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...ay from home to the big city where he falls into trouble, then miraculously falls out again, and grows into a sturdy, well-liked young man. Like most people he is too busy living to notice that a relatively quiet revolution is taking place, replacing the government with a coalition of religious fundamentalists who have strong ideas on how their subjects ought to live, and ...

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...ted Fidel if he persisted in trusting strangers in this day and age. It was different when they were young—everyone was honest and reliable and young people were safe and… Predictably perhaps, their predictions of impending doom calmed Fidel’s nerves. Old people were always exaggerating—it couldn’t be that bad. When they let him out he thanked them profusely, waved them ...

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...It's a day to day account of travelling by car, through France, Portugal and Spain, with 2 companions. Encountering various people who helped us along the way, from one random adventure to another, playing football for a local team in Portugal, but ending up in Southern Spain and encountering the various ex pats who were trying to settle there....

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... done. ( I can’t remember If I ever went there, but it wasn’t far from Ralph’s bar, where I’d first met Nikki.) Plus John the Dog. Although I’d been living on the boat for about a month, on and off, we’d never left the marina and I was a bit taken aback with the first time we went out to sea. I’d thought I’d be used to it, but when we got out to sea and hoisted the main s...

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...and potentially efficient recommendations – non-systematic and systematic – by suggesting that both the public and policymakers focus not only on why people overeat, but also modify the environment and behaviors, redefine personal responsibility, and encourage corporate social responsibility. Finally, the author explores the outlook for eating habits and obesity in the Uni...

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...Why are four out of ten people living in the United States obese? There may not be a specific and definite answer to this question, but no one can say they’re not aware of this epidemic. While most of us may allege different causes that drive obesit...

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...…97 Non-Systematic Recommendations ………………………………………………………………………...97 Systematic Recommendations …………………………………………………………………………….107 Understanding Why People Overeat ……………………………………………………………..107 Modifying the Environment and Behaviors ……………………………………………………...113 Redefining Personal Responsibility ……………………………………………………………...119 Encouraging Corporate Social Responsibility ……...

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...Every human being is living a life, but how much humanity does he have? Birth, education, job, marriage, kids, family and at the end…death! Is this the standard cycle of life that has to be followed? What is the ultimate goal of such a life? Why ...

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...t’s more than can be said for a lot places. Istanbul? That was a real dead end, go nowhere, nothing much happening kind of scene. Compared to that, living in this little apartment is paradise. But by North America standards, it’s a dump and that’s all there is to it. I’m not really supposed to tell anyone anything about myself, the nature of what I do being so secret...

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...been bred specifically to be fully integrated into a mechanical body. On reaching maturity Grailem rebels against his creators and kills thousands of people. Forced into a spacecraft he is blasted into space where the spacecraft explodes and he spends an eternity drifting through space. Coming across an ancient alien race, who is more of a threat to Mankind than he ever wa...

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...exothermic, raising the temperatures. Grailem had considered these problems and did not blame the scientists for their errors. How could a scientist living in a three dimensional world imagine what energies and life would be like in a four dimensional world? Being kept a prisoner inside the spacecraft was certainly not the responsibility of the scientists involved in desi...

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...shment I will make sure she…’ ‘From what I can gather,’ the Principal interrupted sharply, ‘you perved, I think the expression is, on the two young people for some time before intervening. I don’t think that will look good on your reference when you're looking for another job.’ ‘You mean you’d…?’ ‘Yes. So take heed of your guru’s advice and forgive sins and nurture t...

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...g a darker side of life that many do not believe exists. The desire for money and power that the dealers crave is shown in this novel and the lengths people are prepared to go to obtain it. Mr S. Ansenn Chapter One Nicola looks down at the mess on the floor; torn cigarette papers, sweet wrappers, shopping receipts and what looks like dirt is now spread out on...

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...g this story to the world, with the aim of reaching 1 million (1,000,000) people around the globe. It excites me to think that 1million people will ... ...ily members’ names and ages and what their parents and partners did for a living. She knew of every project the team was involved with. In everyon... ... Jay felt sorry for Mark’s boys for growing up with parents who weren’t living together. It was a bit sad, like living with the failure of the re... ... red. Men like red. You are so pale, you should put some make-up on, so people will notice you. You don’t want to end your life a single old woma... ...didn’t know what it was that I loved doing,” Katherine was saying. “Some people can’t ask this question at your age,” the interviewer said. “I want... ...ince then, she had been interviewed on every major talk show, encouraging people to live their dreams. There were many stories of people, who manage... ...ce cream? It’s very nice. Food without the fat is tasteless. It’s like living without breathing,” said Katherine and gave Jay her ice cream. “Tel... ...eam. “Tell me, why eat ice cream if it’s tasteless? What’s the point of living, if there is no taste to living? Forget the weight, forget the cal... ... criticises it. There is freedom in this feeling, knowing you can make a living by putting your thoughts on paper.” Jay thought about her drawings....

