Hong Kong has been ranked as the world's freest economy for the past 18 years, a title bestowed on it by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank.
BBC News - Is Hong Kong really the world's freest economy? - 1 views
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Hong Kong's free-market credentials have long masked a more complicated picture than its model economy status suggests
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the introduction of a minimum wage
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Religious war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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" Lowest estimate Highest estimate Event Location From To Religions involved Percentage of the world population[21] 3,000,000 11,500,000[22] Thirty Years' War Holy Roman Empire 1618 1648 Protestants and Catholics 0.5%-2.1% 2,000,000 4,000,000[23] French Wars of Religion France 1562 1598 Protestants and Catholics 0.4%-0.8% 1,000,000 3,000,000[24] Nigerian Civil War Nigeria 1967 1970 Islam and Christian 0.03%-0.09% 1,000,000[25] 2,000,000 Second Sudanese Civil War Sudan 1983 2005 Islam and Christian 0.02% 1,000,000[26] 3,000,000[27] Crusades Holy Land, Europe 1095 1291 Islam and Christian 0.3%-2.3% 130,000[28] 250,000 Lebanese Civil War Lebanon 1975 1990 Sunni, Shiite and Christian [edit]Wars by religion"
China's internet: A giant cage | The Economist - 0 views
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THIRTEEN YEARS AGO Bill Clinton, then America’s president, said that trying to control the internet in China would be like trying to “nail Jell-O to the wall”. At the time he seemed to be stating the obvious. By its nature the web was widely dispersed, using so many channels that it could not possibly be blocked
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Just as earlier communications technologies may have helped topple dictatorships in the past (for example, the telegraph in Russia’s Bolshevik revolutions in 1917 and short-wave radio in the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991), the internet would surely erode China’s authoritarian state. Vastly increased access to information and the ability to communicate easily with like-minded people round the globe would endow its users with asymmetric power,
BBC - Ethics: Ethics of War - 0 views
When religious beliefs become evil: 4 signs - CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views
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se were just some of the signs that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, accused of masterminding the Boston Marathon bombings, had adopted a virulent strain of Islam that led to the deaths of four people and injury of more than 260
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I know the truth, and you don’t. On the morning of July 29, 1994, the Rev. Paul Hill walked up to John Britton outside an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida, and shot the doctor to death. Hill was part of a Christian extremist group called the Army of God, which taught that abortion was legalized murder.
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Authentic religious truth claims are never as inflexible as zealous adherents insist,” he writes in “When Religion Becomes Evil.”
Why Ending Extreme Poverty Isn't Good Enough - Businessweek - 0 views
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At this year’s spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF, the world’s global finance ministers signed up to an ambitious target for progress against poverty. “We believe that we have a historic opportunity to end extreme poverty within a generation,”
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As recently as 1990, more than two-fifths of the population of the developing world lived in extreme poverty, and even today, the proportion remains close to one-fifth.
Embedding Critical Thinking Throughout PBL_0 - 0 views
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A webinar looking at Critical Thinking approaches to Problem Based Leanring
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Watershed Project: Craft the Driving Question - YouTube - 0 views
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Watershed Project: Craft the Driving Question
BBC - Future - Science & Environment - Is world peace possible? - 0 views
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Psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker at Harvard University thinks it is completely conceivable that wars between countries might go the way of slave auctions, debtors' prisons and other barbaric customs.
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