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jcoop11

New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • New Zealand comprises two main islands (called the North and South Islands in English, Te-Ika-a-Maui and Te Wai Pounamu in Māori) and a number of smaller islands, located near the center of the water hemisphere. The total land area, 268,680 square kilometres (103,738 sq mi), is a little less than that of Italy and Japan, and a little more than the United Kingdom. The country extends more than 1600 kilometres (1000 miles) along its main, north-north-east axis, with approximately 15,134 km of coastline. The most significant of the smaller inhabited islands include Stewart Island/Rakiura; Waiheke Island, in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf; Great Barrier Island, east of the Hauraki Gulf; and the Chatham Islands, named Rēkohu by Moriori. The country has extensive marine resources, with the seventh-largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world, covering over four million square kilometres (1.5 million sq mi), more than 15 times its land area.[5]
elligant35

Economy of the United States information - Search.com - 0 views

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      This page has the ecomony of the United States wrapped all in one. It links current policy trends of solving poverty with social issues, buying or consumer trends, history in deficit spending by the government, and the assistance provided by the government. This site talks about the inequalities of the minium wage and other statistics that are linked to global poverty.
kgarland

World Simulation Ideas - 95 views

I think it would be great to add more natural disasters, along with trying to bring out the slave trade, I think we could make the slave trade more part of the game. Also I think it would be great ...

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Lynn Dee

The Fonly Institute: Problems with the $100 laptop - 0 views

  • Despite the fact that neither the children, their schools nor their parents will have anything to say in the creation of the design, large orders of multi-million units are planned.
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      Have they asked the people who are getting these computers what they want, maybe they would have some new ideas that woudl make the computer keyed more to what they want and need rather than to match them to the upper middles class.
  • It would seem apparent that serious social research must be done to determine family, village and societal attitudes before proceeding with a program like OLPC.
Kendall

Expanded Academic ASAP Document - 0 views

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    This article is basically just one of the ways The United States of America is trying to end the labor of child prostitution.
tomorronow

The Catalyst is Iran - 0 views

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    Someone's blog about the threat of World War 3, the nuclear apocolypse, multinational control by banks, and the hope that the people will rise up.  Pretty silly towards the end with the taoist stuff, could have done without this to make it more credible.
Amie Mosier

united together on one day - 0 views

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    a way for all to get together and celebrate on one day-unify a day for peace. (ignore top comment-cannot take off from last site.)
Ryan Felber

The Case for Universal Health Care in the United States - 0 views

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    Universal healthcare in amerca
jcoop11

Global Healthcare in a Borderless World - 0 views

  • Since the early 1990s, institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have required state-owned hospitals and clinics in Third World countries to be privatized before loans are considered. Many times those formerly state-owned and -run hospitals were purchased by U.S. and European insurance companies that then introduced U.S. models of managed care, even though the history of healthcare in those countries was vastly different from the systems that had developed in the United States.
  • first systematic study of the relationships between globalization and public health policies.
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    " first systematic study of the relationships between globalization and public health policies " The relavence of the article lies in the previous statement. This is a rational look at how we are trying to solve the global healthcare problems.
chiefs100

Crime and Society Foundation - Articles - Media and crime - 0 views

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     An article about Media and Crime for the United Kingdom
bmoran

