The article gives some details about HR 669, a bill pending
in Congress which would make it illegal to sell ultra-violent video games to
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Media Violence-Video Games - 0 views
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A Boston Globe article examines arguments in a U.S. Court of Appeals case brought by the industry against a St. Louis County ordinance that restricts minors' access to violent video games
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Playing violent video games can increase aggressive thoughts, feelings and behavior, say researchers in the BBC News article
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Jihad in the Way of Allah - Islamic Scriptures Unveiled - 0 views
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Sahih Bukhari 53:353 records Muhammad as saying, "Allah guarantees him who strives in His cause and whose motivation for going out is nothing but Jihad in His cause and belief in His word, that He will admit him into Paradise if martyred or bring him back to his dwelling place with what he gains of reward and booty."
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The Qur'an is also very clear in this matter Q4:74 - Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fights in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.
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This verse calls for one who strives in Allah's cause and who believes Allah's words to perform Jihad. And what is this Jihad? It is the striving and motivation to go out and kill or be killed with rewards of booty or paradise.
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"Sahih Bukhari 53:353 records Muhammad as saying, "Allah guarantees him who strives in His cause and whose motivation for going out is nothing but Jihad in His cause and belief in His word, that He will admit him into Paradise if martyred or bring him back to his dwelling place with what he gains of reward and booty.""
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Shark fin soup alters an ecosystem - Page 2 - CNN - 0 views
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Shark finning is not illegal. Taiwan has no law against fins taken from international waters coming into its ports. However, Taiwan does have what it calls a "plan of action" that requires the bodies of the sharks the fins came from to be accounted for and not dumped into the sea.
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but identifying them and monitoring them and having a regulated fishery is virtually impossible."
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Taiwan is not alone. Shark finning thrives off weak regulations around the world and only a few countries demand that sharks arrive in port with fins attached.
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The fin is one of the most expensive pound-for-pound item from the sea. And the beauty about the fin is that it's very compact ... it doesn't take up your hull and you can make a lot of money from it,"
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ins can sell for $500 per pound, according to WildAid, which is campaigning for a global ban on shark finning.In recent years, Cocos Island has become another battleground in the fight to save the shark. Ads by GoogleShark Breaching and DivesGreat White Shark Breaching and Cage Diving Trips Gansbaai www.sharkdivingunlimited.com<<<123>>> We recommend You might like: Push begins to halt Pacific shark finning - CNN CNN.comSharks endangered by a bowl of soup CNN OpinionShark researchers study oil impact CNN USMan saves Australian woman during shark attack CNN World onmousedo
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Eating Disorders: Body Image and Advertising - HealthyPlace - 0 views
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Advertisers often emphasize
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he importance of physical attractiveness in an attempt to sell products
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In recent survey by Teen People magazine, 27% of the girls felt that the media pressures them to have a perfect body
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Researchers suggest advertising media may adversely impact women's body image,
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ads made women fear being unattractive
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this can lead to unhealthy behavior as girls strive for the ultra-thin body idealized by the media
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he average woman sees 400 to 600 advertisements per day
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and by the time she is 17 years old, she has received over 250,000 commercial messages through the media.
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Shows the average amount of media exposure girls have targeted towards them
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This constant exposure to female-oriented advertisements may influence girls to become self-conscious about their bodies and to obsess over their physical appearance as a measure of their worth
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but many more implicitly emphasize the importance of beauty--particularly those that target women and girls.
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Only 9% of commercials have a direct statement about beauty,
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ty, and the bodies idealized in the media are frequently atypical of normal, healthy women. In fact,
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The media is not only being exposed to girls who are well into their teens but young girls aged 10 or younger. - media impact has started spreading through age groups making little girls conscious about their weight as well.
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today's fashion models weigh 23% less than the average female
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a young woman between the ages of 18-34 has a 7% chance of being as slim as a catwalk model
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Women frequently compare their bodies to those they see around them, and researchers have found that exposure to idealized body images lowers women's satisfaction with their own attractiveness.
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girls reported in a
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Body Image Survey that "very thin" models made them
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feel insecure about themselves.
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Dissatisfaction with their bodies causes many women and girls to strive for the thin ideal. The number one wish for girls ages 11 to 17 is to be thinner
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Eighty percent (80%) of 10-year-old girls have dieted,
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Advertisements emphasize thinness as a standard for female beau
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One study found that 47% of the girls were influenced by magazine pictures to want to lose weight, but only 29% were actually overweight
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Research has also found that stringent dieting to achieve an ideal figure can play a key role in triggering eating disorders.
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Girls who were already dissatisfied with their bodies showed more dieting, anxiety, and bulimic symptoms after prolonged exposure to fashion and advertising images
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in a teen girl magazine.
