisely to, in the case of the cell, to replicate and store information, and in the case of other biological organisms, to sustain itself (unlike non-living materials like, say, rocks). It says nothing about whom or what this designer is. And, of course, it still remains the burden of proof to demonstrate how it evolved. We're talking about the Supreme Law of the Universe (Darwinism), and all that people can come up with are fairy tales about how it MIGHT have happened?

                            Neo-Darwinism cannot be supported much longer. It doesn't mean that evolution did not occur, or that common descent is a bogus idea. But the chance mutation-selection paradigm is becoming increasingly to difficult to sustain. The hyperactive Stalinist response to events like the Dover case and the actions committed by groups like the NSTA and ASE in America suggests a religious cult going through panic mode. Certainly there is something to what Behe and the rest of the ID movement is saying that just strikes a nerve. Maybe it's just the truth.

                            5 out of 5 stars A great critique of evolution........2007-09-25

                            Supporters of the classic evolution that is taught in schools went nuts when this book was published. It could be argued that Michael Behe started the inteligent design theory and brought the debate of evolution back public stage.

                            Behe has been heavily criticized for daring to confront the evolution juggernaught and has made his book a must read for anyone interested in the evolution debate. This book is important and will shape the thinking of evolutionary scientists in the future, whether they like it or not.

                            1 out of 5 stars Behe's empty box.......2007-09-05

                            First let's start with a quote from The National Academy of Science. " Creationism, I.D. and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life of species are not science because they are not testable by the methods of science."

                            Mr. Behe uses the terms darwinism, darwinian evolution, darwinian gradualism through-out his book instead of modern evolution because he knows this name carries alot of heated imagery in the minds of the fundamentalist. If confronted with the findings of modern day evolution I think Mr. Behe would realize just how shakey the ground for his ideas would become.
                            He condems Prof. Doolittle for using a "yin yang" analogy but goes on to give boring and irrealivant analogy after analogy of his own.
                            He states that 90 persent of Americans believe in God as if the truth were dictated by a show of hands. If that were true then he might want to convert to Islam since the Muslim faith is the largest religious group in the world.
                            This leads me to my next problem with Mr. Behe's book. He is constantly refering to an intelligent designer or intelligent agent, and then speaking of the supernatural and divine. Here I have two questions.
                            1. Why use the singular noun? Why not appeal to many intelligent designers or agents?
                            2. Why could'nt these creators be "natural" as opposed to supernatural?

                            Which leads me to my final gripe.
                            Mr. Behe is constantly telling us how the scientific evidence points to an intelligent designer but never offers his own testable proof. Complexity is not proof in and of itself. What is the indentity of this creator? He does'nt say. The whole book seemed to be a rant against scientist who do not agree with his view. Mr. Behe seems to think there's this big conspiracy against the truth. Who's truth? His.

                            5 out of 5 stars Amazing stuff.......2007-08-31

                            Functionally interdependent irreducible complexities....fascinating. How can these be adequately explained? I find it truly amazing.

                            5 out of 5 stars Wonderful.......2007-08-22

                            Down to earth with complexity explained in a simple readable way. This is a very good source to dispute one of the most absurd notions in the history of the world....evolution. Fantastic, logical, and full of expert knowledge. Dispute it if you wish, but truth is evident. God is real!
                            Circle of Three #14: The Challenge Box (Circle of Three)
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                            Circle of Three #14: The Challenge Box (Circle of Three)
                            Isobel Bird
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                            Release Date: 2002-02-05

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                            Reach inside and choose your challenge,
                            Find the path that you must travel.
                            What trials have you to overcome?
                            What mysteries shall you unravel?

                            Of her circle, Kate has always struggled the most in learning the ways of the Craft. As her Wiccan initiation approaches, a final challenge threatens to overcome her at last.

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                            3 out of 5 stars "You Can Never Really Know What's True".......2004-08-29

                            As the second to last book in the "Circle of Three" series, our three witches-in-training are on the last leg before their initiation. Kate, Annie and Cooper have nearly completed the year-and-a-day of study in the field of modern witchcraft, and now only one last challenge awaits them: the aptly named Challenge Box.

                            The Box is filled with a number of paper slips, each with a task on it that the girls are required to complete - without telling the others what their individual task is. They have two weeks to understand and complete their challenges before reporting back to the study group - and the speculation of the coven. If Sophia, Archer and the other leaders decide their tasks are completed then they will be prepared for initiation. If not, then they will have to continue their studies indefinitely.

