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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...). More than 1 billion Barbies were sold by 1996. Mattel commemorated this event by manufacturing a "Dream Barbie". http://www.people.virginia.e... ... maintained as time passes? Woody Hastings, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois, noticed in the early 1960s that though the bacterial p... ...(musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in March 2003. It is based on the true story of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan, two ... ...ompetition. Less than one quarter of southern families owned slaves in 1861. Slave-based, mainly cotton raising, enterprises, were so profitable th... ...grams of fuel, 72 grams of chemicals and 32 kilograms of water are consumed in the manufacturing of a typical two-gram chip. A 32-MB RAM microchi... ...954 and The Nobel prize for Peace in 1962. http://www.nobel.se/ Nokia Some companies have at least nine lives, it would seem. Nokia was fou... ...ing the presidency of Warren G. Harding. It involved the secret leasing to private companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in ...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...ions. The original academic working title of my research project was , and based on the 1972-73 material, I wrote a book of the same title ( ), publis... ...ter the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the era of technology based on oil, and today's modern development culture was created. Now the f... ...y, too, there are many seamstresses' shops in the village, even a business manufacturing for export, and some tailor's shops. Specialized entrepreneur... ...at least seven cinemas, and it was also common practice for pharmaceutical companies to tour the villages with their cinema vans to show free films on... ...pects of Aging in Buddhist Northern Thailand. Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. De Vos, G. – Romanucci-Ross, L. (eds.) 1975.... ...b, Louis 1985. An Anthropology of Curing in Multiethnic Thailand. Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana. Graham, Henry M. s.a . Some Changes in Thai Family...

...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...free substitutes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experim... ...tes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experimenting with p... ... Sam Vaknin Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation The... ...ual removal of layers of content brokering and intermediation - mainly in manufacturing marketing - is the continuation of a long term trend. Conside... ...eviously imposed by the need to invest in costly "branding" campaigns and manufacturing and distribution activities. This trend is also likely to... ...ly given a bad name to whole segments of the industry (e.g., small, or web-based publishers). Consumers - inundated, disappointed and exhausted - wil... ...chael S. Hart is a Professor of Electronic Text at Benedictine University (Illinois, U.S.A.) and a former Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon Unive...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...shington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State IN... ...fron, the University. To renew call Telephone Center, 333-840O UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN m 02 m 08 APR 15 APR 1 8 CPASWF 87-0... ...uding inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers). Comparative areas are based on total area equivalents. Boundary disputes: Every international l... ...pital: Tirane Administrative divisions: 26 rrethet (districts) Legal system: based on constitution adopted in 1976; judicial review of legisla- tive a... ...rop), sugar, livestock Major industries: tourism 15.2%, construc- tion 7.7%, manufacturing 0.5% Electric power: 29,000 kW capacity; 63.8 million kWh p... ...Literacy: 94% Labor force: 16.8 million (1984 est); 15.9% agriculture, 24.3% manufacturing, 13.2% commerce, 11.5% transport and communications, 7.7% f... ...tors, estimated at $10 million annu- ally, provides for 10% of state budget; companies incorporated in Liechtenstein solely for tax purposes provide a... ...ncorporation rules have induced about 25,000 holding or so-called letter box companies, to establish nominal offices there; economy is tied closely to...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disp...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...a result, the structure of the book is designed to facilitate self-selection based on inter- est. The first three chapters and the conclusion provide t... ...nited States, does not see intellectual property as a claim of natural right based on expended labor. Instead it is a temporary state-created monopoly... ...r daily actions you scrupulously ob- served the rights—all the rights—of the companies that have interests in the texts, tunes, images of celebrities,... ...uld be made, but subsequent changes would be harder and harder as people and companies built their activities around the rules that had been laid down... ...s, we simply laugh. The “hacking” there consists of looking at the razor and manufacturing a blade that will fit. To say this is somehow immoral seems ... ...ith Related Documents 1783–1854, ed. Donald Jack- son (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962), 586). It is easy, in fact, reading this prodigious... ...urt issued a temporary injunction telling Static Controls that it must cease manufacturing generic toner cartridges that operated in Lexmark printers—...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

