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- 381: Should the U.S. Government be Scared of Cyber Terrorism?
- ... be targeted. In a closed briefing to Congress, the CIA chief said at least 12 countries; some that are hostile to America are creating computer programs to attack other Nation’s information and computer systems. China, Libya, Russia, Iraq, and Iran are just a few that pose a serious threat to the United States. Only one of those countries would have to do is create a bug that would mess up ... United States was just a sideline effort, the team was actually trying to target the Pacific Command, which directs 100,000 troops who would be called on to deal with wars against North Korea or China. Out of several teams the FBI was only able to track down a couple of the teams. Over 63% of test attacks made on the Governments computer systems were not detected. Preventing hackers is like ...
- 382: Cannabis Sativa
- ... second time this year, Australia has been conducting hemp projects for several years now, Germany planted for the first time in the year (97) South Africa planted in October (97), Switzerland is growing hemp, and China already has hemp production facilities. Hemp in the U.S.A. however, is still being defeated by the law. "the public perception that marijuana is dangerous has vanished, and benefits of industrialization and legalization are ... used as painkiller and also helps reduce muscle spasms. No other drug has so many uses to it. Marijuana has been around for many years. "historians tend to agree that cultivation of hemp started in China thousands of years ago" (Stwertka 55). The ancient Chinese grew vast quantities of marijuana for its perfect weaving cloth. The Chinese had little regard for the plants mind-altering affects because altering the mind meets ...
- 383: The Turks And Mongols
- ... cultural respects to the Scythians. The six centuries, more or less, from 400 B.C. to 200 A.D., formed the period of greatness of the Hiung-Nu in Mongolia, during which they constantly harried China, and took possession of Chinese Turkestan. Despite their conquest, however, Iranian languages, and the mysterious Tokharian B, persisted in the towns until 800 A.D. or later. At length the Chinese took measures to rid ... inruption of hideous and invincible barbarians darting out of nowhere, as it at first appeared to the Byzantines and Romans. The Huns were a people who had been exposed to a high civilization that of China; they were cultured if illiterate, and in every sense the match of the frightened adversaries whom they met in Europe. When we examine the details of these invasions, we see that it was not one ...
- 384: The Atomic Bomb
- ... hydrogen bombs. “In 1945 the United States was the only country to have nuclear capabilities. The U.S.S.R obtained them in 1949, Britain in 52,France in 1960, the People’s Republic of China in 1964, and India in 1974.” (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia The Atomic Bomb Mar.99 CD-ROM NP) The United States Government and many other people regret having used the atom bomb. Many other countries have ... August 6,1945- uranium bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. August 9,1945- A plutonium bomb is dropped on Nagasaki 1949- USSR acquires nuclear capabilities. 1952- Britain has nuclear capabilities 1960- France has nuclear capabilities 1964- China has nuclear capabilities 1974- India has nuclear capabilities Bibliography Work Cited Page “Microsoft Encarta 1996 Encyclopedia”. Nuclear weapons, 1996 CD-ROM Manhattan Project- The Story Mar. 99 . Manhattan Project- Who’s Who Mar. 99 . Documentation ...
- 385: International Business - Coca~
- ... market for soft-drink had been growing rapidly (by 1990 a whole of 3 billion bottles a year consumption expecting to quadrupple during the 1990s. Furthermore India s population was expected to grow even surpass China and researchers have even estimated India to become an economic giant in the future as the worlds most poplated country which of course enhanced foreign investments as major sales are expected in the long-run ... result of negotiations. But probably they could have negotiated stronger on the employment factor in Punjab 25,000 and 25,000 some where else and the opportunities of foreign soft-drink producers entry allowance by China and the Soviet Union. ???????? 2.) In the light of later events, should Coca Cola have abandoned the Indian market in 1977? I would assume that Coca Cola did the right choice to abandon the Indian ...
- 386: Joy Luck Club: Nationality
- ... and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese- American daughters, I found out the answer to this question. The difference in upbringing of those women born during the first quarter of this century in China, and their daughters born in the American atmosphere of California, is a difference that doesn't exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story ... told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The mothers grew up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect ...
- 387: Harrison Bergeron
- ... in satirizing the American political system. Stanley Schatt notices this in his biography of Vonnegut, where he states that Vonnegut writes "political fables that satirize the American political and this country’s relationship with both China and the Soviet Union"(133). The people of this society take the notion equality to a level that could not even be feasible in any person’s imagination. In an attempt to make people equal ... would not be any free thinkers and no dreams to accomplish anything special. Vonnegut uses satire to mock the American political system. The idea of the American political system being compared to that of the China’s and Soviet Union’s is meaning how the system is much like that of a dictatorship. This is true since there is a head person, this person being the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers ...
- 388: Exporting Purell Hand Sanitize
- ... growth rate of the GDP has improved over the previous decade and now remains at 5.5 percent. Human life expectancy is 62 years for men and 63 years for women. This compares unfavorably to China or Sri Lanka, for instance, which both have life expectancies in the 70s. Mortality rates for children have fallen significantly since 1980 (17.3% v. 8.5%), however famine and poor health care remain rampant. India spent only .7% of GDP on health care in 1990-1995, compared with 2.1% in China and an average for South Asia of 1.2%. Because overall indicators for health and nutrition are poor, Purell would help reduce many sicknesses at a low cost to the people. Because access to health ...
- 389: Shannon Lucid
- ... they have always dreamt of going to the moon or to the stars. For the millions of children who dream this, only an infinitely small portion actually achieve this goal. In 1943 in war- torn China, a girl was born who had this same dream. Her name was Shannon Lucid. She was born in 1943 to a Baptist preacher, Joseph Oscar Wells and Myrtle Wells, a nurse. At 6 months of ... parents were sent to a prison camp by the Japanese. Only a year later were they safe in American arms after they were traded for Japanese POW's. After the war they went back to China, but in 1949 they were forced to leave when the communists took over. They then settled in Bethany, Oklahoma. She always had the dream that someday she would be a space explorer. People thought her ...
- 390: Review of On-line Publications
- ... a hybrid of broadcast, radio and print journalism but also establish them as the only medium that is using interactive reporting. Representing the continent of Asia and the city of Hong Kong is the South China Morning Post. It is one of only a few English language news papers in the republic. The post has an air of journalistic freedom the other news papers do not seem to have. One of the lead articles outlined this concern and dispelled the rumor that China would censor the paper when the city is turned over in July. The Morning Post is a very up to date paper that features an updated breaking news sidebar. A very useful and inviting feature ...
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