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One of the main forces at work is a stark lack of nature, which is surprisingly beneficial for the brain. Studies have demonstrated, for instance, that hospital patients recover more quickly when they can see trees from their windows, and that women living in public housing are better able to focus when their apartment overlooks a grassy courtyard. Even these fleeting glimpses of nature improve brain performance, it seems, because they provide a mental break from the urban roil.

E-Prime, short for English-Prime, is a modified English syntax and vocabulary lacking all forms of the verb to be: be, is, am, are, was, were, been and being, and also their contractions. Sentences composed in E-Prime seldom contain the passive voice, which in turn may force the writer or speaker to think differently.[citation needed] By eliminating most uses of the passive voice, E-Prime compels the writer to explicitly acknowledge the agent of a sentence[citation needed], possibly making the written text easier to read and understand.

E-Prime, short for English-Prime, is a modified English syntax and vocabulary lacking all forms of the verb to be: be, is, am, are, was, were, been and being, and also their contractions. Sentences composed in E-Prime seldom contain the passive voice, which in turn may force the writer or speaker to think differently.[citation needed] By eliminating most uses of the passive voice, E-Prime compels the writer to explicitly acknowledge the agent of a sentence[citation needed], possibly making the written text easier to read and understand.

The studies examined were conducted between 1987 and 1999 andcovered Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Serzone, and Effexor. They found, on average, that placebos were 80 percent as effective as the drugs.

When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

InstaMapper is a free service that allows you to track a person or vehicle online in real time using a GPS-enabled cell phone.

Good physicians know the bad ones in their midst. Why don't they point fingers?

FlickrLeech, once an extremely popular way to search Flickr content, is now available for download to your PC or Mac! No more downtime or server issues.
The program is currently in Alpha, so use is encouraged, so long as you understand that not all features and functionality are in place yet.

The Book Of Ruby is a comprehensive free tutorial to the Ruby language. Eventually it will form a book of more than 400 pages in 20 chapters. It is being provided in the form of a PDF document in which each chapter is accompanied by ready-to-run source code for all the examples. The Introduction explains how to use this source code in Ruby In Steel or any other editor/IDE of your choice.

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Server side JavaScript with Google's v8 Javascript Engine as an Apache Module

App Engine Site Creator is designed to be a highly extensible and light weight content management system. It features a user-friendly content editing interface, a high degree of flexibility and customization, a file sharing mechanism, full support for page hierarchies, and fine-grained mechanisms for user management and access controls. It is built to run on Google App Engine and to scale well with minimal engineering maintenance.

This mapplet shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion.
Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press "Nuke It!"