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  • 1975 almost every big city was being visited for Concorde, proving its great reliability. Later, problems came up. The price of fuel went up and Concorde was now very expensive to use. So, its flights were dramatically decreased.
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Afghanistan: Five Years After 9/11 - 0 views

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  • Afghanistan was too weak to prevent the terrorism within its borders.
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      This nation grew weak because of the Soviet invasion and Western
  • “They began to kill Afghans,” Karzai said. “They began to destroy our mosques. They began to close schools. They began to insert war.”
  • Democracy arrived, he said, millions of refugees returned, and the country has embarked on rebuilding.
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  • “For all of us in this world to be safer, we must remove the need for groups, organizations, or state entities [to rely] on religious radicalism as instruments of policy,” he said. “Military action in Afghanistan alone is not going to free us of terrorism. Going to the sources of terrorism, where they get trained, where they get motivated, where they get financed, where they get deployed, is necessary.”
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      "He" - Hamid Karzai President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
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Economy of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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  • The economy of India is the eleventh largest economy in the world
  • India was under social democratic-based policies from 1947 to 1991.
  • Since 1991, continuing economic liberalisation has moved the country toward a market-based economy.
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  • A revival of economic reforms and better economic policy in first decade of the 21st century accelerated India's economic growth rate
  • By 2008, India had established itself as the world's second-fastest growing major economy.
  • However, the year 2009 saw a significant slowdown in India's GDP growth rate to 6.8%[19] as well as the return of a large projected fiscal deficit of 6.8% of GDP which would be among the highest in the world.
  • Goldman Sachs has outlined 10 things that it needs to do in order to achieve its potential and grow 40 times by 2050
  • Improve Governance Raise Educational Achievement Increase Quality and Quantity of Universities Control Inflation Introduce a Credible Fiscal Policy Liberalize Financial Markets Increase Trade with Neighbours Increase Agricultural Productivity Improve Infrastructure Improve Environmental Quality.
  • However the subsequent government policy of fabian socialism hampered the benefits of the economy leading to high fiscal deficits and a worsening current account.
  • ince 1990 India has a free-market economy and emerged as one of the fastest-growing economies in the developing world; during this period, the economy has grown constantly, but with a few major setbacks. This has been accompanied by increases in life expectancy, literacy rates and food security.
  • India is often seen by most economists as a rising economic superpower and is believed to play a major role in the global economy in the 21st century.
  • Policy tended towards protectionism
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1950s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • ot competition between the United States and the Soviet Union by the beginning of the 1960s.
  • By its end, the world had largely recovered from World War II and the Cold War developed from its modest beginning in the late 1940
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The Media and Eating Disorders - 0 views

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  • The media is constantly bombarding us with images of celebrities who have slim, and sometimes very thin, bodies.
  • often appear in magazines and on television looking thin, and sometimes even verging on emaciated.
  • Celebrities are scrutinised when they put on a few pounds as well as when they lose them.
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  • it is interesting to watch those who appear to 'have it all' put on weight and see how long it takes for them to lose it.
  • After a celebrity gives birth, the paparazzi usually follows her everywhere ready to snap her, so the whole world (which appears to be waiting with baited breath) can see how long it takes for her to lose her baby weight
  • Personal chefs, trainers, assistants, plastic surgery, beauty treatments, you name it; they have everything they need at their disposal to whip them into their desired size and shape
  • The resulting image of physical perfection that celebrities project is unobtainable for the majority of people
  • Dieting is one of the contributory factors in the onset of eating disorders.
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Anorexia: A Media-Borne Illness - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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  • he top shows watched by female college students: Gossip Girl, Project Runway, and America’s Next Top Model. Likewise for magazines: Vogue, Seventeen, and Allure.
  • The media I’ve listed contribute to shaping what society considers beauty. The common denominators are tall, desperately skinny women who look fabulous. It should come as no surprise the media is to blame for today’s artificial standard of beauty.
  • The constant bombardment of skinny models and diet plans will certainly have an effect on women whose bodies are just not meant to be that small.
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  • Low self-esteem and eating disorders are the side effects from the media’s portrayal of artificial beauty
  • as of 2004, 8 million people—7 million of them women—had an eating disorder (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, etc.).
  • According to the American Psychiatric Assn.’s Diagnostic & Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, people who suffer from anorexia typically have an underlying personality disorder and seek more control over their environment.
  • indicate that discipline and control, rather than thinness, were their true goals
  • 66% of Americans do not even come close to conforming to that supposed ideal. Meanwhile, less than 3% of the U.S. population suffers from an eating disorder
  • We know Barbie is anatomically impossible.
  • magazine covers featuring celebrities have been airbrushed,
  • blaming the media for eating disorders is a lot like laying the blame for underage smoking on TV characters
  • "over three-quarters of the female characters in TV situation comedies are underweight, and only one in 20 are above average in size.
  • Heavier actresses tend to receive negative comments from male characters about their bodies
  • 80% of these negative comments are followed by canned audience laughter."
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Terrorist Kiddies Brainwashing | Newsflavor - 0 views

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  • Even easier for Taliban, they kidnap many children from the places they raid and recruit them, willing or not
  • How do they develop this mentality? It is a very common war tactic, which is basically premature brainwashing.
  • children can easily be persuaded and once they are past the point of being naive there is no saving them. 
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  • he children who were kidnapped, they’re basically brainwashed in what they are told is “school”, but is really a training camp for future Taliban terrorists.
  • Some of these kids weren’t even captured, their parents sent them off with a Taliban representative who misleads the masses promising a place of education and stability, but they were really manipulating the masses and taking their children off to die,
  • . To the average person it just looks like a luscious landscape, with a lot of forest. To children from a desert that offers little to no creativity to thought, it looks almost like heaven. They want to be t
  • advantage
  • but to a child from this 3rd world country and terrain, it seems like something they can’t live without, which is why they are convinced to die for this cause Taliban instills into their heads.
  • tell the children that their lives are worthless, that if they serve the holy prophet and fight for the cause, en
  • dless things will be given to them after they die.  That the real life will only begin after they have died for the cause, the prophet, the extremist Muslim ways.
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How Mumbai's attackers were brainwashed - Rediff.com India News - 0 views

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  • Abdur Rehman Makki, the second-in-command at the now banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah, had spelt out the fundamentals of a fidayeen attack to the terrorists.
  • Attack the enemy and inflict heavy loss Force your way inside enemy territory, risking your life Attack a strong enemy in a way that he faces sure death Continue fighting until you attain martyrdom. This deed will earn you a place in paradise Backing out from jihad will attract the wrath of Allah.
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Dueling Teen Pregnancy Tales: Jamie Lynn and Gloucester High - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies — more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. [...] All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Then the story got worse. “We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy,” the principal says, shaking his head.
  • a sudden baby boom among students at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts, which Time Magazine says is apparently no coincidence:
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What Are Shark Fins Used for? | eHow.com - 0 views

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  • In Mexico, the use of shark fin is widely accepted as an alternative medicine for prostate cancer,
  • The Chinese use shark fin as a type of health tonic comparable to the consumption of chicken soup
  • high levels of mercury that are often found in shark meat can actually cause infertility,
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  • main ingredient in a delicacy that has been consumed in China since 960 A.D.
  • status symbol than a gastronomic delight
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