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...r”. They cannot recognize themselves when they see themselves reflected in other people’s eyes and keep going, turning their backs on anything they ... ... turning their backs on anything they feel is too close. And who knows how many people have eyed their solitude, lurking in the dark to profane the... ...I used to say then, and my aspirations, so unusual for a little boy, would leave people wide-eyed in astonishment. I smile when I think that later, ... ... that it conditioned the minor choices that I was called on to make in everyday living. If there is anyone who has yearned so much for the future t... ...is just like that and then there’s someone in the town, in fact there are only people. My love is a madness of the heart responding to the soul. ... ... I thought you might not even have heard me. I usually don’t like to break other people’s silence, especially when I feel it is filled with thoughts... ...el infinity vibrating in me, lifting me out of my miserable existence. That was living, for me. And I asked for nothing better. “Two men, among a...

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...hood had to be more than having a heart attack from the stress of making a living and leaving all to one's widow, and old age, if it came, had to be b... ...oved in slow increments down the street was a fog that was embedded in all living things and all moved through it. An elderly woman was walking alone ... ...old her home was in summers with that air conditioner in the window of the living room on early into early morning chilling the house like an American... ...ng Sun. "How foolish you are. Grandmother. And a rich grandmother at that, living in an air conditioned house instead of a broiling shack on stilts in... ...n of such comfort to them as teenagers. Back then, before finding the dead people and each other, each of them had been wandering respectively through... ... and space to an examination of his self- absorbed ruminations on decadent living, no matter how critical and regardless of the domestic nature, like ... ...re it belongs out of the corners. This was his response to silence. - Why, people ask me are we, I, an archaeological anthropologist and you, a playbo... ...ory, analyzing them, and splicing them together like film; and as were two people walking down a sidewalk without looking at each other, who were and... ...es or being stripped of them. And as the door of the fitting room by which people came in to wear him and be worn by him never seemed to shut well, al...

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...e decibels! Israel’s typical noise level must be illegal in most civilized locales. People are very animated and amiable but there is something neur... ...ddy” – I said slowly, trying to convey the gravity of the occasion – “Who are these people? I came here by sheer chance. We wouldn’t be talking now ... ...ou see” – I patronized him – “I don’t have an appointment with anyone or any three people.” Eddy was on his feet, gun drawn, long before I ended ... ...e’s something on this disk that’s worth breaking the law for. Something on it makes people risk life and limb and assault perfect strangers. This di... ... “I gave him the documents.” “That’s better” – sighs Himmler – “I hate it when people force us to behave in manifestly un-Germanic and uncivili... ... found the little creep repulsive. The curious thing is that this extortionist was living in Berlin when he successfully bled Hitler, the omnipotent... ...end that nothing happened. I need to know the truth, Bauer. The truth. I have been living in an extension of Auschwitz since I was born. My mother a... ...ing to me as ‘the foreigner’. That incensed me. I told her that my family have been living in Austria and Germany at least as long as his, if not lo...

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...hing in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ephone clicked off. Sang Huin felt hurt. He felt a morbid clarity behind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chin... ...ing only in personal interactions? Was he nothing but the composite of other people's impressions of him? These impressions--these judgments-- could n... .... He locked the locker and felt "Honja" ("alone). Even among large groups of people he was alone. When he went to restaurants he was usually "honja," ... ...him here to the mokotong, as it had to Seoul or even to South Korea itself. People had come and gone out of his life in such a storm, and he was in a... ...anized and reorganized his few things in the loosely partitioned area of the living room and how he had been so reluctant to speak. Hadn't he, in his ... ... shielded only behind sliding doors. Behind the tables and the chairs, their living area consisted of just one space. A girl came out and he could see... ...cs and manic-depressives although she recently graduated to semi-independent living. For Gabriele, her intrusive presence often cut through the black... ... was hers. He would know that there was no purpose to being alive other than living and being grateful for life. Of course, in modern societies like I... ...re he was. He got up and opened his door. He saw the aisles of groceries. Living here, he thought, was like living in a storage area or a gigantic ...

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...Vol. 1: TripStone hates to kill her gods but she must feed her people. An accomplished hunter in the Masari village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punish...

