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He knew the earth experiment was still working even though the human-element component was running very much behind schedule. Tommy made a grumbling sound and slowly shook his furry head from side to side, crying, Wars, greed, jealousy, illnesses, unhappiness, dissatisfaction, obsessions for power - Its just not what I had expected! I know, but give it time. It will happen one day. The earth assignment is not as old as all the other projects we have...
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What a ride 2020 has been. And, we all know of the chaos and difficulty that it brought. But, in every tragedy, there is some silver lining, a station that seems like the end of the road that turns out to be only a pit stop on the way. So, perhaps we can start to look for ours. Because 2020 may have been a year of hardship and tragedy, but it's also been a year of growth, of learning, and of coming together to be the best we have ever been, not only...
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#1 I loved when Baba called me Ah-mun, a shortened, endearing version of my full name Yiu-man. I was proud of him, and I couldn't wait to get to the kindergarten every morning to learn to read and write like he did.
#2 The town of Shiqi, near the mouth of the Pearl River Delta, was the site of a kindergarten that I attended. The town was close to the South China Sea,...
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#1 The hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House, Will Menaker, Felix Biederman, and Matt Christman, combine their obnoxiously guy-ish humor with an aggressive and often insightful critique of centrist media figures and right-wing blowhards.
#2 The Chapo crew, like their non-socialist predecessors at The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, often got around to putting...
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Confessions of a Believer are colorful declarations put to words, describing my observations on a number of subject matters. It is an entertaining synopsis of my personal thoughts that may have the reader thinking outside of the box or challenging the way the reader views some aspects of life itself.
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#1 Churchill's speech was inspiring, but what he didn't mention was the struggle he had to get his plan accepted in the War Cabinet. It had been his plan to summon this extraordinary meeting of the Outer Cabinet, where his supporters were potentially vocal and actually numerous.
#2 The widespread perception is that Hitler was a fanatic who started a war and turned most...
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#1 Africa is a beautiful place, but it is also a dangerous one. The night is when the animals come out to play, and the locals rely on the night guards to keep them safe.
#2 The askari was guarding the boma, which was nestled under a large acacia tree a few hundred feet from the living quarters where Mother and Father were entertaining. The surrounding bush fell into...
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#1 The Way of Men is about being a man within a group of men. It is about what men want from each other, and it has always been about that. Men have always wanted to be accepted by other men, and The Way of Men is about that.
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The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn: intended as an appendix to "Observations on the corn laws" by Thomas Robert Malthus
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#1 The struggle many black women face is to figure out which way is up in a crooked room full of warped images of their humanity. Some black women tilt and bend themselves to fit the distortion.
#2 The play, For Colored Girls, was first produced Off-Broadway in 1975. It has sold more than a hundred thousand copies. It is a definitive artistic, visual, and poetic representation...
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#1 Conventional wisdom states that coercion is rare, but I demonstrate that it is used frequently and to great effect. I define coercive engineered migration as the cross-border population movements that are deliberately created or manipulated to induce political, military, and economic concessions from a target state or states.
#2 Coercive engineered migration...
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#1 The dark world calls to you constantly. You must learn how to resist it, or you will be swept up by it. This book is derived from many sources. The most important source is the burning desire to live that underpins everything a man must think, do, and be.
#2 The lessons above are your immediate entry into the dark world. They are skills with which you swim and lift...
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Book Preview: #1 In August 1914, four young British soldiers were lost in France. They had barely a clue as to their whereabouts, but knew that they were not supposed to be there. The war was not going according to plan.
#2 The British army was faced with a field-grey wave of three-quarters of a million Germans, who were chasing them down. The British fought with determination, then...
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Existe un poder adultocéntrico. Una forma particular de ejercer poder a partir de la negación de la coetaneidad, la precarización, la estigmatización y el aniquilamiento de la vida de las personas jóvenes. Contra toda obviedad, una sociedad adultocéntrica no es aquella que pone a "los adultos" en el centro, sino que se define por su funcionamiento: un sistema de enunciados y de prácticas sociales sedimentadas que relegan a las personas jóvenes...
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This book deals with protected area-people interface in Bori Wildife Sanctuary and Melghat Tiger Reserve located in Satpura range of Central Indian Highlands. These forests are mostly inhabited by Gond, Korku, and Thatia tribes, a small population of agro-pastoral community and other backward classes, which have moved into these forests from adjoining areas in search of pastures for their large herds of livestock. Bori in northern Sutpura has moist...
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Si plusieurs décollages économiques locaux, souvent fulgurants, ont permis aux régions de constituer 17 % de la population du Québec en 1960, celles-ci n'en représentent plus que 10 % aujourd'hui. La périphérie est demeurée économiquement immature, avec peu de diversification industrielle, et ce, malgré une extraction massive de matières premières livrées sur le marché mondial ainsi qu'une politique publique vigoureuse qui a contribué...
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#1 After the Berlin Wall was torn down, the German government was faced with demands that the communist officials who had ordered, executed, and abetted crimes against their own people be prosecuted.
#2 The Stasi, the East German communist police force, had more spies than any other totalitarian government in history. The Soviet Union's KGB employed 480,000 full-time...
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#1 I wrote, It is difficult to describe American government today. It is not a constitutional republic, because the Constitution has been and continues to be easily altered by a judicial oligarchy that mostly enforces, if not expands, the Statist's agenda. It is not a representative republic, because so many edicts are produced by a maze of administrative departments...
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#1 The twins were excited to show me that they are not actually brother and sister, but rather two ten-year-old identical girls. They wanted to know if I was married, since their mother is a married mother of four.
#2 When I first met Azita, she was a member of the new Afghan parliament. She had promised her rural voters that she would direct more foreign aid to their...