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LA Biz Observed: Why stocks are really going down - 0 views

  • They have seized upon a fairly bad situation: a stunning number of defaults and foreclosures in the subprime arena, although just a small part of the total financial picture of the United States. They have then tried — with the collaboration of their advance guards in the press — to make it seem like a total catastrophe so they could make money on their short sales. They sense an opportunity to trick other traders and poor retail slobs like you and me, and they generate data and rumor to support their positions, and to make money. More than that, they trade to support the way they want the market to go. If they are huge traders like some of the major hedge funds, they can sell massively and move the market downward, then suck in other traders who go short, and create a vacuum of fear that sucks down whatever they are selling. [CUT]
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Tokio Hotel Biography, Information, Discography, Pictures, etc. - 0 views

  • TH have sold almost three million records & DVDs in Germany alone
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    How much they sold
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Britannica Online - Artistic Elements of Film - 0 views

  • story, direction, acting, camera work, and editing
  • In large commercial productions, however, these jobs are carried out by different individuals and production crews under the overall supervision of a producer.
  • A producer for a large studio may handle mostly the production and postproduction business of getting a picture completed.
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Holocaust Survivors: Audio Gallery - "Not Just One Man" - 0 views

  • I picture my father having to go into the showers.
  • Look at all the Germans, all the Poles, all the Ukrainians...so it is not just one man, and it is not just Milosovic either.
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    quotes from holocaust survivors, Jeannine Burk
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In Pictures: The 10 Biggest Cities Of 2025 - Forbes.com - 0 views

  • Tokyo, Japan Current Population: 35.2 million Projected 2025 Population: 36.4 million Annual Growth Rate 2007 to 2025: 0.11%
  • Tokyo is a major global financial center. Its rail system, the largest in the world, is clean and efficient.
  • Tokyo's water and electricity capacity is in fine shape for a growing population, experts say
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  • but industrial and household waste removal is a growing concern. Per
  • capita tonnage has doubled in the past 20 years, and finding urban space to build more processing plants has been a challenge.
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Auschwitz Picture - Prisoners' Orchestra - 0 views

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      orchestra!
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Auschwitz Picture - Execution Wall Next to Block 11 - 0 views

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      execution wall of Auschwitz
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Japan --  Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition - 0 views

  • Japan is a country marked by contrast between old and new. The country values its complex and ancient cultural tradition.
  • The islands of Japan form an arc that stretches about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from northeast to southwest.
  • Much of Japan's original vegetation has been replaced by farming or by plant species brought in from other countries.
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  • The burakumin (people of the village) are ethnically the same as the majority of Japanese. However, their ancestors were members of the former outcast class. The burakumin are often treated unfairly.
  • Shinto is based on the worship of local spirits in nature.
  • Japan has a rich and complex culture. Native Japanese traditions have been mixed with cultural styles adapted from China and, later, from the West. Japanese culture and art emphasize understated simplicity, elegance, and grace. For example, the traditional Japanese tea ceremony, flower arranging, and garden design are highly stylized and refined. On the other hand, contemporary Japanese society fully embraces Western-style popular culture—influenced by television, motion pictures, and advertising.
  • modern Japanese writers include Soseki Natsume, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Osamu Dazai, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, and Yukio Mishima.
  • Poetry plays a central role in Japanese culture.
  • The carefully composed paintings used few brush strokes to suggest a scene in nature.
  • Japanese No plays are generally short, stylized, and heroic.
  • Today the martial arts are more important as competitive sports and as aids to physical and mental fitness.
  • The Japanese economy grew remarkably throughout the 1960s, '70s, and '80s.
  • Historical records, however, show that Japan was not united as one state until the late 4th or early 5th century AD. It was ruled by the Yamato dynasty.
  • Meanwhile, Japan was developing trade contacts with the outside world.
  • By the mid-19th century the Tokugawa shogunate was unable to keep European and United States traders away.
  • A new government was established under the young emperor Mutsuhito, who took the name of Meiji, meaning “enlightened government.”
  • Japan soon sought to build an empire. It successfully fought a war with China (1894–95) and with Russia (1904–05).
  • The Japanese government believed that expansion through military conquest would help the economy.
  • Under the terms of surrender, Japan had to give up all the territory it had acquired since 1895.
  • Japan rebuilt its ruined economy, using new technology in every major industry.
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Panda bear pictures, information, facts - 0 views

  • same size as a Black Bear
  • 5-6 feet high
  • 276 pounds and males wheighing 10% to 20% more than females
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  • 25 years or more.
  • six small areas located in inland China
  • fifteen different kinds of Bamboo
  • 12 to 16 hours a day
  • 22 to 40 pounds of Bamboo each day
  • sold for $100,000 dollars.
  • pink when they are born.
  • 1,000 individuals in the wild.
  • 110 pandas in captivity
  • 20 and 40 lbs of food per day
  • 16 hours eating
  • eat other plants, fish, pika and other small rodents.
  • danger of extinction.
  • do not hibernate
  • born they are blind and very small
  • 3 to 4 1/2 ounces
  • start out with fine white fur
  • colored fur within a month of birth
  • eating bamboo by the time they are 5 to 6 months
  • one year of age, the cubs normally weigh about 75 pounds of bamboo
  • Female giant panda bears do not normally mature until they are 5 to 7 years
  • Mating begins in late-March and continues on into May
  • Females may mate with several males during the breeding season
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      about panda size
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      how to protect themselves
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      how they eat
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      fur
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      where their area is
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