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...magination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely ... ...n I had the chance. Once I had, I received constructive feedback from many people. Some read only small portions of the manuscript while others rea... ...ntually the hands on her ceased to be iron and once again became flesh. The people around her, distorted into demon lovers with boiling eyes and bes... ... her own faith in her ability to break free of the death grip on both their peoples. Since that day he hardly ever left the house, his shoulders per... ...time. Before Ata we were primitive and dumb as the beasts. We were the Dirt People. The story came to Zai unbidden. She tried to push it away, liste... ...h wash of guilt that seemed capable of killing him. It was possible to be a living sacrifice. TripStone had seen it. She had felt it every time she ... ...the trigger. Her own near-death had resulted in her father's sacrilege, his living hell. She drove the thought from her mind, running her bristle br... ...issa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant CHAPTER 6 Zai's brother Ila, her closest living relative, draped white linen about her shoulders, securing it aro... ...would not want the full measure to which he would be entitled were he still living in town. Even this small token would make him sullen— not so diff...

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...gathered to listen. Once, the looks on your faces inspired me to carry on living, as each night we travelled together through the latest chapter. I s... ...s the country, accompanied by the words ‘Do you know this boy?’ Streams of people came forward claiming to be Theo’s father, mother, uncle or best fr... ...ad become a minor celebrity. Letters and f owers poured in every day from people who had read about him or seen him on the latest chat show. Ben- ef ... ...it. He had chosen psychology in the hope that he might learn how to trick people into liking him. However, his mother had pushed him to specialise i... ...ating my f owers?’ Theo cried, snatching the vase away from him. ‘You ask people that when you f rst meet them?’ Bozo laughed, his tail beating from... ... herself a small cup of black espresso coffee and wandered through to the living-room in her nighty. The morning sunlight f ltered through the balco... ...s, many of them seeing each other for the f rst time, despite their close living quarters. One or two of them tried to crack a joke, but it was hard ... ...ey have to do is wait. Of course, there had always been Hoomans who made a living from reveal- ing the secrets of the future that were buried in the ... ...ll like melted gold on puffed up beds of clouds, and there wasn’t another living being in sight. 97 The Sandman ‘You know, it’s strange,’ Theo mused...

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...ents, or are used ficti- tiously, and any other resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entire... ... lots of ambition. Now, don’t get me wrong -- my folks were good God-fearin’ people and our farm was a great place to grow up for Mary and me, but ... ...the country around Green River, where he hunted just enough buffalo to make a living. Call Me Montana – The Beginning 9 In the course of our co... ...McVey lacked in leadership, he more than made up for in his ability to annoy people. So the rag-tag gang headed west alongside the creek. With no ... ...e Circle R that calling somebody out for cheatin’ at cards is fight’n words. People get killed doing that. This seemed to be true in Laramie as wel... ...om sayin’ it.” “Just the same,” responded McVey, “I don’t like it. Too many people showin’ up for no good reason. We go back for supplies in the m... ... hunt in no time at all.” Spirit seemed to understand. I wasn’t used to city living and I know he wasn’t, but we could take one more day of it. So,... ...y about Spirit, Daisy. He doesn’t like being tied up for too long. He’s still living the rich life down at the livery. And it’s good to see you, to... ...I was troubled that all the evidence was wrapped up in little Daisy, who was living at the Taylors. If Mr. Taylor knew that she knew about the wate...

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...ents, or are used ficti- tiously, and any other resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is enti... ...ichman 52 “Thanks Luke. I didn’t mean to pry but I always like to know why people leave places. Especially places where I just got a job.” “You... ...that got to do with horses?” “Fair Park is mostly a horse track. Every fall people from all over Texas visit Dallas to go to the Fair. There’s lot... ...isit Dallas to go to the Fair. There’s lots of stuff to do there, but mostly people go to see the races. That’s what Clint’s getting Whisper ready ... ...s impressed by Toby’s ability to read the tracks. I found out early that most people can see and follow prints, but readin’ sign is an art. The dep... ....” John E. Richman 124 “No problem, Montana. It’s your concern for other people that makes you special. Most cowboys would’ve jumped at my offe...

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... 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 them....

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...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... ...ease and cancer rates‖ 12 --―I‘ve sure learned something about living more healthily these last few days. But let‘s get on with why I cam... ...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... ...hey will nearly always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when peo... ...y family rate high. ―Some countries are beginning to study what people value—what are their beliefs and what really makes them happy.‖ 1... ...ther the church finds a compromise with the values that people seem to be living by or it will find itself outside the society. ---―I underst... ...being primary. My basic assumptions may shift depending on the value I am living. I may steal or shoplift because I want something. I may not murder... ... ―Another fact relating to our living only in the present is that we can‘t think of our own non-existence... .... Should I go to work right out of high school and start making money and living high? Or should I sacrifice the good life now, work to support myse...

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... 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 them....

