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"Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service of non-heterosexual people.Instituted during the Clinton administration, the policy was issued under Department of Defense Directive 1304.26 on December 21, 1993, and was in effect from February 28, 1994, until September 20, 2011. [1]
A.M. is the debut studio album by the American rock band Wilco, released on March 28, 1995, by Sire Records and Reprise Records.The album was released only months after the breakup of Uncle Tupelo, an alternative country band that was the predecessor of Wilco.
The Labours of Hercules is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1947 [1] [2] and in the UK by Collins Crime Club in September of the same year. [3]
Historically, LSD solutions were first sold on sugar cubes, but practical considerations [clarification needed] forced a change to tablet form. Appearing in 1968 as an orange tablet measuring about 6 mm across, "Orange Sunshine" acid was the first largely available form of LSD after its possession was made illegal.
In 1990, the United States Census Bureau undertook a study of the 1990 United States Census, and released a sample of data concerning the most popular names. [21] According to this sample of 6.3 million people (who had 5,494 unique first names), [22] Randal was ranked as the 477th most popular masculine name, and Randall was ranked 139th most ...
In the gas phase, it can image cavities in a porous sample, alveoli in lungs, or the flow of gases within the lungs. [177] [178] Because xenon is soluble both in water and in hydrophobic solvents, it can image various soft living tissues. [179] [180] [181] Xenon-129 is currently being used as a visualization agent in MRI scans.
Zinc fingers form parts of some transcription factors, which are proteins that recognize DNA base sequences during the replication and transcription of DNA. Each of the nine or ten Zn 2+ ions in a zinc finger helps maintain the finger's structure by coordinately binding to four amino acids in the transcription factor. [210]
The greatest elevation lay to the south in the form of a lofty, arched ridge, which we took to be about 500 feet [150 m] high on the horizon. But it might be assumed that this ridge continued to rise beyond the range of vision". Antarctica (Ross Ice Shelf) taken from orbit by Galileo. The next day, the party made its first steps on the Barrier.