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...ntroduced the first killer application for the Apple II in 1979—VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet program—sales of the ungainly but very cool mach... ... off dramatically. 3 An Apple running VisiCalc helped to convince a skeptical world that there was a place for the PC at every- one’s desk and hence a ... ...- novations that Apple (and its exclusive carrier, AT&T) wanted. Whereas the world would innovate for the Apple II, only Apple would innovate for the ... ...us code. As more people use PCs and make them more accessible to the outside world through broadband, the value of corrupting these users’ decisions i... ...rise of tethered appliances will eliminate what today we take for granted: a world where mainstream technol- ogy can be influenced, even revolutionized... ...nds. To balance checkbooks conveniently would require communication with the bank so that the user would not have to manually enter cleared checks and... ...other word processor users could exchange diskettes with each other, and the bank could mail its customers cassettes, diskettes, or CD-ROMs containing... ...tomers cassettes, diskettes, or CD-ROMs containing data usable only with the bank’s in-home appliance. Or the home appliance could try to contact the ... ... bank’s computer from afar—an ac- tivity that would require the home and the bank to be networked somehow. This configuration converges on the Hollerit...

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...griculture 47 Towards an Alternative Approach 51 Chapter 3. UNDERSTANDING AND EDUCATION: ENVIRONMENTAL EMPATHY 55 Awareness 55 Bread Baskets of the World 58 The Global Need 59 The Imperative of Education 60 Public Environmental Education 63 Changes in Agricultural Education 66 Information or Knowledge 70 Chapter 4. HIGHER EDUCATION IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES 75 Note: ...

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...III THE DAUGHTERS OF THE SHEARS THREE DAUGHTERS and a son were left to the world by Mr. Melchisedec. Love, well endowed, had already claimed to provid... ...ir new position, and their husbands, and their husbands’ families, and the world, and what it would say, if to it the dreaded rumour should penetrate!... ... oh! what shall I do! My heart was like a lump of lead. I would have given worlds that we might one of us have smothered the other! I had to sit besid... ... one of two things—a title or money. He might have all the breeding in the world; he might be as good as an angel; but without a title or money he was... ...hy of the Countess’s face when Rose offered her plate for a portion of the world-subjugating viand, as who should say: ‘Sweet child! thou knowest not ... ...y clear your father’s name, and live better all the time than many of your bankrupt gentlemen. You have told the creditors you will pay them. Do you t... ...goner stopped his team. After a few minutes, a man appeared panting on the bank above them, down which he ran precipitately , knocked against Evan, ap... ...r—bartered her blood for his money, and he failed, and here she resides, a bankrupt widow, petitioning any man that may be willing 144 Evan Harringto... ...swam out over a pebbly bottom into sun-light, screened by the thick-weeded banks, loose-strife and willow-herb, and mint, nodding over you, and in the...

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...h containing staphylococcus, something odd caught his attention. And what made him spot that? This was the beginning of an idea that would change the world. The dish was covered in colonies of bacteria, except in one area where a blob of mould was growing. Somehow the mould was in an area free from bacteria, as if the mould had blocked the bacteria from spreading. He reali...

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...rnet – A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...management. It offers only some minor synergies with non-cyberspace, real world, franchises and media properties. The likes of Disney and Bertelsmann... ...apers available on-line and tens of thousands of satisfied plagiarists the world over. Some of these hubs - like cheater.com, cheatweb or cheathouse.... ... geeks and nerds). The assumption that the USA (let alone the rest of the world) is Silicone Valley writ large proved to be calamitous to the industr... ...ous conversion. And it is highly US-centric. People in other parts of the world interact entirely differently. You can get them to visit and you ... ...mprove their image: provide free access to schools and community centres, bankroll internet literacy classes, freely distribute contents and softwar... ...And, to ameliorate the impact of inevitable natural disasters, accidents, bankruptcies of publishers, and politically motivated destruction of data ... ...matical concepts...A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkablecomplexity. Lines ... ... only hope for survival - of cash-strapped and otherwise dysfunctional or bankrupt firms. Both managers and court-appointed receivers strive to mone...

