Fewer Demography Depopulation Shape Future
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What starts off as a persuasive statistical analysis dwindles into demagoguery in Wattenberg’s latest demographic exploration. Wattenberg (The Real America; The Birth Dearth), expanding on previous work, offers a detailed breakdown of trends toward global depopulation. The previous population projections, he considers, grossly overestimated peak population numbers, and even current U.N. projections, he says, tend toward the high side. The discrepancies are due to dramatically decreasing fertility rates throughout the world, he argues, making population growth rate much slower than anticipated. He predicts that after peaking in the next decades, the rate will drop sharply.

Fluorspar from China
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That means the U.S. is 100% dependent on imports for its fluorspar - particularly from China.

Fluorspar's history
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Approximately 5,000 pieces of fluorspar and other minerals are on display at the Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum in Crittenden County. Clement was born September 6, 1891, and graduated from Vanderbilt in 1915 with a B. S. degree in science. From 1920 until his death in 1980, he accumulated what has become known as the finest and largest collection of fluorite in the world. A museum was opened in 1992 in the old Crittenden County Elementary School annex, next to Fohs Hall in Marion, Kentucky, where Ronnie Stubblefield serves as curator.

Fluorspar
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Fluorspar
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Fluorspar is used directly or indirectly to manufacture products such as aluminum, gasoline, insulating foams, refrigerants, steel, and uranium fuel. All domestic sources of fluorspar are derived from sales of material from the National Defense Stockpile and from a small amount of synthetic fluorspar produced from industrial waste streams. Byproduct fluorosilicic acid production from some phosphoric acid producers supplements fluorspar as a domestic source of fluorine, but is not included in fluorspar production or consumption calculations.

Halogens
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Synthesized: Prepared by scientists in a laboratory; not a naturally occurring process.

Because it is so reactive, fluorine itself has few uses. One exception is its role as an oxidizing (burning) agent in rocket fuels. The vast majority of fluorine, however, is used to make compounds. One of the most interesting of those compounds is hydrofluoric acid. This compound has been used since the 1600s to etch glass.

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Skin is the largest organ of the human body
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A Quick View of Our Skin and What it Does
The skin is the largest organ of the human body. In the average adult it covers about 3000 square inches and weighs around six pounds, which is nearly twice the weight of the human brain or liver. The skin receives
about one third of the blood that circulates through the body. It’s rugged, flexible and practically waterproof. The skin can regenerate and repair itself under most conditions. The skin also helps in the dissipation of sweat. The skin and its appendages are known as the integumentary system.

It provides protection, thermoregulation, sensation, and allows secretion. The skin is made up of two main layers called the epidermis and the dermis. It also has a number of appendages like hair, nails and sweat glands.

Frequently asked questions about fluoride
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If I take a shower with fluoridated water, will the fluoride enter through my skin?

There is anecdotal evidence indicating that some people may experience adverse skin reactions from showering in fluoridated water. However, there is very little information in the published scientific literature to document this concern. There is also very little published research documenting if, and to what extent, fluoridated water may pass through the skin and enter the bloodstream. The tests that would be needed to determine this would be simple to do. However, as with other important issues related to fluoride and health, these tests have yet to be done.

I found the following and altho it's OT, I thought it was worthy of posting. It shows the Bush family owns almost 10% of Chevron.
Pennzoil, George Bush, and Chevron
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PENNZOIL
Pennzoil Place, PO Box 2967, Houston TX 77252-2967
telephone 713-546-4000
fax 713-5466-7591
Created in 1963 from the merger of South Penn Oil of Pennsylvania and George Bush's Zapata Oil. In the 1980s, Pennzoil tried to buy Getty Oil, but Texaco got it instead; Pennzoil was awarded $3 billion, and turned around and purchased almost ten percent of Chevron. A third of Pennzoil's 1990 income was from oil and gas (drilling in 13 states and offshore and in 4 other countries); 15 percent from sulphur (mining in Culberson County TX; processing in Galveston TX and Antwerp, Belgium), and 15 percent from automotive products. Its Richland Development division has land in Colorado and New Mexico and gold and silver in Borneo, Indonesia. Owns Jiffy Lube shops and Purolator (Hoover's Handbook of American Business 1992).

Pennzoil planned to develop an oil field in western Siberia (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 24, 1991, p. D2).