                            Each girl tackles the problems by themselves. Kate's task is to "Answer the question that has no answer." Utterly baffled by this, Kate is further upset when her parents forbid her in accompanying Annie and Cooper on their holiday to New Orleans. Instead she must work on fixing up her failing grade in her science class. After a confrontation with her nemesis Sherrie left her with a fail, Kate is given a second chance to make it up. At the same time, she's found herself on the last stage of convincing her parents that her involvement in Wicca is an unchangeable component of her life - but maybe in this conflict is the key to solving her challenge.

                            Meanwhile, Annie is grappling with her challenge: "Give away your most precious possession." Realising that it probably doesn't mean material possessions, Annie puzzles over the challenge on her way to New Orleans, where she is meeting her elder sister for the first time. Juliet was adopted long before Annie's birth, and up until a few months ago Annie wasn't even aware of her existence. And again, the events occurring in her lifetime may be directly involved with the meaning of her challenge.

                            Lastly, Cooper is stuck with "Face your greatest fear." So far, she's been having too much of a good time in New Orleans to give it much thought, but figures that the challenges of performing on stage and eating crawfish have something to do with it.

                            Within the entire series of "Circle of Three", this entry is one of the better ones. Isobel Bird manages to juggle all three of the girls' discoveries without neglecting one in particular, and although the Box's purpose as an accurate gauge for judging what girls are ready and what ones aren't are a bit dubious, the book does manage to end on a rather surprising final note.

                            As always, some things bothered me: Annie wandering off alone in the middle of Mardi Gras for one thing (is she aware of the dangers in doing that?!) and the rather pathetic audience that supposedly "howled with laughter" at Cooper's improvisation on stage - it's funny, but it's not *that* funny.

                            But Bird also treats Kate's relationship with the Catholic Church respectfully (unlike the more one-sided view she took in "Second Sight" and "The Five Paths") and miraculously gives us a *nice* representation of a Catholic priest. Also, she asks the fundamental question of life: what do you believe? Her ideas and musings on this question left me thinking - something I certainly didn't expect from these books!

                            5 out of 5 stars 3 cheers for Isobel!!.......2002-04-06

                            I had almost given up on the entire series, because number 11 was so bad and number 12 quite preachy. Then, as I had a bit of time in the library, I read this one figuring they couldn't get any worse. I wasn't disappointed.
                            The plot was good, and the twist at the end is stunning. You begin to think that something like that *may* happen, but won't coz, youknow, we're all used to sloppy endings. But it all fits. The pace of the story works well. Topics raised by the book also keep you thinking, and it still has that bit of strange magical happenings that we expect from Isobel's writing.
                            I throughly enjoyed it. It's as good as 'Merry Meet' and 'The Five Paths'. Now I'm looking forward to the next one.

                            5 out of 5 stars Cooper, Kate, and Annie's Final challenges.......2002-03-30

                            The challenge box is a strange thing. It's a small box filled with slips of paper which have certain challenges written onto it that Kate, Cooper, and Annie have to take in order to become initiated. Each of them has a challenge but it may be harder to complete than they ever imagined. Kate find herself plagues with questions that challenge her faith and beliefs. She wants to become a witch but is she ready? She's faced with another challenge when she's forced to work on yet another project with Sherrie, the girls she despises the most. Annie has finally meet her older sister in New Orleans and she and Cooper are immersed in the rich culture of New Orleans. But there's a question in the back of Annie's mind. Will he sister accept her if she knew she was Wiccan? And Cooper finds herself facing many things that she's uncomfortable or afraid of. Will she have the courage to face her greatest fear?

                            It's sad to see that such a great series is going to be over after I finish up the next book. But as they say all good things come to an end. The Challenge Box was yet another entertaining story about the three girls facing tough questions and making hard decisions about life. And the ending is quite a shocker too. I agree with whoever said it was a cruel place to leave us fans but it was quite an ending. Everyone who has been a fan of this series should read this book. I have the 15th and final book. Initiation, in my room waiting too be read.