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... The ICD-10, the International Classification of Diseases, published by the World Health Organisation in Geneva [1992] regards the Narcissistic Pers... ...ork, NY University Press, 1998 13. Jacobson, Edith. The Self and the Object World. New York, International Universities Press, 1964 14. Jung, C.G. C... ...on. Inner City Books, 1985 – pp. 90-91 29. Stern, Daniel. The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psych... ...focated by intimacy, or by the constant reminders of the REAL, nitty-gritty world out there. It reduces them, makes them realise the Grandiosity Ga... ... the Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The False Self is projected to the world in order to garner Narcissistic Supply – adulation, admiration, or... ... – was tried for his role in an attempted takeover of Israel's Agriculture Bank. Was interned in the State School of Prison Wardens. Managed the Cen...

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...those opposing the established order, in other words, brainwashing. Webster's New World Dictionary , in fact , states that the word is "now often u... ...ma of reconciling altruistic ideals with current negative myths about the business world; (2) the social cause advocate who is already marketing ide... ...istribution) -- in Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7, respectively. Part III presents a real-world application (Chapter 8), then considers consumers of concept... ...n idea sector, then testing those concepts with data and finally presenting a real-world application. I wish to express my sincere appreciation t... ...rounding in the subject might first peruse Chapter 8 which illustrates with a real-world application the theoretic development of the earlier chapter... ...mit 911 emergency number Abortion rights Affirmative action Alcoholism control Banking innovation Birth defects Blood donations Blue laws Can... ... Stephen H. Gamble, eds. 1971. Marketing and Social Issues. New York: Wiley. World Bank. 1978. World Development Report. Washington, D.C. Wright, Pe...

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...rst, he saw that God was polite, like the great Lord as He is, because the world is His, and He holds the title of it from no one. But since, in think... ...it not most clearly demonstrated to the learned that the sovereign Lord of worlds has made an infinite num- 8 Balzac ber of heavy, weighty, and serio... ...the women receive more wit at their baptism than in any other place in the world, and thus are mischievous by birth. But our silversmith, always busy ... ...e became. Now if God had not had pity upon him, he would have quitted this world without knowing what love was, but would have known it in the other w... ...e-and- fortieth year of his age. One Sabbath-day while walking on the left bank of the Seine, led by an idle fancy, he ventured as far as that meadow ... ... my pretty one,” said he, “you are not overburdened with the goods of this world that you thus work with your hands upon the Lord’s Day. Are you not a... ...rms, and seeing her, asked who she was. An old man, who was working on the banks, told him she was called the Pretty Maid of Portillon, a laundress, c... ...ration of a Lombard of the town, the enormous sums which Pezare had in the bank of Genoa, the whole of which were given up to Montsoreau. This noble a...

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... will generally seem to give. A man rarely carries himself meanly whom the world holds in high esteem. ‘I am very tired, my dear,’ said Mr Walker. ‘Yo... ...ry poor—an unhappy, moody, disappointed man, upon whom the troubles of the world always seemed to come with a double weight. But he had ever been resp... ..., as they lived; that he worked hard, as they worked; and that the outside world was hard to him, as it was to them; and there had been an apparent si... ...ness about the man, and a manifest struggle to do his duty in spite of the world’s ill-usage, which had won its way even with the rough; so that Mr Cr... ...in the lines of her figure, she was the prettiest girl in that part of the world. She was living now at a school in Silverbridge, where for the last y... ... made as to a certain cheque for twenty pounds drawn by Lord Lufton on his bankers in London, which cheque had been lost in the early spring by Mr Soa... ...re is no doubt. But he had paid it by a cheque drawn by himself on his own bankers at Barchester, and that cheque had been cashed in the ordinary way ... ...ufton’s cheque was 11 Anthony Trollope traced back through the Barchester bank to Mr Crawley’s hands. A brickmaker of Hoggle End, much favoured by Mr... ...ed by Mr Crawley, had asked for change over the counter of this Barchester bank—not, as will be understood, the bank on which the cheque was drawn—and...