Carbon Sinks, Forests and Climate Change - Global Issues - 0 views

  • Over the past 150 years, deforestation has contributed an estimated 30 percent of the atmospheric build-up of CO2. It is also a significant driving force behind the loss of genes, species, and critical ecosystem services. However, in the international policy arena, biodiversity loss and climate change have often moved in wholly unconnected domains. — Climate, Biodiversity, and Forests, World Resources Institute, 1998
  • Carbon Sinks and LandA mechanism suggested for tackling climate change and warming has been the idea of using "Carbon Sinks" to soak up carbon dioxide. To aid in this, reforestation, or planting of new forests, have been suggested. This is a popular strategy for the logging industry and nations with large forests interests, such as Canada, the United States, various Latin American nations, and some Asian countries such as Indonesia.While there may be some potential in this solution, it cannot be effective on its own. This is because it legitimizes continued destruction of old-growth and pristine forests which are rich ecosystem and have an established biodiversity base (albeit shrinking now) that naturally maintain the environment (at no cost!). Creating new forest areas would require the creation of entire ecosystems. It is also criticized for being a quick fix that doesn't tackle the root causes effectively and doesn't lead to, or promote actual emissions reduction.
  • Environmentalists and others point out that the use of carbon sinks is a big loophole in the Kytoto Protocol; that if carbon sinks can be counted towards emissions reductions credit, then industrialized countries would be able to meet their commitments while reducing emissions by less than would otherwise be required. Because they are carbon sinks, it means that when forests burn or as vegetation naturally dies, they release more carbon too (because it is stored carbon). As the climate changes, it is possible that there may be more forest fires etc, releasing more carbon. (And then these sinks would become sources!)
chiefs100

Violent Crime - Crime in the United States 2004 - 0 views

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    Dept. of Justice and the FBI offical site on violent crime and crime trends
chiefs100

SSBR: Crime - 0 views

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    This is the whitehouses offical stats on crime in the United States
bmoran

Global Warming and Population - Global Issues - 0 views

  • Population and Climate ChangeA “Malthusian” theory about the relationship between population growth and the environment suggests that as populations grow, they will strip their resources leading to famine, hunger and environmental degradation.As detailed further in this site’s section on population, that is an oversimplification and has largely shown not to be true. Instead, it has been factors such as politics and economics (i.e. how we use our resources and for what purpose) that has determined environmental degradation or sustainability.For example, the world’s wealthiest 20% (i.e. the rich countries) consume approximately 80% of the world’s resources, while the rest of humanity shares the other 20% of resource consumed, as noted in the consumption section of this web site.In regards to climate change, countries with large populations such as China and India have not been the countries contributing greenhouse gases for the decades that has been required to trigger climate change, as noted further above.While in total amounts their emissions might be high (China is second largest emitter after the United States, for example), per person, their emissions are significantly smaller as noted earlier.
  • as countries such as China, India and Brazil grow in prosperity, there will be large populations with purchasing power, consuming more goods and services, thus making more demands on the planet.Indeed, many environmentalists have constantly noted that if such countries were to follow the style of development that the rich countries used and emulate them, then our planet may not be able to cope much longer.
  • researchers have found that depending on what variables you factor in, the planet can support an extremely large population, or an extremely small one. These ranges are ridiculously wide: from 2 billion to 147 billion people! Why such variance? It depends on how efficiently resources are used and for what purpose (i.e. economics).
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    This article shows that overpopulation isn't really a problem IF we learn to use our resources effectively.
elligant35

ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Rural Income, Poverty, and Welfare: Rural Child Poverty - 0 views

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      These bar graphs and other charts will show the significant difference in metro and rural areas for poverty in the United States. It also breaks down the demographics in race for those metro and rural areas for poverty.
elligant35

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/threshld/thresh06.html - 0 views

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      The U.S. Census Bureau defines poverty as as the size of the family unit and the dollar amount. If we look at the current trends, the U.S. Census Bureau recommendations is that a family of four is considered in a state of poverty if one person is working and bringing in less than 21,134. What's wrong with that picture? Is this assuming that a person is making above minium wage? The Global statistic says that 3 billion people live on less than two dollars a day.
elligant35

In Pursuit of Equity in Education: Using ... - Google Book Search - 0 views

shared by elligant35 on 27 May 07 - Cached
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      Links the United States poblem of race, education, and poverty to a lack of accountability by the government. The government did not even recognize they had a proble with poverty until the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. The structure of the government still has some inequalities that deal with race and poverty.
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