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...n some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read...

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...TRY OF SINGALING From one of the two most advanced countries of the world to the other. Singaling, just off the Malay Peninsula, tooled its ph... ...for the glass, wood, brick, and steel buildings which were the hub of the world's most prosperous nation. But what impressed me most was the cleanl... ... head start over Kino and is still leading the Asian derby in finance and trade. Again, the Asian intelligence and work ethic have pushed it far pas... ...e joys and challenges of parenthood. The liberation of women around the world has allowed them to run from their homes and compete with men in eve... ...or farmers, the conductors on busses, and many of the jobs of the building trades. Increased technology had given us better building materials and c... ...rs and carpenters were no longer needed. The same thing happened in other trades. Most printing jobs were done from a computer disk--not from typese... ...women‟s equality and democracy. Politicians, scholars and non-governmental organizations agree that social reform and democratization will improve th... ...ree women were stoned to death by warlords for working for a micro-credit organization. In India a social worker had her hands chopped off for couns... ...ay‟s prime Minister and her years as Director General of the World Health Organization. But she was an exception.” —“Women‟s relativ...

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...ntent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperialism, and they denounced the ?Krupp-Kaiser? alliance. But against such writing and such thought we had to count, in those d...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...tronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...lectronic transmission, in any way. In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ... by the phrase, “The League of Nations,” a phrase sug- gesting plainly the organization of a sufficient instrument by which war may be ended for ever.... ...ish Episcopal Church, nor any Nonconformist body has made any effort as an organization to forward this essen- 7 H.G. Wells tially religious end of p... ...elegated to look after cer- tain common interests, to deal with interstate trade, to deal 10 In the Fourth Year with foreign powers, to maintain a su... ...ith such possibilities inherent in it, must obvi- ously be the meeting and organization of a preliminary League of the Allied Nations. That point I wo... ...rt in this way fall under such headings as these that follow; restraint of trade by inju- rious tariffs or suchlike differentiations or by interferenc... ...t is we shall hear the drum patriotic loud in defence of the hu- man blood trade. Are we to hand over these most intimate affairs of ours to “a lot of...

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...ndifferent apartment in which the nervous and mental troubles of the outer world eddied for a time on their way to the distinguished special- ist. A b... ...good. All to the good. It prevented things being used up too fast. And the world was running by habit; the inertia was tremendous. You could take all ... ...l sorts of liberties. But all this is altered. We’re living in a different world. The public won’t stand things it used to stand. It’s a new public. I... ...this business in a cheap sort of way. She is like some pushful advertising tradesman. She isn’t frank with us; she just humbugs us into what she wants... ...ll either have built up such a fabric of apparatus, knowl- edge and social organization that we shall be able to manage without them—or we shall have ... ...ey haven’t told me, which is just as bad. I don’t believe they know. “What trade came here along these tracks? So far as I know, they had no beasts of... ...world is. Don’t you think so, Martineau?” “Well—yes—for its present social organization.” “For any social organization,” said Sir Richmond. “I’ve no d... ...on of the world they desired as a world scientifically ordered, an immense organization of mature commonsense, healthy and secure, gathering knowledge... ...e whole wide world. It was the good men of Bristol, by the bye, with their trade from Africa to America, who gave you your colour problem. Bristol we ...

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...y university. 3 H. G . Wells IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET BY H. G. WELLS “The World’s Great Age begins anew, The Golden Years re- turn, The Earth doth li... ...ions, and I read with a sympathetic envy every scrap I could get about the world of literature and the lives of literary people. It is something, even... ...nd partially realize these old and hope- less dreams. But that alone, in a world where so much of vivid and increasing interest presents itself to be ... ...er. The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump. The iron trade is going to have convulsions.” “I don’t care. Pot-banks are steady.” ... ...Such interludes seemed in those days a necessary consequence of industrial organization. “You’d better stick to Rawdon’s,” said Parload. “Ugh,” said I... ...I offered my services to a firm of private detectives, a sinister breed of traders upon base jealousies now happily vanished from the world, and wrote... ...tuation, but everything was so obviously aimless and foolish in our social organization that I do not feel disposed to blame myself even for that, exc... ...or was there anything to prevent the sudden frantic undersell- ing of some trade rival in order to surprise and destroy his trade, secure his customer... ... unreasonable,” complained Miss Ramell. Who could be otherwise in a social organization that bordered on insanity? I turned away from them, put my foo...

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...t of the United States. *Harper & Brothers’ note. 4 Why We Are at War I A WORLD LEAGUE FOR PEACE Message to the Senate January 22, 1917 GENTLEMEN OF ... ...e discussion of the international concert which must there- after hold the world at peace. In every discussion of the peace that must end this war it ... ...- hold it. But they owe it to themselves and to the other na- tions of the world to state the conditions under which they will feel free to render it.... ...n the belligerents will not satisfy even the belligerents themselves. Mere agreements may not make peace secure. It will be absolutely necessary that ... ...r resources may so far as possible be added to theirs. It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country ... ...achinery, as well as of the crops themselves when harvested. The course of trade shall be as unhampered as it is possible to make it, and 40 Why We A...

