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- 221: Tobacco In Malaysia
- ... tobacco smoke is essential to public health. Besides human's heath, tobacco production has dangerous consequences for health of our planet as well. Global impact of tobacco production is on forest reduces; deforestation is reaching crisis proportions in some developing countries. The tobacco industry's biggest use of forest resources comes from curing tobacco. Tobacco is picked of a green leaf and must be cured to get the right taste and ... woodlands in the South have disappeared because wood is a major source of household fuel in Malawi, the scarcity of this resource become a serious problem. The area of all types of forest in most Asian and African countries are now below the level at which it is capable to meet current and future demand on a sustainable basis. Then, accelerating deforestation can be expected with potentially serious ecological consequences. Most ...
- 222: China's Economic Future Outlook
- ... in reforming centrally planned economy. I believe if China continues to improve its productivity, and the number of monopolies decrease as studies show, China will move into a capitalist front only to prosper. An Inflationary crisis within two years will test the government's reformist mettle: The 14th Communist Party Congress, set the official seal on the fourth wave of economic reform. Market Splintering: l feel that China should allow labour ... the more the retained earnings, the more the employees receive in bonuses, and that will make them work harder. A bracing wind is blowing through the open door: China follows the policies of its East Asian neighbours on foreign trade and investment. In 1978 China had an isolated economy, with a minimal share of world trade, commodities, especially oil which was China's main export. It has now blossomed into a ...
- 223: The Cold War
- ... crises such as the Bay of Pigs and the Science Race with the Soviet Union, but eventually they came out on top. The USSR took major damage from the crises such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and Berlin Wall, and eventually their economy collapsed and they converted to a capitalistic economy. Germany and the rest of Europe was a chessboard that the two powers played on. The U.S. was allied ... provided aid to anticommunist forces. Once Stalin threatened to take control of West Germany, Truman helped organize the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to establish an Independent West Germany. Nikita Khruschev provoked the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. He was on the leading board when the USSR launched Sputnik in 1957. John F. Kennedy was responsible for the Bay of Pigs, and helped his country regain its dignity though the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy was also responsible for at least a few assassination attempts on Fidel Castro of Cuba. Fidel Castro became Cubas dictator in 1959. Castro stood against the Bay of Pigs, an invasion from ...
- 224: Australia
- ... contrast, other animals drifted free with South America and Africa but became extinct when those continents encountered Northern Hemisphere landmasses that were home to predators. When Australia drifted closer to Asia 20 million years ago, Asian animal immigrants reached northern Australia across shallow continental shelves. Bats and rodents island-hopped. The dingo, a type of wild dog, came with migrating aborigines or Asian fishermen 5,000 years ago. Other creatures used the broad land bridges which surfaced when the expansion of the ice caps resulted in lowered sea levels, linking the Australian mainland with New Guinea and Tasmania ... Vital Statistics (rate per 1,000 population). Births--14.1; deaths--6.9; marriages--6.0. Life Expectancy (at birth). Males--75.4 years; females--81.1 years. Official Language. English. Ethnic Groups. European, aboriginal, Asian. Major Religions. Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity. MAJOR CITIES (1995 estimate) Sydney (3,772,700). Capital of New South Wales; oil refining; mercantile port; transport equipment; foods and beverages; fabricated metals; printing; chemicals; Opera ...
- 225: DEPRESSION
- ... stocks were sold at a great loss. One stock had dropped from one hundred dollars to only three dollars per share. The President and the bankers tried to assure people that there was not a crisis and that it was only a temporary situation, but they could not have been more wrong. When the stock market crashed, it upset the whole economy. Because the stock prices were so low, no one ... Thousands of employees had to be fired because the companies could no longer afford to pay them their salaries. Many factories, mines, and businesses were even forced to shut down due to the terrible economic crisis. When all of these workers lost their jobs, they could hardly afford to buy food or clothing, therefore, many of the stores were not making enough money to survive either. This caused more people to ... firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." He then explained that Americans needed to treat this crisis as if the United States had been invaded by some foreign enemy. On the same day as that amazing speech was the inaugural ball, but Franklin D. Roosevelt did not attend it. Instead, he ...