... Seymour H. Fine With Foreword by Philip Kotler Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TH... ...SS 14 Social Issues and Causes 14 SOME CONCEPTS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES 15 INCREASE IN CONCERN WITH IDEAS 17 From Inner to Other-Directedness 17 Vol... ... decision to proceed as though nothing had ever been written on the subject-a zero-based approach. The work takes as given the rich fundamental con... ...sed disparagingly to connote deception or distortion " (2nd ed., p. 1138). A zero-based approach assumes innocent-till-proved-guilty status for both... ...heir mission is nonprofit. The obvious examples are foreign airlines and shipping companies"). A Tangible-Abstract Product Dimension The second... ...) lists profit-making services such as those offered by travel agencies, insurance companies, purveyors of the performing arts and any items from cel... ...ion: origination the creation of form utility (by discovering, harvesting, mining, manufacturing, etc.); force-taking of utility without offering a p... ...as personally administered to several hundred households in a middle class area of Illinois. Following the survey, the experimental community was e... ...usade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Gwyn, Robert J. 1970. "Opinion Advertising and th...

...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? Th...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...o admit that Einstein’s famous prediction of the lunar eclipse of the sun was based upon a completely false premise. Here is a crude representation... ... for Everythingness to exist at all. Our Trialistic Universe came into being based upon pre-existing Dualistic Conditions which had to exist before... ...sed over and over: the repeating of these words was the first process of mass-manufacturing ever invented. Language duplicates the basic dynamics of... ... and Outer awareness. Science practices this double standard. So do lumber companies and mining companies, and chemical companies. Their adverti... ... natural resources cheaply to other countries? Do they allow other country’s companies to come in and take over their own hydroelectric power plants... ... universal symptom; but the universal root cause is civilization itself. Mass manufacturing and duplication is a human cultural disease! Not just i... ... happens when they become too happy? Look at what happened to the Mormons of Illinois. Look how Harlem was systematically destroyed when American ...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...IONS SEVERED Sudden Action on the Part of the Dartmouth Ath- letic Council Based on Langf Affair—False Re- ports in Papers—Baseball Games Cancelled Th... ... M. I. T. Lesser will study at M. 1. T. and then enter the profession of a manufacturing chemist. Linen is undecided. Loughborough will study law. McC... ...tune to say that the student-body on the bleachers should fulfil the hopes based on them for an unrivalled team, even though their part may not be as ... ...iiK Brerything np'to date piiac Straet, Williamttown Games with Michigfan, Illinois and Chicago Tlio WiliiamB bnsobail team leaves WilliauiBtuwii Tuos... ...succeed in sucli an isolated loco- tioii, and the impossibility of n largo manufacturing center here was clearly demonstrated. The only constructive a... ... campus, how much greater offence can be attributed to the light and power companies who invade Main street with unsightly poles and ponderous telepho... ...w York city, Mr. Barney was direc- tor in more than forty mortgage holding companies, trust compan- ies and mining companies. He was president of the ...

...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 1 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...nry S. Burrage, of Portland, Me., and to General Tho- mas J. Henderson, of Illinois. For various courtesies received, the editor is furthermore indebt... ... way until the spring of 1830, when his father “moved again,” this time to Illinois; and on the jour- ney of fifteen days “Abe” had to drive the ox wa... ...ed, and proceeded to carve out of its terri- tory a new and hostile empire based on slavery; when they flew at the throat of the nation and plunged it... ...e gladness to Lincoln’s heart than any other were the meetings held in the manufacturing centres, by the very operatives upon whom the war bore the ha... ...lost his horse at Dixon’s ferry and having acquaintance in one of the foot companies who were going down the river was desirous to go with them, and o... ... Weber’s most foolish affidavit, to prove that Talbott had been engaged in manufacturing it two months before? In another part of his address, Gen. Ad...