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...r the student of history or psychology, but for the intelligent man of the world. Its startling frankness gives it a peculiar interest wanting in most... ...eir felicity, it was the foundation of all my misfortunes. I came into the world with so few signs of life, that they entertained but little hope of p... ...ng: and in good health— the hands that opened my eyes to the light of this world may close them at my death. We suffer before we think; it is the comm... ...ice, was tolerably cheerful, and to make up for not having been taught any trade, could turn his hand to every one. Having proposed to establish some ... ...eals. Walking one morning pretty early in the ‘Contra nova’, I saw a young tradeswoman behind a counter, whose looks were so charmingly attractive, th... ...h I had not, and, as there was no lace on her livery, it appeared merely a tradesman’s suit. This was the unforeseen conclusion of all 80 The Confess... ...ly to enjoy our being, is the work of Nature, and perhaps a mere effect of organization, yet it requires situations to unfold itself, and without a ce... ... he never once abused her confidence. They seldom disputed, and their dis- agreements ever ended amicably; one, indeed, was not so fortunate; his mist...

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...ense 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. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 7...

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...M 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 Buil... ...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 Qa... ...TERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the... ...RORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law E... ...lecting on a Generational Challenge 361 12.2 Attack Terrorists and Their Organizations 365 12.3 Prevent the Continued Growth of Islamist Terrorism... ...tan p. 148 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed p. 238–239 The 9/11 hijackers p. 279 The World Trade Center Complex as of 9/11 p. 284 The World Trade Center radio r... ... 148 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed p. 238–239 The 9/11 hijackers p. 279 The World Trade Center Complex as of 9/11 p. 284 The World Trade Center radio repeate... ... 9/11 p. 284 The World Trade Center radio repeater system p. 288 The World Trade Center North T ower stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers ... ...cy, immigration issues and border control, the flow of assets to terrorist organizations, commercial aviation, the role of congressional oversight and...

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...Querulous melancholy— Vital zest is a pure gift— Loss of it makes physical world look different— Tolstoy— Bunyan— Alline—Morbid fear— Such cases need ... ...efs— Leuba quoted— Characteristics of the faith-state: sense of truth; the world appears new— Sensory and motor automatisms— Permanency of conversions... ...t goes with our English speech may more and more pervade and influence the world. As regards the manner in which I shall have to ad- minister this lec... ... the dispositions of the deity, theology and cer- emony and ecclesiastical organization, are the essen- tials of religion in the institutional branch.... ...individual transacts the business by himself alone, and the ecclesiastical organization, with its priests and sacraments and other go-betweens, sinks ... ...he insti- tutional branch entirely, to say nothing of the eccle- siastical organization, to consider as little as possible 37 William James the syste... ...ationality or class of men, or time in the world’s history, or against any trades or occupa- tions—not even against any animals, insects, or inani- ma... ...agging drays and running races, bearing children, and jog- ging about with tradesmen’s packages all remain as indispensable differentiations of equine... ... than a sort of su- pernatural clergyman interested in the congregation of tradesmen and others in Bristol who were his saints, and in the orphanages ...

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...as theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of ... ...or Dorothea! compared with her, the innocent-looking Celia was knowing and worldly-wise; so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues whic... ...ed by Dorothea’s objections, and was in this case brave enough to defy the world—that is to say, Mrs. Cadwallader the Rector’s wife, and the small gro... ...Bulstrode is Mr. Vincy’s own sister, and they do say that Mr. Vincy mostly trades on the Bank money; and you may see yourself, brother, when a woman p... ...ern men, and I don’t pretend to be. I couldn’t fore- see everything in the trade; there wasn’t a finer business in Middlemarch than ours, and the lad ... ...ay be for the glory of God, but it is not for the glory of the Middlemarch trade, that Plymdale’s house uses those blue and green dyes it gets from th... ...gain for a little while, and then continued: “I shall make Brooke have new agreements with the tenants, and I shall draw up a rotation of crops. And I... ...exposure after the re-estab- lished sense of safety came—not to the coarse organization of a criminal but to—the susceptible nerve of a man whose inte...

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...as theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might 4 Book I — Miss Brooke frankly include the parish of Tip... ...or Dorothea! compared with her, the innocent looking Celia was knowing and worldly wise; so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues whic... ...ed by Dorothea’s objections, and was in this case brave enough to defy the world—that is to say, Mrs. Cadwallader the Rector’s wife, and the small gro... ...Bulstrode is Mr. Vincy’s own sister, and they do say that Mr. Vincy mostly trades on the Bank money; and you may see yourself, brother, when a woman p... ...ttern men, and I don’t pretend to be. I couldn’t foresee everything in the trade; there wasn’t a finer business in Middlemarch than ours, and the lad w... ...ay be for the glory of God, but it is not for the glory of the Middlemarch trade, that Plymdale’s house uses those blue and green dyes it gets from th... ...gain for a little while, and then continued: “I shall make Brooke have new agreements with the tenants, and I shall draw up a rotation of crops. And I... ...f exposure after the re established sense of safety came—not to the coarse organization of a criminal but to— the susceptible nerve of a man whose int...