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Pollution emitted in industrial areas represents a threat to human health and the surrounding natural resources. We tend to believe that the production processes are the only source of environmental damage, and often forget about the possible long-term effects of harmful production practices. We may think that the closure of these huge industrial areas would improve the quality of the environment. Unfortunately, this ignores the threat of the remaining waste, which is abandoned and poorly stored. It represents an even bigger danger because it stands neglected as it degrades and leaks into the earth without any control at all.
Changes in the chemistry of water due to surface water contamination can affect all levels of an ecosystem. It can affect the health of lower food chain organisms and, consequently, the availability of food up through the food chain. It can damage the health of wetlands and damage their ability to support healthy ecosystems, control flooding, and filter pollutants from storm water runoff. The health of animals and humans is affected when they drink or bathe in contaminated water. In addition, water-based organisms, like fish and shellfish, can pile up and concentrate contaminants in their bodies. When other animals or humans eat these organisms, they receive a much higher dose of contaminant than they would have if they had been directly exposed to the original contamination.
Contaminated groundwater can badly affect animals, plants and humans if it is removed from the ground by manmade or natural processes. Depending on the study of rocks of the area, groundwater may rise to the surface through springs or seeps, flow sideways into nearby rivers, streams, or ponds, or sink deeper into the earth. In many parts of the world, groundwater is pumped out of the ground to be used for drinking, bathing, other household uses, agriculture, and industry.
Contaminants in the soil can harm plants when they take up the contamination through their roots. Eating, breathing in, or touching contaminated soil, as well as eating plants or animals that have piled up soil contaminants can badly affect the health of humans and animals.
Air pollution can cause breathing-related problems and other bad health effects as contaminants are absorbed from the lungs into other parts of the body. Certain air contaminants can also harm animals and humans when they contact the skin. Plants rely on breathing for their growth and can also be affected by exposure to contaminants moved in the air.

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Many early ideas about the causes and cures of illness seem ridiculous to us today. Yet in some respects the methods for curing sick persons the medicine man of uncivilized tribes, the witch doctor, used are known to have had real value.
In early times when people became ill, they turned for help to the medicine man of the tribe. It was generally believed that sickness was caused by evil spirits, and it was the medicine man's task to drive these bad spirits out of the sick man. To do this, he would try to frighten them away by making loud noise and wearing frightening masks. Usually he would chant magic words, sing special songs, and perform special dances. Nearly always he used a particular kind of plant which was supposed to be a remedy for a particular sickness.
Some of these cures used by the medicine men did help. The plants which these early doctors used were frequently drugs now understood to be medicinal or pain-relieving. The respect and confidence which the people had in their medicine man gave sick persons hope and helped them feel better.

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One rather unlikely word that has recently entered the language is “blog”, a shortened form of “web log”. A blog is a diary posted on the Internet by the person writing it, the blogger, who presumably expects (44).... people to read it. It is ironical that modern technology is being used to breathe new life into such an old-fashioned form of the personal journal. And now, as the technology about video cameras is making them easier to use, we have the video log, or “vlog”. Vlogging does not (45) .... highly sophisticated equipment: a digital video camera, a high-speed Internet connection and a host are all that is needed. Vloggers can put anything that (46) .... their fancy onto their personal website. Some vloggers have no ambitions rather than to show films they have shot while on holiday in exotic places.(47) .... , vlogs can also serve more ambitious purposes. For instance, amateur film makers who want to make a name for themselves might publish their work on the Internet. And increasingly, vlogs are being used to publicize political and social issues (48) .... are not newsworthy enough to get coverage by the mass media. It is still too early to predict whether vlogging will ever take off in a major way or if it is just a passing fad, but its potential is only now becoming apparent.

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