                            5 out of 5 stars The Challange Box.......2002-03-24

                            Possibly the best book in the Circle of Three series yet. The book starts out with Kate, Annie, and Cooper each picking a challenge out of the challenge box. Obviously, none of them understood their challenges. They all hoped that their trip to New Orleans to visit Annie's newly found sister will help them.
                            At the last minute, Kate's parents forbid her to go, after her big science project blow with Sherrie. All the girls feel auful, but life goes on. On their last night together, Cooper gives Kate a box of gifts to open while they were gone. And believe me, that box was full of surprises.
                            Annie and Cooper encounter many, many surprises down in New Orleans. Including voodoo, a strange woman, a terrible case of stage fright, and the best food the girls have ever tasted!!!
                            When the girls get back to Beecher Falls, they've all figured out their challenges, after probably the hardest week of their lives. The story takes a shocking and terrible twist when the girls take their challenges to class and find out who is going to participate in the initiation. It is probably the most shocking and sad thing I've read so far in this series.
                            To find out this twist, you've GOT to read this book. It is THE best!!!!!!!!!

                            5 out of 5 stars A great book from a great series.......2002-03-14

                            This is one of the best from the series. I liked how it told about the individual challenges of Kate, Annie, and Cooper. You got to see how they felt about possibly being initiated into Wicca. But the end really surprised me, which is why I can't wait until the next one comes out.
                            The Challenge [BOX SET]
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                              BOX CONTENTS: 30 full color character cards 54 card action deck 54 card mystic deck 4 Reference Cards Basic game and Expansion rules ~ "The Challenge is an innovative card game of deadly combat and formidable magics. Action is fast paced and tension-filled as characters exchange blows, fire spells, and even attempt to backstab. It is the fantasy battle at its best. More than simply hack and slash, strategy is the key to victory, with cunning and skill playing a central role in your success. Game play is an exercise in diplomacy and subterfuge, as treaties and trickery can make all the difference between victory and defeat. While The Challenge is easy to learn (start playing in less than 15 minutes), it has a depth far beyond that of the typical card game. With its excitement filled, strategy oriented, full-throttled action, The Challenge is sure to become a classic. If you always loved combat the best... take The Challenge. For 2 to 6 players, playable in under an hour."
                              Challenge Boxes: 50 Projects in Creative Thinking
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                              Challenge Boxes: 50 Projects in Creative Thinking
                              Kathrine Valentino
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                              Fifty fascinating projects challenge the thinking skills of academically challenged students. Activities integrate language arts, science, social studies, math, art, and reference skills. Reproducible. Grades 4-8.

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                              5 out of 5 stars Great for Gifted Kids.......2007-06-24

                              The projects in this book can be adapted to create learning stations for gifted kids. Instead of handing your gifted student one more worksheet, why not send the student to a workstation with a challenging project that can be completed without much teacher assistance?
                              I highly recommend this book to teachers with gifted students who are always saying, "I'm bored!"
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                                    The Big Box's final frontier: in New York City, the superstores take on their greatest challenge. (chain retailers)(includes related article on resources): An article from: Planning
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                                      The Big Box's final frontier: in New York City, the superstores take on their greatest challenge. (chain retailers)(includes related article on resources): An article from: Planning
                                      Todd Bressi
                                      Manufacturer: American Planning Association
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                                      ASIN: B00093T6F8
                                      Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                                      This digital document is an article from Planning, published by American Planning Association on February 1, 1996. The length of the article is 2607 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                                      From the supplier: Big chain retailers are quickly moving into the different areas of New York City, including Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island and Manhattan. In the past, these retailers were reluctant to test the inner city market in these areas because of the high expense and the uncertainty about market demand. City planners view this trend in a positive way, with new retailers boosting the retail economy. Zoning changes may be considered to accommodate some retailers.

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                                      Title: The Big Box's final frontier: in New York City, the superstores take on their greatest challenge. (chain retailers)(includes related article on resources)
                                      Author: Todd Bressi
                                      Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
                                      Date: February 1, 1996
                                      Publisher: American Planning Association
                                      Volume: v62 Issue: n2 Page: p10(6)

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                                      Carton Services slapped with 4-item 483 for failing to perform required equipment challenges.(HUMAN DRUGS) : An article from: Inspection Monitor
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                                        Publication: Inspection Monitor (Newsletter)
                                        Date: September 1, 2005
                                        Publisher: Thomson Gale
                                        Volume: 10 Issue: 9 Page: 3

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                                        A change-challenge: the fire-support coordination "box". (Vortices).: An article from: Air & Space Power Journal
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                                          Mick Quintrall
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                                          Title: A change-challenge: the fire-support coordination "box". (Vortices).
                                          Author: Mick Quintrall
                                          Publication: Air & Space Power Journal (Refereed)
                                          Date: September 22, 2002
                                          Publisher: U.S. Air Force
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