10th Grade Research Project 2010

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.

Afghanistan was too weak to prevent the terrorism within its borders.

“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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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:

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,