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Lesson One: Tackling the Question

  Introduction Contrary to popular belief, all admissions officers are not old men with bowties and English accents. In fact, the first people to read your application are often…

Beware of Illegal Patent Services

Source: Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office. A patent, in the most general sense, is a document issued by a government, conferring some special right or privilege. The term is…

U.S. Passport Information

With a few exceptions, a passport is required for all U.S. citizens to depart and enter the United States and to enter most foreign countries. Persons who travel to a country where a U.S. passport is…

Five Scholarship Myths

by Benjamin Kaplan, FastWeb.com I'm about to dispel five widespread myths about winning college scholarships. Myths that have, unfortunately, prevented many deserving students from winning…

particle accelerator

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Linear accelerator (LINAC) CE5 Cyclotron: As the charged particles move faster, they spiral out to the edge of the Ds. particle accelerator, apparatus used in nuclear…

printing

(Encyclopedia) printing, means of producing reproductions of written material or images in multiple copies. There are four traditional types of printing: relief printing (with which this article is…

banking

(Encyclopedia) banking, primarily the business of dealing in money and instruments of credit. Banks were traditionally differentiated from other financial institutions by their principal functions of…

radio

(Encyclopedia) CE5 A. AM transmitter B. AM receiver radio, transmission or reception of electromagnetic radiation in the radio frequency range. The term is commonly applied also to the equipment…

Infoplease RSS Feeds

RSS is a way of bringing fresh content—such as Infoplease's daily features—directly to your desktop. To access RSS content, or "feeds," you first need to install a newsreader. Then you can link…

Copyright Registration

Copyright registration makes a public record of the basic facts of a particular copyright. Even though registration is not a requirement for protection, the copyright law provides several…