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Best Paying Jobs in Health Care

Best Paying Jobs in Health Care

Careers within the health care industry are expected to expand into a record number of job opportunities. Health care careers dominate eight of the top ten highest paying occupations and offer a variety of employment possibilities with ample salaries. During May 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor...

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What Is Maxillary Surgery?

Maxillary surgery is a procedure done to rectify problems with the upper jaw. These abnormalities may be due to congenital factors - a cleft palate, for example. Children who are born with this deformity need to undergo maxillary surgery at an early age in order for the procedure to work best....

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What Is Radiographic Anatomy?

Radiographic anatomy is the study of anatomy or the body using radiographic films, commonly called x-rays. All medical students study this, those who go on to specialize in it are radiographers, orthopedic surgeons and dentists. Radiographic anatomy aims to accurately identify and describe physical...

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What Is the Cuneiform Bone?

The cuneiform bone, in human anatomy, may mean any of three bones located in either the top or middle of the foot. The three bones are the medial cuneiform bone, the lateral cuneiform bone, and the intermediate cuneiform bone. The arching form of the foot is partially due to the structure of the...

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What Is the Radius Bone?

There are two long bone located between the elbow and the wrist, it is the radius and the ulna. The radius is the lateral one which is always aligned with the thumb. Lateral, when used in a physiological context, refers to the portion that is furthest away from the mid-line of the torso, this is...

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What Is the Heel Bone?

The heal bone, technically called calcaneus, is one of the bone located in the human foot. Proximally connected to the cuboid bone and distally connected, via the subtalar joint, to the talus. Severing to aid in the human being in walking, providing proper movement of the foot. Most injuries to...

13 of the Craziest Crackpot Internet Sites

13 of the Craziest Crackpot Internet Sites

The internet is the great playing field leveler. On the internet, no one knows you're a dog, right? But it turns out that we have a pretty good idea if you're a paranoid schizophrenic with persecution complex — because that's what your website tells us about you. These 13 people are all crackpots...

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What Is the Best Way to Clean Suede?

Suede is a beautiful fabric—very smooth and sophisticated, and much prized for bags and shoes. It is also used in home décor. However, suede is quite delicate. It is important to use specialty cleansing products, because even if it is a type of leather, traditional leather cleaners will damage...

15 of the Deadliest Corporations

15 of the Deadliest Corporations

These U.S. corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.

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The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

The MeditationsBy Marcus Aurelius Written 167 A.C.E.Translated by George Long Book One From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper. From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character. From my mother, piety and beneficence, and...