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... FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS OF WOMEN WITH HIV/AIDS With Specific Reference To Rural Tamil Na... ...o Gallup, NM 87301, USA e-mail: smarand@gallup.unm.edu Translation of the Tamil interviews by Meena Kandasamy H E X I S Phoen... ...enix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning ... ...1-800-521-0600 (Customer Service) http://wwwlib.umi.com/bod/ and online from: Publishing Online, Co. (Seattle, Washington State) ... ... ISBN: 1931233-96-9 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS Preface ... ...nt hospital is on the rise. While the doctors suppress the information, local politicians are not interested in ending the practice of child marriag... ...lves and the fact that it is only on the screen and not in real life. Unless politicians take up the issue for the women cause and see to it that m... ...year-old woman from the Aalancheri village in Uthiramerur town, Kancheepuram district. She is an agricultural labourer and an in-patient of Tambara... ...father-in-law and mother-in-law are dead. She hails from the Authur in Salem district. She had a son who died at the age of 8. She has a daughter w...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... .............................................................. 3 RECOGNIZING THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS ......................................................... ...CTION ................................................................ 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .................................... ... Arriving in Indus It was not far from Singaling to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, st... ... the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third Wor... ...ook some time before she was able to overcome that political faux pas. We politicians learned our lessons—do what is necessary to win and carry out ... ... ―Some Indian states have mandated a maximum of two children for some politicians and some states are extending the mandate to civil servants. A... ... ―Another approach has been taken in a pilot project in the Satara district of Maharashtra. Satara, funded by the National Rural Health Missi... ...remier on the Fareed Zakaria interview program on CNN Sept 29, 2008 14. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. ___ (2008) 15. Gonzales v. O Cent...

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...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? These...

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...er Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF ... ...riginally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 F... ...SSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION ... ...BLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTIO... ...SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTION OF IDEAS: A MICROPROCESS 12 FROM PROBLEMS TO SOCIAL ISSUES TO SOCIAL CHANGE: A MACROPROCESS 14... ...auses 14 SOME CONCEPTS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES 15 INCREASE IN CONCERN WITH IDEAS 17 From Inner to Other-Directedness 17 Voluntary Simplicity 18 SUMM... ...duals too lazy to think for themselves. It is also sought after, or should be, by politicians vitally concerned with the opinions of their constitu... ...s paid for the purchase! Once they have successfully sold the "Vote for me" idea, politicians produce and market a host of other concepts, in aspir... ...ed John Adams won the Republican nomination in New Hampshire's First Congressional District. Mr. Adams was an unemployed taxi driver who did almost ...

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who...

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...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 st...

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