Education Or Dinosaurs Salvage

In spite of the modern world claiming information is king, small isolated pockets of people still survive, who rely only on tradition and custom. Each group has its own unique language and ancient way of life. However, these groups are quickly being threatened with extinction, as was shown in UNESCO recently released comprehensive database of endangered languages.

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History of Deep Throat and Watergate

The Nixon Administration was rocked by the Watergate scandal which brought about its downfall in late 1974. The scandal was exposed by two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who covered the story for a period of two years. In 1974, they wrote a book, 'All the President's Men', subsequently made into an Academy Award winning movie.

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Let's Try Boiling the Ocean - A Strategy For Making the Most of Living Longer

Get beyond the ugly, deeply ingrained biases of ageism. Constantly revalue and hone the talents of every age and generation, and thereby set a new pace toward human progress. Introduce new attitudes and put new and old imagination into play in creating a more abundant and compassionate society. An opening strategy for making the most of living longer.

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Unseen Faces - El Salvador

Most tourism articles on El Salvador describe it as a place of beautiful beaches, wonderful scenery, and friendly people. While this is most true of El Salvador, it is also marred with poverty and suffering. Child labor is prevalent, as many young children need to go to work in order to survive, and often provide for their families.

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How to Overcome Barriers in Recruiting More Volunteers to Your Organization

We have all heard the excuses of why people don't volunteer. This article takes the most common trends (or excuses) and provides some very simple ways to overcome them. Just simply doing this will not only ensure that you you have more volunteers but they will be more satisfied with the experience and stay with your organisation longer.

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War on Drugs

If we are really winning the war on drugs, then why does it continue to grow? It seems we hear about so much drugs being found yet even more is still being distributed. Are we really getting the big drug places in Columbia and other countries or are we being given token factories to make it look like we are making a difference?

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What About the Children With No Parents?

Children of color make up more than half of the total number of children in foster care. When a Black child gets in the system of foster care, adoption is not likely due to economic struggles within the Black community. Families in the Black community can adopt and they do, unfortunately not at the rate that children of color are entering the system.

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Hong Kong Population Reaches the 7 Million Mark

The latest demographics show that Hong Kong's population has hit the 7-million- bandwidth. The figures in the year of 2007 were 6.96 million. The population of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK SAR) has officially been recorded as 7,008,900 at the end of the year 2008. These statistics were released on 16th of February 2009. And let me tell you what- 7 million figure is quiet an achievement.

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The American Indian Movement Blossoms and AIM-WEST is Born

The American Indian Movement has sponsored many actions, some controversial, but all intended to restore dignity for Native Americans and to change policy in government and local communities. These policy changes were all aimed to better serve native populations. AIM West is a branch of AIM that is blossoming around San Francisco. AIM-WEST is an important resource for Indigenous peoples in the Bay Area.

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Poverty - Who Are the Poor?

Every so often the news will cover a story about poverty or the poor. Yet no one seems agree, just what makes someone poor or how is poverty really defined. The federal government has their definition. Economic indicators, formulas and those that create or use them have another definition. We just can't seem to agree on a universal definition and then find a workable solution.

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Memorable Quotes From the Northwest Business Leaders Conference

Our nation is no doubt suffering from a national crisis. Economic down turns affect everyone, but if your business is on the verge of collapse then seeing the opportunity is next to impossible. Avoiding collapse means you must change, which under ordinary circumstances our human nature would resist. Hence, the crisis that forced your plight has actually created an opportunity that otherwise would not exist.

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Houston Fire Department - Saving the City From Fire Damage

Throughout the years, the Houston Fire Department has expressed that the residents of Houston must take a proactive approach in lessening fire damage. One concrete and simple way of doing this is by not placing candles near curtains or any furniture that is flammable. Another way is by making sure that fire extinguishers are nearby fire hazards such as the kitchen, laundry area and generators.

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Politics, Sex, and the Family

America was founded by thinkers, serious thinkers who struggled with new theories of how things ought to be, rather than resting content with how things were. They believed the old political relationships between the rulers and the ruled were falsely based on pretended rights of strength, wealth, birthright and tradition. They concluded that these connections were manmade rather than natural, and therefore were not morally binding.

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The European Space Agency is Looking For Spaceman Applicants

The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently recruiting twelve 'astronauts' for a 520 day trip to Mars. Sounds exciting right? A once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to Mars taking 250 days to get there, 30 on the surface and 240 to get back. Oh, and 105 days psychological analysis before and another 105 after. Exciting holiday! Or maybe it is the last out of this world thing you could imagine doing.

