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- 841: Environmental Crisis
- ... During the 20th century 3.9 billion people have been added to the world's population. This is an increase of 244%. Rapid growth occurred because of the improvement of living conditions, reduced child mortality rates and increased life expectancy. The population of undeveloped nations will continue to grow in the foreseeable future because at present 45% of the population is under 15 years of age. In the North the population growth is slowing down because children are considered an expense. In Italy, Germany and Austria, the growth rate is negative. The slowdown in population growth is a result of the lower fertility rates that have accompanied improvements in the quality of people's lives and the increasing use of contraceptives throughout the South. As peoples' economic well-being improves they tend to have less children. Future efforts to ... the Chinese population is officially projected to top the 1.3 billion mark. About two-thirds of this 900 million increase was added within the last 50 years, as mortality was reduced amid high fertility rates. The Chinese government has been moved by this "demographic affluence" to curb fertility. China's strategic demographic initiatives (SDI) were contrived out of this need. The government installed numerous measures for curbing fertility, embracing ...
- 842: Ben Franklins Autobiography
- ... make of the motives the author gives for writing the Autobiography itself? Franklin explicitly lists eight reasons (Lemay 1307-8): (1) his son (though anyone may become Franklin's moral descendant) may have a filial interest in the events of his ancestor's life; (2) Franklin has the time and ability to write a good memoir; (3) his moral posterity, desiring self-improvement, may want to imitate those actions, "suitable to ... captain of the kids' canoe and ultimately "a Leader among the Boys." Then, as leader of a project to build a little fishing wharf using stolen stones, Franklin learns his first lesson in balancing private interest with the public good. Remarkably, in organizing the transport of the stones, the young Franklin has put the public interest (in his boyish eyes) ahead of private property, perhaps also ahead of his own interests (he may be the best swimmer and boater, but it is left unknown whether he is the best fisherman). ...
- 843: Preventing Chronic Delinquency: The Search for Childhood Risk Factors
- Preventing Chronic Delinquency: The Search for Childhood Risk Factors Together, these findings on the characteristics of chronic delinquency suggest that one important way to decrease overall crime rates among youths is to prevent chronic delinquency, and that early childhood may be an important developmental period to target for its prevention. The remainder of this article explores how and whether chronic delinquency can be ... early family conflict. Finally, a risk factor may exert an indirect rather than a direct influence on development of delinquent behavior. For example, children who grow up in single-parent households tend to have higher rates of later delinquency, but this appears to be due to difficulty in providing adequate supervision, not single parenthood per se.13,22 Research studies have identified several examples of these sorts of complex interrelationships among ... Moffitt, T.E. The neuropsychology of conduct disorder. Development and Psychopathology (1993) 5:135-52. 21. Kolvin, I., Miller, F.J.W., Fleeting, M., and Kolvin, P.A. Social and parenting factors affecting criminal offense rates. British Journal of Psychiatry (1988) 152:80-90. 22. McCord, J. Some child-rearing antecedents of criminal behavior in adult men. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1979) 37:1477-86. 23. Abelson, W. ...
- 844: Comparative Analysis Between P
- ... Rico having the potential for oil mining. The Dominican Republic s population (over 7 million) is bit less than double the amount in Puerto Rico (about 3.8 million)[Age Structure][Dominican Republic]. Their birth rates are similar as well but the Dominican Republic s is slightly higher. Culturally they share similar backgrounds. Both countries have Black and Hispanic origins and the official language spoken in each is Spanish. They also ... never formally adopted but a movement gearing towards privatization had been in effect. In 1992, the Puerto Rican government sold a company that handled overseas telephone operations to Telefonica de Espana, but maintained a minority interest in the enterprise. Also at this time legislation was passed allowing the construction of public works (bridges, highways, etc.) by private enterprise. In addition, negotiations took place with private companies that provided co-generation facilities ...
