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... increased steadily since 1900 , and the rate of increase is accelerat- ing . Now the output of carbon dioxide is believed by some to have reached a point such that it may exceed both the capacity of plant life to remove it from the at ...
... increased steadily since 1900 , and the rate of increase is accelerat- ing . Now the output of carbon dioxide is believed by some to have reached a point such that it may exceed both the capacity of plant life to remove it from the at ...
Page 393
... increase in a way similar to that in which the rate of rotation of a weight twirled on the end of a string increases as the string is pulled in and the angular momentum of the weight is conserved . The region of convergence thus appears ...
... increase in a way similar to that in which the rate of rotation of a weight twirled on the end of a string increases as the string is pulled in and the angular momentum of the weight is conserved . The region of convergence thus appears ...
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... increase once more . Girls have a little more fat than boys at birth , and the difference be- comes more marked during the period of loss , since girls lose less than boys . From eight years on , the curves for girls and boys diverge ...
... increase once more . Girls have a little more fat than boys at birth , and the difference be- comes more marked during the period of loss , since girls lose less than boys . From eight years on , the curves for girls and boys diverge ...
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