Archive for November, 2006
November 30, 2006 at 12:25 am
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Searching for an up-and-coming ski destination where you can still find great powder and crowd-free runs? Look no further.
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Welcome to the Fisher Graduate School of International Business (FGSIB) Entrepreneurship Center. The Entrepreneurship Center is not yet an oficial center at FGSIB, but are in the start of being created. The first project in that is being done in order to
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter D. Parvaz was born in Iran but hasn’t lived there since childhood. In 2006, she returned to visit the first time in 22 years.
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November 29, 2006 at 12:31 am
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Shady Russian think tank (e.g. heavily involved with Yanukovich shenaniganry).
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PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). It’s open source built around an open format that any hardware vendor or software developer can use.
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For once let us try to think about a political convention without losing ourselves in housing projects of fact and issue. Politics has its virtues, all too many of them—it would not rank with baseball as a topic of conversation if it did not satisfy a g
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Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
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A repository of relevant information about how the PR practice is changing, a collaboration tool for PR professionals and people interested in the practice of public relations, an open space where anyone can ask questions, post ideas, or start a project.
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The Washington Poll is a non-partisan, academic survey research project sponsored by the University of Washington, Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race & Sexuality. The principal aim of the survey is to collect and analyze public opinion of registe
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November 28, 2006 at 12:27 am
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Political economy models of growth and public service provision stress the incentives of the elite under high inequality to under-invest in the human capital of the majority. Other political economy models stress that ethnic divisions will lead to low pub
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psiphon is a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family me
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November 27, 2006 at 12:24 am
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Here is the question: If Israelis truly crave peace and security—“the right to be normal,” as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert put it recently—then why haven’t they exhausted each and every opportunity for resolving the conflict? Why do Israelis conti
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Welcome to the Kentucky Highlands Project. It is our mission to record, preserve, and promote the culture and history of the eastern Kentucky Highlands. This site is the first stage in what will become a fully integrated organization dedicated to the uni
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MIT certainly has a reputation to be proud of, but its admissions department went a little over-board, I think. The first letter is an honest-to-goodness mailing from MIT, the second is one prospective student’s reply.
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Do varieties of welfare capitalism exist in the developing world? This analysis challenge scholars of comparative political economy and international political economy who treat the political economies of less developed countries (LDCs) as more or less id
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Be an author of the first networked book on business. Together we will write the book on how the emergence of community and social networks will change the future rules of business. Collaborate with authors from MIT, Wharton, and thousands of professi
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This web site is dedicated to one of the most unique sports evolving across America today. A sport that can truly be admired not only by young men, but also the rest of the guy’s who may have lost their 32″ waist line. Yea, that’s right… this is the p
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A growing number of Coloradans are setting their cars on fire, according to six years of data from state fire safety officials.
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ILEA is an environmental advocacy organization headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Like many environmental organizations, we are fundamentally motivated by a desire to save the maximum possible portion of Earth’s biodiversity, and to maintain a healthy
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The salesman came back with a lousy number, but I considered it. After all, we were negotiating for the Honda Civic Hybrid — a car so highly desired, he said, that the price simply can’t go lower. It was a line I had heard before, but I was pleasant. I w
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November 25, 2006 at 12:24 am
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November 22, 2006 at 12:23 am
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Welcome to KIMEP Unofficial website made by the students to facilitate discussions around KIMEP and shed some light to the events going on around it. Here you will find some reading materials that were published in media as well as some writings from some
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In the city’s only synagogue — a plain, one-story house transformed into a sanctuary — several women in shawls prepare to share a Saturday afternoon meal as they sit scattered along two pews.
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In 1934 the Soviet Government established the Jewish Autonomous Region, popularly known as Birobidzhan, in a sparsely populated area some five thousand miles east of Moscow. Designated as the national homeland of Soviet Jewry, Birobidzhan was part of the
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Valery Gurevich, the deputy governor of the Jewish Auto-nomous Region in Birobidzhan, Russia, spent days organizing the region’s 70th anniversary cele-bration. At the last minute, Berel Lazar, Chabad’s chief rabbi of Russia, informed Gurevich that he need
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Part of the ‘Russian Chronicles’ series.
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How are these for alarming statistics: With more students than ever applying to college—a full 1.2 million more last year than in 2000—not even flawless SAT scores can open doors at Harvard, which rejects one in four applicants with a perfect 2400. Is
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November 21, 2006 at 12:23 am
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Welcome to the new website on MDG Indicators. This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for the 48 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The data and analysis are the product of the wor
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I visited the one in Eminönü.
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Welcome to the CIC Historic Campus Architecture Project (HCAP), the first national architecture and landscape database of independent college and university campuses. This project presents information about significant buildings, landscapes, campus plans,
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Watch President Clinton’s critically acclaimed lame-duck video, in which a film crew documented how he spent his final days in office.
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November 20, 2006 at 12:22 am
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The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) consists of thirty-eight high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2004. Some of these samples have existed for
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The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) is a project to create and freely disseminate a database incorporating all available aggregate census information for the United States between 1790 and 2000.
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November 19, 2006 at 12:26 am
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Seattle is rich in good, independent coffee shops that offer free, or mostly free wireless access. This wiki is intended to be a guide to the best places in the city to huddle over a table with your laptop, a cup of something hot, maybe a pastry, and get
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WifiMug is a group of sister sites, collaboratively finding, documenting, and reviewing the burgeoning availability of independent coffee shops offering free wireless. Launched in Seattle’s rich cafe culture in October 2003, there is now an active Vancouv
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The Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program seeks better understanding of all volcanoes through documenting their eruptions — small as well as large — during the past 10,000 years.
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November 18, 2006 at 12:24 am
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PW: jello
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On April 7, 2006, the third anniversary of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, I drove south with Shia pilgrims from Baghdad to the shrine city of Najaf. The day before, on the same route, a minibus like ours had taken machine-gun fire in the Sunni town of Iskan
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The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point is pleased to announce the release of The Militant Ideology Atlas, an in-depth study of the Jihadi Movement’s top thinkers and their most popular writings. This is the first systematic mapping of the ideology i
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