- 845: The Ethical Delimma Of Journal
- ... of raping daughter has become a real criminal? Journalists need to be careful with the application of law as well as ethical values of their profession. Revelation of criminal name must serve to the public interest; otherwise journalists should find other news angle. Perhaps, newspapers should tell story as a man rapes someone lese instead or say that father has been found guilty, but identification is not approval in order to ... not anymore a criminal. In this case, journalists must gain permission from court before publishing E.B man detail. Sometimes the exposure of information might contradict with ethical values; hence, journalists need to consider public interest and work along with legal process. If information is useful, they have to inform the truth as a main principle of their profession. In conclusion, journalists might have to intrude privacy, if information was beneficial and it served to the public interest. Journalists must also consider the possibility of publishing information without any danger of an injunction; otherwise material should be cancelled. However, there would be some cases, which still lack of media law protection and ...
- 846: Indexing
- ... relatively large amounts of taxes while passive index funds generate relatively small amounts. Some of the resulting gap in performance caused by taxes would seemingly be narrowed if the federal government were to lower tax rates. Congress did this at the end of July 1997 when it reduced the maximum long term capital gains tax rate from 28% on investments held more than one year to 20% on investments held 18 ... taxes. Conversely, most investors would be more than happy to pay taxes on the returns produced by active money managers during periods of declining markets. Not many investors prefer losses to earning some gains and interest, even with the tax man waiting. The effect of so many investors buying index funds is that they tend to guard the money market. An investor could actually, in a cost-effective manner, buy and ...
- 847: Debt Free Prosperity
- ... as surplus to reduce debt that forces one to live on what is leftover. The fourth and final law is Training. This law deals with investing money after out of debt so it may earn interest and set one up for retirement. If a person invests their money wisely when they retire after working hard their whole lives, they could live off the interest alone depending on how much they invested in the first place. What is meant by the word training is that people should learn about all the different kinds of investments and which one or several ... so you can live off of less than you earn, then spend the difference to get out of debt and buy assets that appreciate. Pay yourself first. The fourth law: Discover the power of compound interest, learn investment strategies of stocks, securities, real estate, and develop a long term relationship with a financial advisor.
- 848: New Reproduction Technologies
- ... very interesting which led me to look at the impact of NRTS at another angle. After examining the issues raised in the debate I was left questioning why NRTS exist in the first place? Whose interest do they serve? Who won/lost and what was at stake? The reason I am focusing on these issues is because while I was reading the NRTS articles something stuck in my mind. In What ... still in the process of testing the procedures and, although it has been proven to work, they cannot guarantee that a successful implant will occur. NRTS failed to inform me about their risks and success rates, they did not ell me that after all of the procedures I went through to implant a fertilized egg (for example) into my uterus, the probability that one will develop into a fetus is not ...
- 849: The Rise and Fall of American Communism
- ... of the Great Depression. The underlying Communist theme of revolution brought with it the prospect of hope and better times for the financially and psychologically battered people of the United States. At the time, unemployment rates ran so high that workers were willing to turn to new political factions when they felt that the American government was not properly addressing the situation. The American Communist party was, in fact, the first ... the National Security of the United States. This Act gave the officials of the executive branch the ability to suspend or to terminate employees of the various departments when it was deemed necessary in the interest of national security. After the second World War, the American populace seemed to be in favor of demobilization and disarmament, but the Truman Administration sought to establish an atmosphere of crisis. The Truman Administration sensed ...
- 850: Uleashing The Killer App Book
- ... just one time, but every time. For example, Pointcast has turned a simple screen saver into a killer app by delivering content the user wants. Users can view their stock reports and other details of interest whenever the computer is not being used. Even the public utilities industry is getting on the bandwagon. The gateway proposition is a mass-customization strategy that will allow utility customers to monitor and measure power ... each other. Companies like America Online have recognized this and built technologies by which customers can communicate with each other. AOL has a "People Connection" service where members create their own rooms based on personal interest. This system has "Buddy Lists" that tell members when their friends sign on and off. Building New Connections The building new connections section is based on design principles 5,6,7 and 8. They deal ... more sophisticated. For example, if you have launched a web page, visit it often to make sure all the links are working and to add new features and update it as needed to maintain customer interest. It is not necessary to be a high tech company in California to take advantage of the internet, intranets, and other high tech media. BP saw a presentation from HP on standardizing desktops around ...
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