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Nuclear Weapons Program - North Korea - 0 views
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Report on North Korean Nuclear Program by Siegfried S. Hecker, November 15, 2006 Richard L. Garwin and Frank N. von Hippel, "A Technical Analysis of North Korea’s Oct. 9 Nuclear Test," Arms Control Today, November 2006. North Korea’s Bomb: A technical assessment, FAS Strategic Security blog, October 16, 2006 Statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the North Korea Nuclear Test, ODNI news release, October 16, 2006 Korea and US Nuclear Weapons, FAS Nuclear Information Project, September 28, 2005 North Korea's Nuclear Program, 2005, Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2005. Visit to the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center in North Korea, Testimony of Siegfried S. Hecker, Los Alamos National Laboratory, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 21, 2004
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The Nuclear Threat Initative's North Korea nuclear profile Report of U.S. Congressional Delegation Visit to North and South Korea, May 30 - June 2, 2003 led by Rep. Curt Weldon North Korea's Nuclear Program, 2003, Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2003 North Korean Nuclear Weapons, CIA Estimate for Congress, November 19, 2002 North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program, Congressional Research Service North Korean Nuclear Program, U.S. State Department release, October 16, 2002 Text of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Text of the Agreed Framework
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North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program Larry A. Niksch, Foreign Affairs and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service, October 9, 2002 STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE U.S.-DPRK FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT Thomas L. Wilborn, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College -- April 3, 1995 [40 pages, 125 kb PDF] Assessing the U.S.-North Korea Agreement Masao Okonogi Joint Forces Quarterly Spring 1995 [215 kb PDF] The North Korean leadership is attempting to sell its outmoded baggage of the Cold War. Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) The Nuclear Potential of Individual Countries Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons Problems of Extension Appendix 2 Russian Federation Foreign Intelligence Service 6 April 1995 Nuclear Nonproliferation: Implications of the U.S./North Korean Agreement on Nuclear Issues (Letter Report, 10/01/96, GAO/RCED/NSIAD-97-8). N Korean Nuclear Arsenal By Lee Wha Rang, April 27, 1996 Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., "Exposing North Korea's Nuclear Infrastructure--Part One," Jane's Intelligence Review, 1 February 1999, p. 38 Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., "Exposing North Korea's Secret Nuclear Infrastructure, Part II," Jane's Intelligence Review, 1 August 1999 Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., "North Korea's Nuclear Infrastructure" Jane's Intelligence Review, 1 February 1994, 74-79
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The Agreed Framework signed by the United States and North Korea on October 21, 1994 in Geneva agreed that: North Korea would freeze its existing nuclear program and agree to enhanced International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards Both sides would cooperate to replace the D.P.R.K.'s graphite-moderated reactors for related facilities with light-water (LWR) power plants. Both countries would move toward full normalization of political and economic relations. Both sides will work together for peace and security on a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. And that both sides would work to strengthen the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.
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This site have a long well defined history of North Korea's Nuclear Weapon, and this has a lot of Resources that you can use for this Project.
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Australia Introduces Body-Image Standards for Fashion Industry: Glossed Over - 0 views
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Recommendations include disclosing and avoiding the digital enhancement of images; banning ultra-thin female models or overly muscular male ones, in addition to models under the age of 16 to advertise adult clothes; employing a greater diversity of ethnicities and model body sizes; eschewing editorial and advertising content that promotes negative body image through rapid weight loss and cosmetic surgery, and, for retailers, carrying a wider variety of clothing sizes that better reflects the demands of the community.
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“ultra-thin female models or overly muscular male ones”
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it should be that there is beauty in all sizes of bodies.
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“Fashion is for, generally speaking, women who are in good physical shape, who choose to take care of themselves.”
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So larger sizes don’t sell as well as smaller sizes…but she doesn’t stock as much larger-sized merchandise.
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The Entertainment Software Association - Industry Facts - 0 views
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The best-selling video game of 2007, "Halo 3," took in more revenue ($170 million) on its first day of sales than the opening weekend receipts of "Spider Man 3," ($151 million), the highest-grossing movie opening ever.
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computer and video games to meet the demands and tastes of audiences as diverse as our nation's population.
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Today's gamers include millions of Americans of all ages and backgrounds. In fact, more than two-thirds of all American households play games. This vast audience is fueling the growth of this multi-billion dollar industry and bringing jobs to communities across the nation.
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U.S. computer and video game software sales generated $10.5 billion in 2009.
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Sixty-seven percent of American households play computer or video games.
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The average game player is 34 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.
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The average age of the most frequent game purchaser is 40 years old.
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Forty percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (33 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (20 percent).
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In 2010, 26 percent of Americans over the age of 50 play video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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Forty-two percent of heads of households play games on a wireless device, such as a cell phone or PDA, up from 20 percent in 2002.
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Eighty-two percent of all games sold in 2009 were rated "E" for Everyone, "T" for Teen, or "E10+" for Everyone 10+.
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Parents who have children under 18 with a gaming console in the home are present when games are purchased or rented 93 percent of the time.
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Sixty-four percent of parents believe games are a positive part of their children’s lives.
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Implementation of New Economic Policy to Indian economy in 1991 | MBA Knowledge Base - 0 views
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Globalization means flow capital (finance in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI), technology, human resource, goods and service among countries. FDI is investment in real assets like automobile, consumer goods production, service sectors like insurance, telecommunication, air transport etc. Liberalisation means freeing the economic activities and business from unnecessary bureaucratic and other controls imposed by the governments. Privatisation or Disinvestment: Selling the government owned public sector enterprises to private industrialists and opening the government operating sectors for private investment.
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The Major areas of New Economic Policy 1991 are Fiscal policy reforms Monetary policy reform Pricing policy reform External policy reform Industrial policy reform Foreign investment policy reform Trade policy reform Public sector policy reform
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Fast food - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating,
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Many petrol/gas stations have convenience stores which sell pre-packaged sandwiches
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Street vendors and concessions