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Paris Gets Our Knickers in a Twist

The whole Paris Hilton prison term story has been so extensively covered in the print, broadcast, and electronic media that it has driven people across the world crazy. In fact, a Google news search for "Paris Hilton jail" will yield more hits than a similar search for stories on Gordon Brown becoming the Prime Minister. The in-court and in-jail antics of the blonde billionairess generated such a massive...

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The Value of Discernment - Part 2

It is accepted practice among propagandists (and marketers!) that a message will not get through unless it is repeated over and over. In fact, the dark actor Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, once said "[propaganda is] a carefully built up erection of statements, which whether true or false can be made to undermine quite rigidly held ideas and to construct new ones that will take their place."

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Lost Your Job? Surviving Redundancy

Losing your job is never easy because it is not only your way of making a living you have lost, but also your colleagues and your lifestyle. The current economic climate makes it even harder. Britain is at "serious risk" of entering a decade-long recession similar to that experienced by Japan in the 1990s, the outgoing deputy governor of the Bank of England, Sir John Gieve, has warned the nation recently.

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Economic Stimulus Checks - To Spend Or to Save?

To save or to spend -- that is the question. Spending, in deference to saving, helped get us into this mess. Since when does repeating what created or contributed to a mess clean up the mess? So much of the economic growth we've seen has been advanced by spenders who pumped their credit-driven and home equity-raped dollars into the economy. If we continue these patterns how can we possibly expect different results?

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Why Doesn't My Treating Physician's Opinion Matter?

When a doctor declares you are "disabled" and can no longer work, is the insurance company allowed to ignore his opinion? The Supreme Court of the United States has held that a disability plan does not have to give special weight to the opinion of the treating physician. The Court says nothing in ERISA or the Department of Labor's regulations mandate that the insurance company give any special deference to a treating physician.

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Jade Goody Dies of Cervical Cancer on Mother's Day - Is Jade Goody Really Dead?

Jade Goody dies of cervical cancer: We all knew it was only a matter of time that Jade Goody was doing to die, and yet now that the time has come, it has come as a major blow to the system. How did Goody herself depict "how long was a matter of time?" Did she see it as long enough to do the things in life she never had chance to do while alive.

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Becoming an American Citizen - What it Means

Becoming an American citizen means that you have chosen to be loyal to the United States of America and will have to live a life of "freedom" and "justice for all". If you were born in another country, or obtained citizenship in another country, or have allegiance or loyalty to another foreign country, you must relinquish it. Since you have now chosen to be a citizen of this country, this is your first home.

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Understanding Homelessness

Homelessness has been a much discussed and much misunderstood problem confronting our urban an rural communities throughout America as well as any other parts of the world. Estimates of the number of homeless people in the United States range from a low of 300,000 to several million. The problem increased dramatically in the United States during the 1980s as nearly seventy-five percent of the resources allocated by the federal government for low-and moderate-income housing were slashed.

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Our Economy Failing Or Prospering

As the future bears down on us our economy is looking weaker than before. Bailouts have been issued so that the economy won't go back into a depression. The government needs to look for a futuristic idea to make everything work out in the end. That idea is alternative energy, something that is based on future plans this has become something that all of us can look forward as a way to be bailed out.

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What Have I Learned?

Many students, at the end of the school year, when asked what they have learned, cannot come up with a meaningful answer. Hispanic students need modern English vocabulary and conventions, not obsolete English lit. Let's fund creative teachers and principals so they may experiment with new strategies and learning methods. The stimulus package may well be the help we need to revamp our public education. Are there any enlightened politicians in Washington and state capitols?

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Will Pharma Companies Win Against Economic Recession?

Hit by the tsunami of recessionary economy causing sales to dip and growth rates forecasted to fall below historic levels, pharma drug companies have hit the panic button and are trying out different ways in their quest to survive. Mergers & Acquisitions Pfizer's acquisition of Wyeth for US$68 Billion is a striking example. The company has acted to safeguard itself, owing to the plummeting revenues from it's popular drug "Lipitor" and several other products, which would soon be faced with expired patent protection.

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Costume Jewelry - Don't Let Those Old Items Gather Dust!

Women who love costume jewelry know that one of its greatest advantages is the affordability that allows us to experiment with a variety of styles, colors and themes. However, as with any new purchase, those beautiful new necklaces, bracelets, earrings and so on that you were so excited about eventually get old and wind up stuffed in the back of a drawer or the bottom of a jewelry box. Sometimes we just get bored with them and want to try something new.

