They worried that the country would become a junkie nirvana, that many neighborhoods would soon resemble Casal Ventoso, and that tourists would come to Portugal for one reason only: to get high.
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Drug experiment - Boston.com - 0 views
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If they legalize drug use throughout the country then everyone will go there to get high. With all due respect, that's the stupidest thing a country can do. but seeing how it helped about ten years later, i guess that was a battle they fought and won.
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System failure - The Boston Globe - 1 views
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a new poll showed that two-thirds of us favor "profound" changes in the way we finance and deliver medical care. Ready to meet that demand are all the leading Democratic presidential candidates, plus maybe a Republican or two -- not to mention officials such as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who think they can create plans for near-universal coverage like the one that just took effect in Massachusetts.
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Our universal view on health care is constantly fluctuating. We can never have one opinion about it. Every few weeks someone's opinion is now the opinion of everyone because he is well know "Educated" person. We can never have too much of one thought and we usually end up following those opinionated comments and "logical thoughts" of the educated and experts of this topic.
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A Payoff Out of Poverty? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Sample Chapter for Fung, A.: Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy. - 2 views
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In the months and years ahead, the parents and personnel of Harambee would attempt to advance their historical and cultural commitment to scholastic achievement through a variety of programs that included technology labs, prekindergarten programs, physical plant upgrading, curriculum changes, and a host of instructional innovations.
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Compared to other communities, tis community is workig together to better their situation rather than just their personal situations. By doing this, the whole community benefits rather than just one or two families.
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Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Steven Pinker - 4 views
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Today, such sadism would be unthinkable in most of the world. This change in sensibilities is just one example of perhaps the most important and most underappreciated trend in the human saga
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If someone thinks this way, in a pessimistic point of view, then yes we would be in the most peaceful time in history. But this peaceful time still isnt too peaceful because we have ongoing wars and genocides around the world. although i dont think we will ever reach a time period in which there is absolute world peace, one can think as this time being the most peaceful since we dont go about unnecessarily killing people, or even animals as they used to do in the 19th century.
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Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil - 3 views
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Visual reasoning usually works more effectively when relevant information is shown side by side.
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This made me think about the Chart Wars clip we watched. In that clip, we concluded that visuals are more effective to get your point across rather than words, but this article is saying that no matter how creative and appealing your visuals are, the audience will be bored if you haven't introduced an interesting topic for them. I think they both make sense, but personally I'm not too sure which one i agree with more.
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Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise: Scientific American - 7 views
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Why do people see faces in nature, interpret window stains as human figures, hear voices in random sounds generated by electronic devices or find conspiracies in the daily news?
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I usually find myself making weird figures from the clouds in the sky. Once you start thinking about something or noticing something in your everyday life, you start seeing these figures everywhere you go.
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Hans Rosling's new insights on poverty | Video on TED.com - 3 views
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Rosling stated that the only time he believes statistics is when it's "grandma approved." His use of charts and the numbers he put together allows him to tell his story. The fact that he mentions and shows the different lifestyles on the same street with the different pay per day shows the extreme poverty and the gap between the rich and poor in a country, specifically Africa in his example.
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Uzodinma Iweala - Stop Trying To 'Save' Africa - 3 views
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There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority. My mood is dampened every time I attend a benefit whose host runs through a litany of African disasters before presenting a (usually) wealthy, white person, who often proceeds to list the things he or she has done for the poor, starving Africans.
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Every time i see an ad or commercial about the white celebrities trying to "help Africa" a thought like this goes through my mind. I highly doubt that a celebrity with such high ratings in today's society truly wants to save Africa's poverty or starving people. I feel as if they do it more for the social attention and positive reputation rather than for their souls and well being.
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PublicAffairs Books: THE POLITICAL BRAIN - 8 views
The Trap - We Will Force You To Be Free (1 of 6) - YouTube - 2 views
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i find this ironic with the title of the video. "forcing" someone to be free is making them to do something out of their will; you are making them do it whether they want to or not. this is ironic because it says that people will be free/ think free, yet the title paradoxically states that you MUST do something, in this case, be free.
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What Makes Us Happy? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 0 views
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A survey asks you: “If you had your life to live over again, what problem, if any, would you have sought help for and to whom would you have gone?” “Probably I am fooling myself,” you write, “but I don’t think I would want to change anything.”
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i asked myself this question after reading this and i also answered the same thing. if i had lived a life like this, i would be pretty satisfied and i think most other would also. it is like living the american dream; living a successful, long, healthy life with your wife by your side, your kids and grandkids in your life. many people would have the same reaction, but most people wouldnt want to die falling down drunk.
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The endowment effect: It’s mine, I tell you | The Economist - 11 views
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once someone owns something, he places a higher value on it than he did when he acquired it—an observation first called “the endowment effect” about 28 years ago by Richard Thaler, who these days works at the University of Chicago.
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I had never really thought of this concept in this way before. Now that i think about it, i realize that i do this also. when i get something, i automatically, subconsciously increase the value. it's very interesting knowing that i can also relate to it.
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