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“If I could give you a pill that would make you an Olympic champion — and also kill you in a year — would you take it?” Dr. Gabe Mirkin questioned competitive runners that question in advance of a Washington, D.C., road race in 1967. Of the approximately 100 athletes who returned Mirkin’s questionnaire, more than half responded that they would take the pill.

The prevalence of performance-enhancing drugs in sports has increased in the 43 years since Mirkin, a physician and sports medicine expert, handed out his survey. The desire to win is, naturally, ever present while, at the same time, new research and technologies have expanded the number of options for cheating your way onto the podium. For example, today’s performance-enhancing drugs come in many forms other than a pill (“the cream and the clear,” a testosterone-based ointment described by accused athletes in court testimony, comes to mind), but the results they produce are still highly sought after. Professional cycling has been repeatedly rocked by revelations and allegations of drug use. Every two years as the Olympic Games start, we hear about athletes using or at least being tested for performance-enhancing drugs. Major League Baseball is still trying to repair its image from the steroid era. And the list goes on.

Some athletes get away with using drugs; others wind up suspended from their sport or even in jail, and still others die prematurely. It’s a risky and complex game within a game that plays itself out on a public stage. In this article, we’ll discuss why some athletes take drugs, what the major classes of drugs and their side effects are, and how people test for drug use.

Picture two brick ranch-style houses, side by side. There’s nothing remarkably different about their architecture or aesthetic — except for the yards. One lawn is well-tended with clean beds of vibrant plants splashed among freshly mown Kentucky bluegrass. The other looks pitifully neglected with yellow, parched grass and scraggly shrubs that hide the house’s front windows. If you had pick between these two houses solely based on the curb appeal, which would you choose? The one with the nicer landscaping, right?

Thoughtful landscaping can improve your overall satisfaction with a home while you live there, as well as the chances of luring of potential buyers when you go. In fact, landscaping is an investment that can boost the value of your home up to 11 percent [source: Garskof]. If done well, you can recover up to 200 percent of landscaping expenses when you sell your house [source: American Nursery & Landscaping Association]. But to reap those benefits in the long term, you have to spend some money initially. Depending on how drastic of a transformation you’re going for and how you go about it, a landscaping budget can grow as quickly as summertime weeds. Some experts recommend allotting between 5 and 15 percent of your house’s worth to pay for a lawn makeover [source: Archer].

What if you don’t have thousands of dollars to spend? Although it will require a small more sweat and strategizing, you can pull off a landscaping project easily on a lean budget. Here are 10 tips to revamp your yard thriftily, organized from the beginning of your landscaping endeavor to when everything’s in the ground.

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Global warming was once an uncommon term used by a few scientists who were growing concerned over the effects of decades of pollution on long-term weather patterns. Today, the thought of global warming is well known, if not well understood. It is not unusual to hear someone complaining about a hot day or a freak storm and remark, “It’s global warming.”

Well, is it? In this article, we’ll learn what global warming is, what causes it, what its current effects are and what the future effects could be. Although there has been a scientific consensus on global warming, some aren’t sure it’s something we need to worry about. We’ll examine some proposed changes in the United States’ national policies related to curbing global warming and the criticisms and concerns surrounding them.

Global warming is a significant increase in the Earth’s climatic temperature over a relatively small period of time as a result of the activities of humans.

In specific terms, an increase of 1 or more degrees Celsius in a period of one hundred to two hundred years would be considered global warming. Over the course of a single century, an increase of even 0.4 degrees Celsius would be significant.

To know what this means, let’s start by reviewing the difference between weather and climate.

HP Pavilion Elite HPE-500z is a new yet another high-class product rolled out into market by HP. HP has high-class customers in hand, who are always looking forward for something better and new. The system comes in a complete package which includes 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon X4 640 quad-core processor and has 4 GB of DDR-3 1333 MHz SD RAM, 640GB 7200 rpm SATA 3GB/s Hard Drive, and 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce Graphics card.

The processor installed in this machine gives a high-class speed which enables easy and fastest work. One can create high class graphics, stream videos, run diehard graphics games and all kinds of high-tech software without any worry of system being crashed. With a 4 GB of DDR-3 1333 MHz SD RAM, system will never go into any virtual memory error. This huge memory enables running all types of high graphical programs, videos, software, games and all types of business software which can be thought of.

Hard disk with 640 GB of space and 7200 rpm speed and SATA 3GB/s allows to store a huge amount of data, files, software programs, images and all kinds of programs. 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce Graphics card allows to run highest quality of graphical programs, games and provides a true quality performance running them flawlessly at a wonderful speed to allow user experience a true performance.

Besides these, Lightscribe 16-X max DVD reader and writer will let you play all types of high-quality HD DVDs, with high performance; it also allows playing DVDs, VCDs, and CDs having any kind of content with true and refined results. Integrated Ethernet port can connect with all types of local area networking systems giving complete output and completely reliable interactivity. 15 in one memory card allows reading, writing, re-writing memory cards which are compatible with windows operating system.

Other than this, HP Pavilion Elite HPE-500z is equipped with high quality USB keyboard, and an optical mouse to help you be more precise. This machine has Windows 7 premium home 64-bit genuine edition installed. System comes with a 2 years warranty which covers all types of hardware and software errors and problems and, along with it a complete 24/7 customer care center support is always there to guide through any type of error and problems occurring in the system. You can also get pretty good discounts and coupons by shopping this machine online from any reliable e-commerce technology store.

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