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Municipal Opinion Surveys - Assessing and Enhancing City and Community Government Performance

Are you getting your money's worth for the property taxes you are paying for? Do your city's / town's mayor or city manager and council have an accurate understanding of how the majority of residents feel about the services they receive and about important issues? Are the municipal services provided by your city or town effective? This article presents the best way for your city or town to learn from residents about their satisfaction with services and important issues, conducting municipal opinion surveys.

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Agent Provocateur Creator Declines MBE From the Queen!

When you are given an honour by the British government it can come in several forms. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry which was established on 4 June 1917 by, the then King, George V. There are five classes of the order in civil and military divisions; in increasing order of seniority, these are: Member (MBE), Officer (OBE), Commander (CBE), Knight Commander or Dame Commander (KBE or DBE) and Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE).

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Prince William Shows His True Colours

Prince William has reaffirmed the notion that he is as caring and humble as his mother was, by spending a couple of days helping out at a charity hostel in Soho, London. William, who is currently a helicopter pilot in the RAF, helped out with the daily running of the hostel mainly as a kitchen helper but also turning his hand to cooking, cleaning of rooms and even helping with some of the resident's benefit claims. The charity who run the hostel are Centrepoint.

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India and Its Nuclear Power Policy

"If you come, with you; if you do not come, without you, and if you oppose, in spite of you, we go ahead;" said Veer Savarkar once. And exactly that is India's nuclear policy now. "If you help, with your help, if you do not help without your help and if you oppose, in spite of you, we shall go ahead with our policy" says India to the advanced nations of the world. It was with their help that India had launched its nuclear program.

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Suburban Retrofits For Post-World War II Subdivisions

Most post-World War II subdivisions suffer from houses that are too small for market strength. This article outlines an approach to retrofitting these suburbs to keep them viable. Architectural fixes for the homes, refurbishing shopping center and strip malls, increasing walkability, creating a downtown or hierarchy of centers, and finding the political will and bold, visionary leaders will be the keys to new life for these suburbs. If we can fashion these suburbs into attractive neighborhoods again, sprawl will suffer, but environmentally sound re-use will thrive.

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The Revolution Has Just Begun

We have a long way to move forward; we have a long way to fight; we have a long way to survive; but imagine what will happen if we and our aims replaced by machines or by latest scientific technologies and tomorrow there may be no necessity of us. Don't be panic, it is not going to happen now but as per fastest development in technologies also we can't deny the fact; sooner or later a day will come when we will be replaced by unconscious physical substance.

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India Wails in Villages

When do we mean when we say that India lives in villages? If we mean, our ancient heritage, rigid caste system, slow and event less life fare from the madding crowds, yes. If it is superstition, ignorance, illiteracy, poverty, also yes; India lives in villages, If it is scientific and technological innovations, industrial growth and comfortable living, no, India does not live in villages. Ask any doctor to go and set up his practice in a rural atmosphere. Even if you offer him attractive incentives and generous compensation, he will say no.

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Regret the Error Interview With Author Craig Silverman

Not much gets me as riled up as much as bad journalism does. The impact of bad reporting has lead to deaths, riots, cultural arguments, hatred, sorrow and certainly has helped the terrorist recruitment effort. We need to prevent the damage the media can, and does, inflict in this new world order. My very talented guest, Craig Silverman, founder of the non-partisan blog "Regret the Error" and author of several books, focuses on efforts to keep the media accountable and transparent. Let Craig explain more about his important efforts in this interview:

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Spanish Government is Prepared to Fund the Spanish Tourism

After lengthy talks the Spanish Government is prepared to fund the Spanish tourism for the upgrade and modernisation of hotels and accommodation to raise the standards to the same level as the more affluent hotels in the areas normally seen on the coastal regions to the tune of 500 million. 350 million has already been allocated to this project with great success so to keep up the momentum funding has been agreed by government officials and will follow shortly. The drive behind this decision has been generated by the increase of unemployed construction workers created from the ...

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How to Pull Girls With Little Effort

Why is it that a large percentage of men in the world fail to get anywhere with a women when they attempt to chat to them. What these ill-timed guys need is an established system that will demonstrate for them precisely how to pull girls with an incredibly high level of success. There are still those fella's however who can go into a bar or arrive at a gathering and before you know it they have a woman in tow, it's almost as if they know something you don't and if you want the truth, they do!