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...consumer options are limited. ―In India family farming has reduced as people have moved to the cities. It has shrunk in size and quantity, and a... ...water. Shistosomiasis, caused by a fresh water snail, affects 160 million people. That‘s the disease that wiped out Napoleon‘s army in Egypt. Then in... ... arsenic from ground water. You remember that Bangladesh had millions of people exposed to ground water arsenic at 100 times the maximum proposed b... ...t clean water and over 40% don‘t have adequate sanitation.‖ ―Many people in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day... ...e gross domestic product had an annual growth rate of 6.4% and the people living in poverty dropped from 58 to 16%. This was the Chinese economic mi... .... It would be higher if more highly educated Indians would stay home, but living in England and the U.S. usually brings a much higher standard of li... ...y educated they generally leave. But in India, because of the low cost of living and the strong family traditions, many young people stay—even though... ... adults have state supported retirement homes that are more desirable than living with impoverished children. We have already adopted paid temporary... ...clinations. Possibly some can see that children will actually reduce their living standards. Possibly couples who really enjoy each other will realiz...

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...table for underground cities. But there is no place in our solar system as ‘people friendly’ as our own Earth.” —“What made you volunteer for the... ... in the cities. Here in California our population will double to 60 million people in the first half of this century. Most of this growth occurs bec... ...ulation, but of eliminating misery and increasing the ‘the good life.’ Some people ask why some should be so poor while others are so rich. Did you ... ...be so poor while others are so rich. Did you know that the thousand richest people have more money than the two and a half billion poorest people? ... ...dian per capita income. “Still there are more than a billion people living on less than $300 per year. With over a billion people being chro... ...dying from starvation, we have a long way to go to increase the standard of living for most of our human brothers and sisters. Then there are the pr... ...ite.” —“You must have hundreds of stories, having been born in LA and living here. But let’s get on with the interview. Let’s try to summarize... ...e with this many people, even if we significantly reduce our opulent way of living. We can dream the impossible dream with Don Quixote, the man of L... ... population control has come to many countries that have a high standard of living because of the people’s education and economic means. Their ethic...

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...ery difficult. When Kino fails in an experiment it doesn‟t affect a billion people, as it did in China under the communist dictators. Kino can move f... ...ritage, but a population crisis out of control. It had more than a billion people when I left Earth but it halved its yearly population increase. He... .... As the guest of honor I was seated by the President, the Minister of the People, and her husband. There must have been five hundred guests seated a... ...addies on the hillsides and in the valleys. In less than four decades these people had risen from a backward farming economy to perhaps the greatest ... ... grouse with oriental spices. I ate the whole thing. After thirty years of living on pellets and pills I would eat anything. But that morsel was deli... ...emnon attacked Troy, long before Abraham and Sarah—China is. As with every living organism, there are ups and downs, fits and starts, ebbs and flows... ...ewer people in our society. As the per capita income grew the standards of living became increasingly higher. ―It was not long before we had... ...ring pregnancy, the negative effects continue for the child or adult while living with the smoker. The smoking by an expectant mother is a highly ne... ...ction replaced hand work, society had to adjust. ―Ways of earning a living shift with the prevailing economic system. The number of workers r...

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...e is destruction of all anti peace world forces in attempt to convert this world into peaceful world. All nations live peacefully in the long run. People respect each other’s religious, territorial limits and social taboo. This Novel is an action and adventure based fiction and an attempt to make this world as joint peaceful global village free of discriminations of cas...

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................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE... ...ome close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-centered motivations. The difference, of course is that I believe that most people... ...bly heard, that‘s why we psychologists study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People... ...f our motivations.‖ —―Right. Hopefully with your psychological input and her ideas on values we can get a better handle on what makes people... ...dict without error what would happen in the future. So one of the West‘s great minds believed that we are merely going through the motions of living... ...reme being satisfies a deep psychological need for meaning in our lives and they give us answers to the unanswerable and enduring questions of living... ...lly forgotten so many things or do our ten billion brain cells merely hide many of our experiences so they don‘t confuse us in our day- to-day living... ...ove--in the broadest sense. Viktor Frankl developed the idea that we need to find meaning in our lives and to be responsible for choosing and living... ...he perceptions of our society, especially our neighborhoods and the communications media, that influence us to make decisions that direct our living...

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... whatever conditions the planet they were grown on was subjecting them to. On Louis Homes, a planet that got its name from a gentleman called Louis; people grew wood that was almost as strong as steel and lots of eatables serving as foodstuff the other mining planets further up the Arcus Stream. Not every planet was suitable for farming and growing food in greenhouses was...

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...ed in a sari decorated with mirrors. ‘Young man!’ she demanded as though I’d been caught spraying graffiti, ‘Are you the artist?’ How to respond? People who call themselves artists remind me of Napoleon seizing the jewelled cap, crowning himself and living to rue the day. Such accolades are for others to bestow. If, as frequently happens, a painter’s efforts delight no...

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