...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ...mouth only two and one half. An article in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empt... ...n 5 river in the old times, could have transferred a slave from Missouri to Illinois and made a free man of him. The Mississippi does not alter its l... ...lini, and the Emperor Charles V. were at the top of their fame, and each was manufacturing history after his own peculiar fashion; Margaret of Navarre... ...mills, machine shops and wagon factories—in brief has $1,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries. She has two railways, Life on the Mississippi ... ...ife I would have. Two miles away, several regi ments were in camp, and two companies of U.S. cavalry. When I learned that Captain Blakely, of Compan... ... teller. Not to seem partial, I made friends and told fortunes among all the companies garrisoned there; but I gave Company C the great bulk of my att... ...hey could do without—buy on credit, at big prices, month after month, credit based on the negro’s share of the growing crop; and at the end of the sea...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...o his already gathered constellations of those Western stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquered, Louisia... ... whole nation. It did not affect South Carolina otherwise than it affected Illinois, Pennsylvania, or even New York. The navigation laws may also have... ...t the colonels of regiments received large gratuities from certain railway companies for the regiments passing over their lines. Charges of a similar ... ...on of their coun- try, and have been willing to attach the stain which ac- companies the institution to the individual State which entertains it, and ... ...t very many examples among the officers. It is a cour- age self-sustained, based on a knowledge of the right, and on a life-long calculation that any ... ...ames of the persons charged with offenses. Whenever I have done so, I have based my statements on the Van Wyck report, and the evidence therein given.... ...ates so absolute an ignorance of religion as is to be found in some of our manufacturing and mining districts, and also, alas! in some of our agri- 3...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... experimental as to the principles on which it 4 Democracy in America was based. If they were true principles, as they were, the gov- ernment founded... ...0 miles, four whose course is from 800 to 1,000 miles in length, viz., the Illinois, the St. Peter’s, the St. Francis, and the Moingona; besides a cou... ...east true that in the United States the county and the township are always based upon the same principle, namely, that everyone is the best judge of w... ...e South took up arms in favor of free trade, simply because the North is a manufacturing and the South an agricultural district; and that the restrict... ... 3,400 inhabit- ants per square league, is one of the most enlightened and manufacturing parts of France. 350 Democracy in America I have lived a gre... ...stantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which all take part, but associations of a thousand other kin... ...t into an infinite number of parcels, so that it can only be cultivated by companies of husbandmen, will it be necessary that the head of the governme...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

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The Confidence- Man

By: Herman Melville

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State U... ...res- sion, than the fiction of depression; professors of the wicked art of manufacturing depressions; spurious Jeremiahs; sham Heraclituses, who, the ... ...ion of the di- vine nature, as with a right conviction of the human, that, based less on experience than intuition, it rose above the zones of weather... ...that, while to all fiction is allowed some play of invention, yet, fiction based on fact should never be contradictory to it; and is it not a fact, th... ...al. Reminded me somehow of what I’ve heard about Colonel John Moredock, of Illinois, only your friend ain’t quite so good a fellow at bottom, I should... ... a peach. But Indians—how the late Colonel John Moredock, Indian- hater of Illinois, did hate Indians, to be sure!” “Never heard of such a thing. Hate... ... confined to the fireside and table. But in our age—the age of joint-stock companies and free-and- easies— it is with this precious quality as with pr...

...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porte...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...In fact, the artist’s design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I convers... ...rks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insur- ance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring... ...cks of sea turtles. But these extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois. Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this is- land w... ...ose the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may h... ... upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natu... ...e fact that of all things of ill-savor, Co- logne-water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is the worst. I should like to conclude the chapter w... ...hich, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their th...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ... In fact, the artist’s design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I convers... ...barks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring... ...cks of sea turtles. But these extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois. Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this island was... ... 120 Chapter 26 Knights and Squires Men may seem detestable as joint stock companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may h... ... upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natu... ...nge fact that of all things of ill savor, Cologne water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is the worst. I should like to conclude the chapter w... ...hich, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their th...

