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  2. Native American use of fire in ecosystems - Wikipedia

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    Light burning is also been called "Paiute forestry," a direct but derogatory reference to southwestern tribal burning habits. [52] The ecological impacts of settler fires were vastly different than those of their Native American predecessors. Cultural burning practices were functionally made illegal with the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911. [53]

  3. Wood fuel - Wikipedia

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    Wood burning advocates claim [weasel words] that properly harvested wood is carbon-neutral, therefore off-setting the negative impact of by-product particles given off during the burning process. In the context of forest wildfires, wood removed from the forest setting for use as wood fuel can reduce overall emissions by decreasing the quantity ...

  4. Cancer survival rates - Wikipedia

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    The most common cancer among women in the United States is breast cancer (123.7 per 100,000), followed by lung cancer (51.5 per 100,000) and colorectal cancer (33.6 per 100,000), but lung cancer surpasses breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death among women. [13]

  5. John Kanzius - Wikipedia

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    John S. Kanzius (March 1, 1944 – February 18, 2009) was an American inventor, radio and TV engineer, one-time station owner and ham radio operator (call sign: K3TUP) from Erie, Pennsylvania. He invented a method that, he said, could treat virtually all forms of cancer, [1] with no side effects, and without the need for surgery or medication.

  6. Woman, 23, had a 'burning sensation' in her stomach. It was ...

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    Sydney Towle, then 23, had a bump in her stomach that she thought was a hernia. Then she felt burning. She had bile duct cancer, rare for her age.

  7. Pyrolysis - Wikipedia

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    Putting a lid on the frying pan keeps the water in, and some of it re-condenses, keeping the temperature too cool to brown for longer time. Pyrolysis of food can also be undesirable, as in the charring of burnt food (at temperatures too low for the oxidative combustion of carbon to produce flames and burn the food to ash ).

  8. No, cooking oil doesn't cause cancer — but new study links ...

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    The study, conducted in a lab funded by the National Cancer Institute, focused on the role of lipids, also known as fats, in the microenvironments around colon cancer tumors.

  9. Chimney sweeps' carcinoma - Wikipedia

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    Chimney sweeps' cancer, also called soot wart or scrotal cancer, is a squamous cell carcinoma of the scrotum. It has the distinction of being the first reported form of occupational cancer, and was initially identified by Percivall Pott in 1775. [1] It was initially noticed as being prevalent amongst chimney sweeps.