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...lost the power to know. O Death! thou awe-inspiring prince That keepst the world in fear, Why dost thou tear more blest ones hence, And leave him ling... ...47 DEAR WILLIAM:—Your letter, advising me of the receipt of our fee in the bank case, is just received, and I don’t expect to hear another as good a p... ...of news from Springfield while I am away. I am under no obligations to the bank; and I therefore wish you to buy bank certifi- cates, and pay my debt ... ...uld as soon you should buy them of Mr. Ridgely, or any other person at the bank, as of any one else, provided you can get them as cheaply. I suppose, ... ...f any one else, provided you can get them as cheaply. I suppose, after the bank debt shall be paid, there will be some money left, out of which I woul... ...a most sacred right—a right which we hope and be- lieve is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an ... ...n to the present President when I say there are few stronger cases in this world of “burden to the many and benefit to the few,” of “inequality,” than... ...o tinually demanded. On this principle the President, his friends, and the world generally act on most subjects. Why not apply it, then, upon this que... ...ur mind to be improperly directed. I have some the advantage of you in the world’s experience, merely by being older; and it is this that induces me t...

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...hut him up in its sooty embrace. If it had never let him out any more, the world would have had no irreparable loss, but could have easily replaced hi... ...He could see her through the window by the light of her low fire—carefully banked up with damp cinders that it might last the longer and waste the les... ...hair!’ cried Miss Abbey. ‘And enough to make wigs for all the dolls in the world. What a quantity!’ ‘Call that a quantity?’ returned Miss Wren. ‘Poof!... ...see! The four rough fellows, seeing, shed tears. Neither Riderhood in this world, nor Riderhood in the other, could draw tears from them; but a strivi... ...and interest, to find any one very willing to tolerate his society in this world, not to say pressingly and soothingly entreating him to belong to it,... ... is, after all disappointments, to be so provided for and so raised in the world; but don’t you cry , don’ t you cry . I am very thankful. I congratul... ... an old jacket, carefully tied, and strongly nailed down to the manger, in bank notes and gold were found five hundred pounds more.”’ (Here Mr Wegg’s ... ... times on searching the corners of the house they found various parcels of bank notes. Some were crammed into the crevices of the wall”’; (Here Mr V e... ...ark the way . A barge was being towed towards her, and she sat down on the bank to rest and watch it. As the tow-rope was slackened by a turn of the s...

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...life always fell short of the ideals which Pons cre- ated for himself; the world without was not in tune with the soul within, but Pons had made up hi... ... upon the short-lived follies of Paris, produces its Pons. No place in the world is so inexorable in great things; no city of the globe so disdainfull... ... that the object was worth three thousand. The most beautiful thing in the world, if it cost three hundred francs, did not exist for Pons. Rare had be... ... to the formulas and facial contortions which do duty for feel- ing in the world; he used compliments as small change; and as far as others were conce... ...y. So Cousin Pons was accused of selfishness (behind his back); and if the world accuses any one, it usually finds him guilty and condemns him into th... ...ways an enthusiastic admirer of the fair sex, applied for the license of a bankrupt theatre, Popinot granted it on condition that Pons (a parasite of ... ...ssity for ballets and pantomimes; but the last management had so long been bankrupt, that they could not afford to keep a transposer and copyist. Pons... ...se two gentlemen came here, we have put two thousand francs in the savings bank. T wo thousand francs in eight years! What luck! Would it be better to... ...authorized incisions in travelers’ purses with the connivance of the local bankers. An innkeeper and an honest Calvinist to boot, he had married a con...