...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvani... ...e work-able, do-able words, that brought forth fruits in the revolution in Illinois, and in the passage of the 3 Mr. Stephen Myers, of Albany, deserv... ...oon meet in another world, in a world where all distinctions, except those based on obedi- ence and disobedience, are blotted out forever. “Uncover yo... ... thinking and industrious ones of our num- ber, would employ themselves in manufacturing corn brooms, mats, horse collars and baskets, and some of the... ... their skin. Whatever may be said of the aristocracies here, there is none based on the color of a man’s skin. This species of aristocracy belongs pre... ...n of the people, and the threatened enactment of a law compelling railroad companies to respect the rights of travel- ers. Hon. Charles Francis Adams ... ...colored people out of the country. In look- ing at the recent black law of Illinois, one is struck dumb with its enormity. It would seem that the men ...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ass. Two reasons for this are given. The first is that the finances of the companies will not admit of a divided accommodation; and the second is that... ...ions through the immense Northwestern States of Michi- gan, Wisconsin, and Illinois, than which perhaps the sur- face of the globe affords no finer di... ...g the whole length of Canada in its route. It was originally made by three companies. The Atlantic and St. Lawrence constructed it from Port- land to ... ...wn; then to descend the river as far as the States of Iowa on the west and Illinois on the east; and to return eastward through Chicago and the large ... ... receiving back foreign manufactures on the best terms. But the North is a manufacturing country—a poor manu- facturing country as regards excellence ... ...s to us in so great a degree. It is the largest and most prosperous cotton-manufacturing town in the States. Cambridge is not above three or four mile... ...ress in North America, but such prolonged exist- ence and progress must be based on an acknowledgment of the necessity for change, and must much depen...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...eapons. Exercises were conducted to counter this threat, but they were not based on actual intelligence. In most instances, the main concern was the u... ...re in NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (also known as NEADS), which is based in Rome, New York. That morning NEADS could call on two alert sites, ... ...ss and terrorist enterprises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank accounts and nongovernmental institu... ...strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan’s cur- rency. Some of Bin Ladin’s companies ran short of funds. As Sudanese authorities became less obliging,... ...fa, a Khartoum pharma- ceutical plant, which intelligence reports said was manufacturing a precursor ingredient for nerve gas with Bin Ladin’s financi... ...stigation Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S.Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois CIA Officials Outline of the 9/11 Plot Jacqueline Maguire, Special...

... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...ainted with the Academy know that the corps of cadets is divided into four companies for the purpose of military exercises. These companies are office... ...t military post in the country at that time, be- ing garrisoned by sixteen companies of infantry, eight of the 3d regiment, the remainder of the 4th. ... ... from the co-partnership with Boggs, and, in May, 1860, removed to Galena, Illinois, and took a clerkship in my father’s store. While a citizen of Mis... ...en the election took place in November, 1860, I had not been a resident of Illinois long enough to gain citizenship and could not, therefore, vote. I ... ... remain in Jackson until he destroyed that place as a railroad centre, and manufacturing city of military supplies. He did the work most effectually. ... ... and did not know at what moment they might expect an eruption. I somewhat based my calculations upon this state of feeling, and expected that when th... ...ion to this rule, and the story of the apple tree is one of those fictions based on a slight foundation of fact. As I have said, there was an apple or...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow, the Pennsylv... ... evolved. Still, most people are now ashamed to admit that punish- ment is based on vengeance and, for that reason, various ex- cuses and apologies ha... ...nd nature of man. Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility. It h... ... also gave strength to the burglar and robber. America was fast becoming a manufacturing and commer- cial nation. The accumulation of property was gre... ...ndustry was rough work like quarrying stone, logging and the like. Later a manufacturing plant was located in the region. The Jukes early got a bad na... ...saves the situation; often luck alone compasses the destruction. Insurance companies know just when accidents will befall the insured. If a man lives ... ...fessional criminals are against the parole board. Speaking of the State of Illinois, I am sure that the parole law, instead of shortening the time of ...

...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of it...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ...for lasting good, what ever apparent advantages may be gained, which is not based upon eternal principles of right and justice. Our fathers decided f... ...naugurated as the President of the Confederacy two weeks earlier. The former Illinois Congressman had arrived in Washington by a secret route to avoid... ...during the past three years. The depression in all our varied commercial and manufacturing interests through out the country, which began in Septembe... ... quite possible that the farmers and the pro moters of the great mining and manufacturing enter prises which have recently been established in the S... ...upervision and restriction to prevent excessive issues of bonds and stock by companies owning and operating interstate commerce railroads. Then, too, ... ...f economic efficiency, at the same time differentiating between combinations based upon legitimate economic reasons and those formed with the intent o...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...arge or small summ’d, added up, In its eidolon. The old, old urge, Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles, From science... ...g running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from the cent... ... walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates. O the farmer’s joys! Ohioan’s, Illinoisian’s, Wisconsinese’, Kanadian’s, Iowan’s, Kansian’s, Missourian’... .... What do you think endures? Do you think a great city endures? Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steams... ...diers marching—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums! (The soldiers in companies or regiments—some starting away, flush’d and reckless, Some, th... ...ulletin, The Indian ambuscade, the craft, the fatal environment, The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism, In the midst of their...

...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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