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2) Tornado
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes how tornadoes are formed, the conditions that exist in tornadoes, the harmful and beneficial effects of these storms, and their impact on humans, plants, and animals.
3) Thunderstorm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes how thunderstorms are formed; the lightning, thunder, winds, and rains that are part of them; and the impact of these storms on plants, animals, and humans.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. Includes instructions on folding paper cranes.
9) Heat stress
Author
Series
Pesticide fact sheet volume 132
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
This fact sheet describes what heat stress is and how to control it."
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
This report presents initial efforts toward monitoring the changes in marijuana use patterns, potential health effects of marijuana use, and the most recent scientific findings associated with marijuana use to help facilitate evidence-based policy decisions and science-based public education campaigns.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these,...
Author
Series
Health watch volume no. 91
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used by pregnant women in the U.S., with nearly 4.6 percent reporting recent use during their first trimester and 1.4 percent in the third trimester. A number of studies have evaluated the impacts of marijuana exposure on the developing fetus. However, few have looked at postnatal exposures to marijuana through breastfeeding, and much less is known about the effects of pediatric exposures to sidestream smoke....