The market for so-called functional beverages, drinks that promise health benefits beyond their inherent nutritional value, nearly doubled over the course of four years, in rising from $2.68 billion in 1997 to be $4.7 billion in 2000.

Researchers have chronicled changes in monsoon intensity that have occurred over tens of thousands of years,  with few of them that have examined variations in intensity over the smaller time scales relevant to human civilization.

After long denouncing nicotine for its highly addictive properties, which cause people to become dependent on tobacco, scientists have begun to consider it as a potential treatment for a variety of disorders, including stress, Alzheimer’s disease, and attention deficit disorder.

Sojourner Truth, the Black feminist lecturer of the pre-Civil War period, worked in the household of a Dutch master in upstate New York until she was 20, and for most of that time she spoke only Dutch.

The direction in which the Earth and the other solid planets--Mercury, Venus, and Mars--spins were determined from collisions with giant celestial bodies in the early history of the Solar System.

Though Rene Lalique was perhaps not as well known as Alphonse Mucha and other high-profile art nouveau designers, between his compatriot mile Galle's art glass was raised to unaccustomed heights of delicacy and delicacy and beauty in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Appointed in 1996 to make recommendations concerning the salaries and employment conditions of India's government workers, the Pay Commission's suggestions were to cut the staff by thirty percent over ten years, ban overtime, a six-day work week in place of the current five-day work week, and reducing government holidays from seventeen days to three days.

In planning dams, irrigation schemes, flood control methods, and hydroelectric power projects,  an understanding is required of variations in the supply and flow of water in a particular place, and of the sediment the water carries.

Slated for demolition in 1970, local residents formed a foundation to preserve Edward Hopper's boyhood home, soliciting donations and contributing time and expertise to the restoration.

Research on the reintroduction of large carnivores such as bears and wolves has implications both for the modern-day debate over the appropriateness of reintroduction programs and for the historical debate over what happened 10,000 to 50,000 years ago when one particular predator, human beings, expanded their territory and encountering large numbers of native prey.