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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ... by the Almighty, or maybe even by Emily Post. It reminds me of a Norwegian professor who did some undergraduate work at Stanford University... ...irst then put the knife down and ate with the fork in the right hand. The Norwegian assumed that after a few weeks the ignorant Americans would foll... ...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp... ...cience confirms the empirical findings of our multi-million year descent to who we are today. ―As the human genome was studied ... ...ation a person belongs is by the laws of all nations closely dependent on descent. It is almost a universal rule that the citizenship of the parents...

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... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...nguillan(s); adjec- tive Anguillan Ethnic divisions: mainly of black African descent Beligion: Anglican, Methodist, and Catho- lic Language: English (... ...djec- tive Icelandic Ethnic divisions: homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norwegians and Celts Religion: 95% Evangelical Lutheran, 3% other Protest... ...n: 4,178,545 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 0.30% Nationality: noun Norwegian(s); adjec- tive Norwegian Ethnic divisions: Germanic (Nordic, A... ...sh (collective pi.); adjective British Ethnic divisions: 81.5% English, 9.6% Scottish, 2.4% Irish, 1.9% Welsh, 1.8% Ulster, 2.8% West Indian, Indian, ... ...sh (registered) Language: English, Welsh (about 26% of population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland) Infant mortality rate:...

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...e 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, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...the fiery deluge, for he went down head foremost; and in all respects, the descent had the air of a voluntary act. What followed? From every one of th... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...murderer knew all, could he see the open window above stairs ready for the descent of the journey- man, could he witness the life-and-death rapidity w... ... man in the house recognized at once the well- known initials of an honest Norwegian ship-carpenter, John Petersen, who had worked in the English dock... ...hunted through all sorts of tortures, yields a break- fast roll that (as a Scottish baker observed to me) is ‘not just that bad.’ Certainly not: not e... ... never said the thing ascribed to him here as any formal judgment, or what Scottish law would call deliver- ance, upon the ‘Hyperion.’ As to what he m...

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