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Indian Beliefs and Superstitions

Is there any one in the world, whether he is Indian or European, who is absolutely free from superstitions? At one time or other, every one must have been a victim of such a baseless conviction, even in this age of science and scientific thinking. But the difference is only in degree. While the Indian lives in the magic spell of superstition from birth to death, others give in to them only now and then. One very important reason for any one to be a victim of superstition is the fear of failure or the anxiety about the outcome.

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Co-Operative Farming

More than four decades have passed by, and feeding the hungry is still a dream unfulfilled. One after another, we have seen 7 five years plan, come and go. Many a time, the planners, politicians and Prime Ministers talk of self-sufficiency -they talk of targets and achievements. But the common man who does not know anything of this high sounding verbiage is baffled to find even the groundnuts which the great Gandhiji called the poor man's staple food, cost him so much. Nor can he understand why the groundnut oil costs him so much while the imported palm oil costs so little.

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The Twain Should Meet

It was not merely because he was lured by the wealth of India that Mohammed Ghazni attacked India time and gain; nor was it his empire building ambition that was at the root but because he wanted to strike at the roots of Hinduism. Looting and plundering were only secondary. If it was only for the spread of Islam, as the Christian missionaries even now zealously do all over the world, one had no need to carry a sword in hand and adopt aggressive postures. Islam, with its stress on universal brotherhood does not need the services of a sword for its cause.

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A Thought on the Timber Utility Poles of Canada

Right now the Hydro and Utility companies have a program where they go round on a daily basis and renew the timber utility poles they consider no longer safe or suitable. This renewal process costs them on average around $7,000.00 per pole and much more if its a remote location or the pole has lots of fixtures on it. For every new pole, an average of three trees are cut down to get one suitable for making into a utility pole and yet, the all natural green technology is here to save their existing poles by doubling their life expectancy from its current thirty years. Why don't they change their ways?

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I Remember Terrence Johnson

There have been many events that have occurred throughout the 20th Century. Many that has happened before my lifetime, of course, and many during. The one that pops in my head at the moment is the disheartening life of Terrence Johnson. I believe this one sticks to me at the moment because it was so close to home. We followed it from the beginning to the end. We know and understand many of the situations that we as young black males have had and continue to have when dealing with officials. And, in many ways, it has effected our thoughts and perceptions when it comes to dealing with law enforcement.

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Family Planning in India

Pundits of social sciences have predicted that the population of the world doubles before the turn of the century and reaches 500 million mark. Even at half the strength, three fourths of the world's population lead a life of poverty and ignorance. For them, life is a continuous struggle for survival, and existence is but a burden. New morn does not begin with a new hope, nor the day ends with sweet recollections. The plight of animals is much better; when once their bellies are full they have no other care on earth, no worry about clothing or shelter; no worry about tomorrow. But these hapless people are born in worry and die in worry.

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Differences vs Similarities Between Reuters and Bloomberg News Services

These two wonderful companies work very hard at bringing you the best content in niche targeted topics. Yet, there are ways they do things which sets them apart from one another.

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Storage Locker, Sweet Storage Locker

The lack of available and affordable housing is causing people to seek shelter wherever they can find it. In many part of the country, people are living illegally in self-storage lockers.

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Social Stratification In United States

When we speak of social stratification we mean inequality between various groups of people. Inequality exists in all sorts of societies and cultures. Societies are consisted of layers that are hierarchical.

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Zou Tao, Hero of the Home Buyers Or Just Another Scammer?

Zou Tao, the guy who started the infamous "Don't Buy Houses for 3 Years" campaign is now famous again for his new Housing Wholesale Platform. Is he a hero or just another scammer?

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Make your Donations for philanthropic works

To help the children coming from backward families one needs to establish schools and to provide other facilities for free. And for that purpose, donations are needed to work towards that goal.

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While Diving For Hidden Treasure, Dumpster Divers Steal Your Life

While most people think the idea of going through peoples' garbage is disgusting, to an identity thief the reward is worth doing the dirty work for. The average victim is worth over $30,000.

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The Human Rights Without Water

Water is the very basic necessity of man but has not been included in the basic human rights.Including water in the list of rights a lot of problems can be solved.

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Boris Could Be Good For Builders In The Capital

The Mayor of London has a number of responsibilities which are critical to builders and developers. What does the election of Boris Johnson mean for builders and construction workers in the Capital?

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The Three Little Pigs and Political Correctness

Who knew that a classic story about three little oinkers could be potentially offensive? This is an overview of The Three Little Pigs and its stature in the hall of political correctness.

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Eighteen - To Drink or Not To Drink

Information regarding underage drinking is easy enough to find. The problem you might encounter is the data is often used differently by those who make claims either for or against underage drinking.

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