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Alternative medicine — Alternative medical systems … Wikipedia
Alternative biochemistry — is the speculative biochemistry of alien life forms that differ radically from those on Earth. It includes biochemistries that use elements other than carbon to construct primary cellular structures and/or use solvents besides water. Theories… … Wikipedia
Alternative education — Alternative education, also known as non traditional education or educational alternative, includes a number of approaches to teaching and learning other than mainstream or traditional education. Educational alternatives are often rooted in… … Wikipedia
Alternative Minimum Tax — (AMT) is part of the Federal income tax system of the United States. There is an AMT for those who owe personal income tax, and another for corporations owing corporate income tax. Only the AMT for those owing personal income tax is described… … Wikipedia
Alternative culture — is a type of culture that exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures. These subcultures may have little or nothing in common besides their relative obscurity, but… … Wikipedia
Alternative comedy — is a style of comedy that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and 1980s [ [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/26/45/26 45piehole.html The Brooklyn Paper: SERIOUS FUN ] ] which would eventually go on to become mainstream in the… … Wikipedia
Alternative theories of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 — suggest that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, a Libyan agent who was convicted on 270 counts of murder for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, may actually be innocent. At the end of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial an international observer… … Wikipedia
Alternative giving — is a form of gift giving in which the giver makes a donation to a charitable organization in the recipient’s name, rather than giving an item. The idea of giving something to one person by paying another was invented by Benjamin Franklin as a… … Wikipedia
Alternative — Al*ter na*tive, n. [Cf. F. alternative, LL. alternativa.] 1. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. [1913 Webster] There is something else… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Alternative Investment Market — (AIM) A company s shares can become listed on the Stock Exchange or traded on the Alternative Investment Market which has less demanding entry criteria. The company s shares can be traded in the market at publicly quoted prices. The advantage of… … Law dictionary