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... if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, and why today's policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its inception. Appropriately given its theme, the book will be sold commercially but also made available online for free under a Creative Commons license.(1.6MB PDF File) ...

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...work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic world. I owe the biggest debt of grat- itude to my colleague Jennifer Jen... ...te of property” is a concept that is much more important when we come to the world of ideas, information, expression, and invention. We want a lot of ... ...enment does not happen by itself. The environmentalists helped us to see the world differently, to see that there was such a thing as “the environment... ...ng of the pets of the wealthy is “worth more” than the lives of the tropical world’s poor. But for a lot of products, in a lot of areas, the market wo... ...it? Apparently not. You have brought economists with you into your brave new world—perhaps out of nostalgia, or because a lot of packing got done at t... ...ety (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996), 145–148. 4. SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Co., 268 F .3d 1257 (11th Cir. 2001). 5. See Samu... ...garet Mitchell, Gone With the Wind (New York: Macmillan, 1936). 36. SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Co., 136 F. Supp. 2d 1357 (N.D.Ga. 2001). For tho... ...n,” Law and Contemporary Problems 66 (Winter–Spring 2003): 173. 38. SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Co. 268 F .3d 1257 (11th Cir. 2001). Notes to pag... ...e property rights as the cure for all ills. (See Joseph Stiglitz, “The World Bank at the Millennium,” Economic Journal 109 [1999]: 577–597.) It has th...

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... St. Peter’s Square like a living quilt. The late morning sun broke through a bank of gray clouds, and rays of sun spotlighted the hills of Rome. A... ... newspapers ran bold headlines declaring the end of the Catholic Church as the world knew it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and made it known to every... ...hairman of the Armed Services Committee he controlled the purse strings of the world's most sophisticated Army. An Army designed to protect a Nation;... ... acknowledge it. Now his wife was threatening to leave him. He felt lost in a world of confusion; life no longer held any meaning for him. What happ... ...he was beautiful. She never hurt anyone." "Senator, there is an evil in the world. It is called 'Drugs'. It was drugs that killed your daughter, a... ...l the more. “I intend to stop the Drug-Trade. Not only here, but all over the world. I want to save the children. Alicia’s death will not be meaningl... ...the more. After completing the usual security check, he passed quickly to a bank of elevators. General Radcliff had cleared his schedule for Alex ... ...t of Honshu. After about an hour, Ky said, "We are almost there." The plane banked into a steep descent. Through the solid green of the forest, An... ...h an even greater revenge. 275 J.Cross/Artemis The Mexicana airliner banked over the lush, rugged hills of Bogota. Soule' wondered how many...

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...dition, with foreword by Dr. Ron Paul it's A Must Have Book For All Investors Within these pages you will learn dozens of useful ideas including: The world's 3 safest currencies A one of a kind silver investment that could pay you 1,000% A simple way to organize all of your financial documents The secret paper currency used by the world's wealthiest people How to quickly o...

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...ake 33 A Silver Investment Created by the U.S. Government 37 Where to Get Your U.S. Coins 40 Safe Silver: A Far Better Business 41 Part IV The World’s Most Valuable Asset in a Time of Crisis How You Can Protect Yourself – and Even Profit – in the Face of a Crisis 45 One of the Best ‘Crisis Asset’ Companies in the World 49 Part V The Nine Most Important Things...

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... social introversion and depression, and much more. By the end of this book you will know why patterns of negativity persist in ourselves and in the world. Second, you will understand what it takes to break free from patterns of victimhood, illness, depression, and fear. Third, you will have a toolbox of practices that encourage neurological and biological evolution and...

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...aking Decisions From The Heart Direct Conversation With The Unconscious Mind How The Mind, Body, and Emotions Affect Each Other The Inner Resource Bank Account Model Introversion and Social Anxiety Change Your Physiology Health And Happiness Cause Socially Dominant Behavior And Vice Versa Reference Experiences New Life Scripts Sunlight, Tanning, and Full Spectrum ...