According to the libertarian Institute for Humane Studies, " the libertarian, or ' classical liberal ,' perspective is that individual well-being, prosperity, and social harmony are fostered by ' as much liberty as possible ' and ' as little government as necessary.

According to the Humane Society of the United States, thousands of puppy mills are located around the country.

According to Project Vote Smart, Ken Salazar received a 25 percent vote rating for 2007 by the Humane Society of the United States, a zero percent vote rating for 2005-2006 by Fund for Animals, a 60 percent vote rating for 2007 by Defenders of Wildlife, and a zero percent vote rating on the Animal Welfare Institute Compassion Index.

According to his obituary in the New York Times, the feeling and philosophical motivation of the entire body of Dr. Eiseley ’ s work was best expressed in one of his essays, The Enchanted Glass: “ The anthropologist wrote of the need for the contemplative naturalist, a man who, in a less frenzied era, had time to observe, to speculate, and to dream .” Shortly before his death, he received an award from the Boston Museum of Science for his “ outstanding contribution to the public understanding of science ” and another from the U. S. Humane Society for his “ significant contribution for the improvement of life and environment in this country .”

" According to the Humane Society of the United States, rabbits are also used extensively in the study of bronchial asthma, stroke prevention treatments, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and cancer.

According to Adam Goldfarb, the director of the Pets At Risk program for the Humane Society of the United States, " Potbellied pigs are really emblematic of what happens to an animal when it becomes a popular or fad pet.

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

According to academic Corey Robin: " Hayek admired Pinochet's Chile so much that he decided to hold a meeting of his Mont Pelerin Society in Viña del Mar, the seaside resort where the coup against Allende was planned.

According to the Society for Industrial / Organizational Psychology web site ( www. siop. org ), current salary expectations in the field of industrial and organizational psychology depend on degree level and years of experience, with the starting wage for a Master's degree graduate being approximately $ 56, 000, while a Ph. D. graduate can expect to start at $ 83, 000.

According to his wife Libby, his assignment was to infiltrate the anti-Communist John Birch Society and report his findings back to the FBI.

According to the Supreme Court Historical Society, 20 goose-quill pens, neatly crossed, are placed at the four counsel tables each day the U. S. Supreme Court is in session ; " most lawyers appear before the Court only once, and gladly take the quills home as souvenirs.

According to Turner's narrative, he urged — and Hobart agreed — that before its final deposit in the museum, the stone should be presented to scholars at the Society of Antiquaries of London, of which Turner was a member.

According to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS, Karl Wolff, it was also based on the model from the Society of Jesus of absolute obedience to the Pope.

The highest reliably reported jump for a galago is 2. 25 m. According to a study published by the Royal Society, given the body mass of each animal and the fact that the leg muscles amount to about 25 % of this, galago's jumping muscles should perform six to nine times better than that of a frog.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the number of reconstructive breast reductions for women increased in 2007 by 2 percent from the year before.

According to the China Exploration and Research Society, the source of the Yellow River is at 34 ° 29 ' 31. 1 " N, 96 ° 20 ' 24. 6 " E in the Bayan Har Mountains near the eastern edge of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

According to the Wilderness Medical Society, water temperatures above 160 ° F ( 70 ° C ) kill all pathogens within 30 minutes and above 185 ° F ( 85 ° C ) within a few minutes.

According to Mark Michael Smith of the Economic History Society: " although intrusive and oppressive, paternalism, the way masters employed it, and the methods slaves used to manipulate it, rendered slaveholders ' attempts to institute capitalistic work regimens on their plantation ineffective and so allowed slaves to carve out a degree of autonomy.

In the US, a physician specializing in anesthesiology typically completes four years of college, four years of medical school, and four years of postgraduate medical training or residency According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, anesthesiologists provide or participate in more than ninety percent of the forty million anesthetics delivered annually.

According to the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists, journalists should " make certain that headlines, news teases and promotional material, photos, video, audio, graphics, sound bites and quotations do not misrepresent.

According to the definition and principles of ecotourism established by The International Ecotourism Society ( TIES ) in 1990, ecotourism is " Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people.

According to the Anti-Slavery Society:

According to page 7 of the book Coraopolis, by Gia Tatone, Coraopolis Historical Society ( 2007 ), " The newspaper Frank Braden, Jr. uncovered was simply called the News and was published in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, on June 5, 1897.

According to the American Nuclear Society, using the official radiation emission figures, " The average radiation dose to people living within ten miles of the plant was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual.

According to the Connecticut Historical Society, the chapel was constructed in 1831 with funds from " benevolent ladies in Norwich, Hartford and New London " as a church for Mohegan and white residents of the reservation in Montville.

According to the Preston Historical Society, " Schools were built in “ districts ” to serve the local children, until two central schools, one on Poquetanuck and one in Preston City were built between 1938 and 1940.

According to the Seminole County Historical Society, it is believed that the name Iron City came about when a new well was being dug and hit a spot of iron ore.

According to the Rock Island County Historical Society, the first more permanently settled inhabitants of the Moline area are thought to be the Sauk and Meskwaki Indians, who founded the village of Saukenuk in 1720 along the Rock River not far from its confluence with the Mississippi.

According to the Ogemaw County Genealogical and Historical Society, West Branch was previously known as Logan's Mills in 1863.

According to the International Resource Panel's Metal Stocks in Society report, the global per capita stock of Copper in use in society is 35 – 55 kg.

According to the theory underlying odd-lot indices, the trader who trades odd lots is most likely a small trader, one who can't afford to trade round lots.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to an interview she gave to an Egyptian journalist, her first name was Yvonne, though she is referred to as Yvette in most published references.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

According to Hippolytus of Rome ( Philosophumena, VII, xxiii ) Theodotus taught that Jesus was a man born of a virgin, according to the Council of Jerusalem, that he lived like other men, and was most pious ; but that at his baptism in the Jordan the " Christ " came down upon the man Jesus in the likeness of a dove.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to one witness, " the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them.

According to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, " Problems associated with drug trafficking are potentially the most serious threat to stability in the BVI ".

According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13. 75 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the Universe.

According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

According to Grayson Lee, who created the snow penis sculpture in 2007, most of its residents were " heartbroken " to leave.

According to the Corporate Library's study, the average size of publicly traded company's board is 9. 2 members, and most boards range from 3 to 31 members.

According to the United States Census Bureau the city's area includes of land and ( 40. 83 %) water, most of it part of San Francisco Bay.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were " most certainly cannibals ", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight ; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body ".

According to utilitarianism, a good action is one that results in an increase in pleasure, and the best action is one that results in the most pleasure for the greatest number.

According to a 2004 French study conducted by INSERM, cognitive behavioral therapy was the most effective therapy when compared with psychoanalysis and family or couples therapy.