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Secrets of “the ’stans,” lands of raw beauty and uninspiring governments, revealed with help from a Kyrgyz novelist and an expert on militant Islam.
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Know When to Buy – Airfare Predictions: We help you decide if you should buy now or wait.
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It’s been suggested to us that we post ten simple switches you can make from Red to Blue. With the emphasis on “simple” or “easy,” a lot of categories are left out. It’s not easy to find Blue gas stations - Amerada Hess and Citgo are not everywhere. And y
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Sacred sites are the most loved and visited places on planet earth. Since prehistoric times they have exerted a mysterious attraction on billions of pilgrims from every region and religion. These holy places have the power to heal the body, enlighten the
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Using information the government has collected on noise levels within London, a map has
been plotted of the capitals most silent spaces. The map intends to reveal a hidden
landscape of quiet spaces and shows an alternate side of the city that would norm
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Hedonists, rejoice! A couple of Columbia University researchers have found that in the long run, people tend to regret having missed out on opportunities for pleasure — and they wish they hadn’t been so diligent about working. What’s more, our attitudes
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A Moore’s law for razor blades?
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Will Shortz’s crosswords are about to make him a word-nerd movie star. But Sudoku is making him rich.
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The appointment of the notoriously repressive judge Saeed Mortazavi to the United Nations’s new Human Rights Council is an international scandal, says Nasrin Alavi.
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New graduates of elite MBA programs flock to Wall Street during bull markets and start
their careers elsewhere when the stock market is weak. Given the transferability of MBA skills,
it seems likely that any effect of stock returns on MBA placement woul
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The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short-term effects of temporary labor
market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In
contrast, a vast range of alternative career models based
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The e-Parliament is the first world institution whose members are elected by the people. It links democratic members of parliament and congress into a global forum, combining meetings and electronic communication. Organizations, companies, journalists and
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Everyday, when Tehran wakes up.
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The European Coffee Resource
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Benjamin Disraeli and the politics of performance.
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While dieters are accustomed to exercises of will, a new English translation of Germany’s most popular diet book takes the concept to a new philosophical level. The Nietzschean diet, which commands its adherents to eat superhuman amounts of whatever they
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What goes into the luggage of some of the world’s most peripatetic travelers?
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A fascination with bookshops leads Sarah Anderson to this invigorating city to start her promotional tour in search of the best way to explore a country - through the literature it inspired.
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Elizabeth Gould overturned one of the central tenets of neuroscience. Now she’s building on her discovery to show that poverty and stress may not just be symptoms of society, but bound to our anatomy.
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Below is a ranking of the most courteous to the least courteous — 35 major cities included in RD’s Global Courtesy Test. Figures reflect the percentage of people who passed in each city. When multiple cities had identical scores, they are listed in alpha
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Most travel magazines focus on destinations, offering tips on where to go, where to stay, what to do. We started World Hum in May 2001 because we wanted to focus not on destinations but on the journey, on travel in the broadest sense of the word.
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Inside Beijing’s global campaign to make Chinese the number one language in the world.
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Welcome to Marjorie Chan’s ChinaLinks at The Ohio State University! Online since 24 April 1996, we have, as of 12 May 2004, moved to the current site, ChinaLinks.osu.edu! When time permits, this site will be restructured, but for now, the structure from t
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The genre of “strategic studies”—the name given by jihadi ideologues to their books and articles on the strengths and weakness of the jihadi movement and those of its enemies—had, until recently, been neglected by Western governments and analysts
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Every evening, as many as 40,000 children in northern Uganda hike for miles from their rural villages to shelters in town. These so-called night commuters are hiding from the Lord’s Resistance Army, a radical, religious paramilitary group that seeks to
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The U.S. Global Leadership Campaign is a broad-based coalition of nearly 400 businesses and organizations representing millions of Americans whose mission is to ensure continued global engagement and a robust U.S. International Affairs Budget.
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Andrew Sullivan on the harrowing new book “Oath Betrayed”, in which a medical ethicist documents how members of his profession got caught up in the abuse of prisoners.
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The New Democrat Network wants to harness an “efficient market for progressive politics” to launch a new kind of political venture. But could progressive politics prevail in such a market?
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If you want to know how the conservative message machine was built and what progressives can do to respond, just ask Rob Stein.
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Conservatives begin to infiltrate the left’s last redoubt.
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Info for over 2000 places in the UK covering Hook-up Spots, Skateboard Shops, Skateboard Spots, Record Shops, Musical Instrument Shops, Clothes Shops, Clubs (Dance Music), Music Venues, Cinemas, Arts Crafts & Head Shops, Games Shops, Bike Shops, Magazine
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ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.
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Chicago Professionals for Youth (CPY) supports non-profit organizations throughout Chicago working with underprivileged youth. CPY makes direct contributions and outreach support to organizations and initiatives which service children and youth in the fol
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Jobs For Youth/Chicago helps young men and women from low-income families become a part of the economic mainstream; and, in the process, provides the business community with motivated job-ready workers. Jobs For Youth is a free program for teens and young
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Urban Students Empowered Foundation (USEF) seeks to provide urban students with the resources and support to make higher education a real possibility.
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We examined the effect of an image of a pair of eyes on contributions to an honesty box used to collect money for drinks in a university coffee room. People paid nearly three times as much for their drinks when eyes were displayed rather than a control im
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I have always liked Star Trek. I watched the original show in the 60’s, waited eagerly for the first movie in the 70’s, and then later in the 80’s got hooked all over again on Star Trek: The Next Generation. It has been good television, good science ficti
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As older Seattle churches struggle to stay afloat, new churches are attracting urban hipsters with club-like venues, punk rock, and joke-filled sermons—and a social agenda that would make Jerry Falwell proud.
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It was all such fun until we realized that no business really uses game theory.
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Standpedia is wiki-style encyclopedia of controversy. It’s a place where tough questions are answered from a variety of perspectives, instead of a single ‘neutral point of view’. Standpedia users work together to build maps of controversial issues that e
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60 years ago a Kiev’s area witnessed some of the most severe battles of WW2. Covered with earth from explosions the humans, arms and ammunitions were left on the battlefields. With entering this site, you will join me and my friends for visiting a histo
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On this website you can follow the debate that followed the paper presenting the Simulation argument. The original paper is here, as are popular synopses, and scholarly papers commenting on the first paper, and a reply to these comments.
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The page is scaled so that the smallest thing on it, the electron, is one pixel. That makes the proton, this big ball right next to us, a thousand pixels across, and the distance between them is… yep, fifty million pixels (not a hundred million, because
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The best comments ever seen on Slashdot.