links for 2006-10-23
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While politicians continue to debate immigration policies, there is little question among baseball fans that immigrants have positively transformed America’s pastime. In the first comprehensive study of baseball and immigration, the National Foundation(tags: Baseball Immigration)
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Beating Bush is a novelization of real events. Most names have been changed. Scenes have been arranged and composed, based on many hours of interviews and the author’s own memory. It contains no invention or deliberate misrepresentation of fact–the b
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Some places on earth are simply too big to photograph: the Grand Canyon, the Great Wall, Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Those monuments don’t fit in any frame; they were made—by God or man—to overwhelm. You can visit them, snap some shots, but something(tags: Population)
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(tags: Health_Care)
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The U.S. population is projected to reach 300 million people today — and it will top 400 million by 2043. Lester Brown examines the myriad effects of a growing population — and concludes that bigger is not always better, as over-population depletes vi(tags: Population)
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Why isn’t Philadelphia Boston? Why does Boston prosper, people and businesses outbidding one another to get in, while Philadelphia languishes, with acres of vacant and underused property announcing the lack of local demand? Why does much of Boston look li
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Social democrats in English-speaking countries have frequently looked to Sweden and its neighbours as offering a policy model that combines economic prosperity with social equality. In recent decades this admiration has dissipated due to a sense that comp(tags: Australia)
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Working late at the office, you are loading some more paper into the printer when you suddenly remember you have run out of A4 at home. “Well,” you tell yourself, “I’m working overtime for nothing, so I’m owed.” Thus exonerated, you unlock the(tags: Crime_and_Punishment)
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All pairs of names generated by the individual names of nine historically important psychologists
were submitted as queries to the Google search engine. The resulting page counts were used to
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The documented history of the cosmopolitan Black Sea territory of Abkhazia was destroyed in war on 22 October 1992. Its Greek archivist is conserving what little remains, reports Thomas de Waal.(tags: Republic_of_Georgia)
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Tim King, author of Prospect’s France profonde column, asked a cross-section of French people to write a portrait of their own country in 250 words. The responses are in translation below. Click here to read them in the original, unabbreviated French. To(tags: France)
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We share a concern for the world’s poor and the tragedies they confront every day. However, I must respectfully disagree with the approach that your department for international development (DfID) takes to world poverty. I have similar concerns about ot(tags: Donors)
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(tags: Jordan)
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Asia is fast developing into an economic powerhouse, with China and India gradually transforming themselves into the new masters of the universe. Meanwhile, the West faces the prospect of losing the globalization game, as European labor is devalued — by(tags: Globalization)
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With container ships getting bigger and bigger, Panama wants to widen its often clogged canal. The planned expansion has triggered a dispute over the benefits and beneficiaries of global trade in a country where 40 percent of the population lives below th(tags: Panama)
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Few military jobs are as dull as barracks duty, where a soldier’s main requirement is to stay awake for hours on end, checking IDs and making sure everyone is behaving. To keep herself from falling asleep, Marine Cpl. Annette Kyriakides Spurgeon “doodled.(tags: Art)
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Universities must now accommodate seemingly contradictory demands for commercialisation, world-class research and mass education. Mats Benner presents six theses on the health of the Swedish system.(tags: Sweden Universities:Europe)
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On the rim of the war zone, a new Mecca of conspicuous consumption and economic crime, under the iron rule of Sheikh al-Maktoum. Skyscrapers half a mile high, artificial archipelagoes, fantasy theme parks—and the indentured Asian labour force that susta(tags: UAE)
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From Borges to Bruce Chatwin, the rich and moody literature of South America’s most European nation reflects its homeland’s squandered potential.(tags: Argentina)
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With 5 days having passed now since the announcement that Turkish author Orhan Pamuk had won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, sources in Ankara have begun to speculate on the reasons behind President Ahmet Necdet Sezer’s silence.(tags: Turkey)
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(tags: English_Language_News Turkey)
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In the age of the human growth hormone, the long ball has lost its romance. But watching Endy Chávez pull back a home run reminded me that baseball can still induce nostalgia and awe, that it can turn a cynic into a dime-store aesthete in the time it tak(tags: Baseball)
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(tags: Lebanon)
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Four studies examined and empirically documented Cultural Frame Switching (CFS; Hong, Chiu, & Kung, 1997) in the domain of personality. SpeciWcally, we asked whether Spanish–English bilinguals show diVerent personalities when using diVerent languages? I(tags: Languages Psychology)
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