- 226: Tragedy In Genesis
- ... others which follows from our decisions and action. Education must help to create such sensitivity.@ People must be educated to be caring and considerate human beings. Since the world is in a constant state of crisis, every person must learn to view tragedy within the mundane. Instead of seeing themselves through the acting of actors, people begin to see themselves in relation to other people within the larger world . Tragedy can ... in perfectly defined terms. Instead, significant learning lessons supplant any previous conception of tragedy. Benne instructs his readers to see the tragic within day to day life. Benne states almost poetically that Aan age of crisis is an age of winter. Yet men who live in an age of winter must realize their humanity appropriately to such an age, if at all, for that is the only age in which they ... environment around them. Kaufmann would portray Genesis as tragedy averted. Benne, however, could see the episodes of the Book as tragedy in and of themselves. To Benne, any education derived from living a Alife of crisis= is tragedy!! In a way, Benne is the best exemplar of the Genesetic paradigm . A survey of the Book of Genesis will reveal that every protagonist encounters trials and tribulations, learns from his mistakes ...
- 227: Floating Exchange Rates: The Only Viable Solution
- ... has to be absolute or else pessimistic, self-fulfilling speculation will cause the collapse of the system. Unfortunately, the system isn't perfect. Again and again people write that as soon as this or that crisis passes over (Germany's reunification, for example), we will have economic and political peace and be able to fix exchange rates. But crises in Europe and elsewhere haven't ceased just because Hitler is no ... system settles down (Friedman, "Introduction" xxiii), but this bears some of the marks of the unrealistic optimism of people who seem to believe Europe and the world will be (after we resolve just one more crisis) forever peaceful and ready for unification. The biggest advantage of floating exchange rates is that they give each country control over its domestic affairs. Presumably, it knows best how to handle them, and it is ... and Weber 33), but how much money would be lost each year by sacrificing individual economies to the international "good" (as in the case of the European nations that fell into recession during the ERM crisis)? Besides, as the president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank said, "low inflation is the best assurance of exchange rate stability" (Lewis A24). Theoretically, intelligent domestic control of national economies will dampen currency ...
- 228: John F. Kennedy
- ... He was the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20the century. He served in World War II on PT boat. He also helped to solve the Cuban Missile Crisis and started Peace of Corps to help 3rd world countries better them selves. Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as president. Therefore, his achievements were limited. He was shot in the head ... Bay of Pigs). "In Cuba both the bay of pigs occurred, in which U.S. supported rebels revolted in a poorly laid out plan of events that fell out beneath them, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in which the Soviet Republic were building missile silos in Cuba, 100 miles away from Florida."(Encarta' 95). The Space Race was in full force with both Russia and the U.S. in competition to reach the moon during this time. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the world's largest approach to nuclear war. In 1960 Khrushchev decided to supply Cuba with nuclear missiles that would put the eastern United States within range of nuclear missile attack. In 1962 ...
- 229: Myasthenia Gravis
- ... an smile, the voice may be hoarse, the patient may need to clear his/her throat constantly. Neck flexors are often weak, causing a typical head drop. The most severe complication from MG is a crisis precipitating ventilatory failure. A precipitating event such as surgery, infection, or rapid tapering of immunosuppression, can usually be identified. Overdosage of AchE inhibitors can also cause respiratory distress. A good predictor of the patients respiratory status is the vital capacity, which should be monitored closely in a patient with suspected crisis. Intubation and mechanical ventilation may be necessary. Pathogenesis MG fulfills the criteria for an immune-mediated disorder: (1) the presumed antigen can be administered to an animal inducing a disease similar to MG, (2) antibodies ... Journal of Medicine 106(1) 97-113. January 1999 Qureshi AI, Choudhry MA, Akbar MS, Mohammad Y, Chua HC, Yahia AM, Ulatowski JA, Krendel DA, Leshner RT. Plasma exchange versus intravenous immunoglobulin treatment in myasthenic crisis. Neurology 1999 Feb;52(3):629-32 Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Volume XIV.2469-2472
- 230: John F. Kennedy: Foreign Affairs
- John F. Kennedy: Foreign Affairs The three main foreign affairs during John F. Kennedys presidential term were The Bay of Pigs, The Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Spread of Communism in South Vietnam. These were the main problems that the Kennedy administration faced. The Bay of Pigs was the first battle that John. F. Kennedy faced with communism and it ... the US Castro was seen as a major threat. Under former president Eisenhower the CIA had prepared a plan for an invasion. The Bay of Pigs ended up to be a fiasco. The Cuban Missile Crisis took the US to some surprise. The Soviet Leader , Khrushchev, approved the instillation of nuclear missiles in Cuba. An American reconnaissance plans discovered the missile sites in October 1962. On October 22, Kennedy revealed the crisis to the public. Within a week Khrushchev withdrew and took their missiles from Cuba, but only if the US would not invade Cuba. In South Vietnam, the communist insurgency showed no signs of letting ...
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