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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ... the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge ... ...and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and hi... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...rts. Warrior-rulers now could command troops well beyond the boundaries formerly limited by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and ... ...g‘s son appealed to Samarkand. When its Arab Caliphate agreed to take the former prince‘s side in his dispute with China, the stage was for a pivotal... ... revolutionary technology used to produce the book without mentioning his former partner Gutenberg‘s role in its development. The Fust-Schoeffer... ...s are now being used to stop all US copyrights from expiring—and those in countries outside the United States as well. That‘s what I term ―economi...

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...ry of the Hawaiian Kingdom completes the project launched over forty years ago by the Historical Commission of the Territory of Hawaii and taken over in 1932 by the Department of History of the University of Hawaii. As originally planned by Professor Ralph Simpson Kuykendall, the first six chapters of this book were to be included in the second volume of the series, but i...

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... All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any Means, w... ...on that could 31 be implemented in the Future 10. Can smaller Businesses rebuild our Economy ... ...e the Economic Crisis? 60 7. Survive the Crisis, by living in a Multi-Family Home 61 8. Is Knowledge T... ...d World, and attitudes changed with these improvements. Poverty means in many Countries you only own one Television, rent a house, and have a low in... ...n anytime in human history, thanks to the outsourcing of industry to low wage countries in the developing world. Countries were the average wage, wo... ...ently as 18 years ago, Germany. The German modal could be the modal that some countries would choose today. But few people realize the German New De... ...e German Corporations. There were some success stories, but looking at the former Eastern and Central Germany today, you see "rust belts", emptyi... ...ant than International trade. One natural ally is Russia, being neighbors and former "ideological foes." China needs resources, whilst Russia needs ... ...able at German Soup Kitchens. A Third World problem of hunger, is hitting the former developed World. This prospect of third World problems on the...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Le... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-6-3 Table of Contents Arriving in Indus ..................................................................... ................................................. 20 POLITICS OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES .................................................................... ...d--but what a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third World nation just trying to get its ove... ...ps forward like it did in China. The gross domestic product in developing countries rose by 30% during those 20 years. But like I said, the inflatio... ...rtainly of Night.‘ Then Kipling used the phrase in writing about another former Indian city, Lahore. . ―But no longer do you see the trucks ... ...f progress and once again make it the ‗basket case‘ of the world, as your former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once called it. "As Ay... ...s debating a $700 billion bailout bill to save the American economy. Like former President Bill Clinton once said ‗It‘s the economy, stupid!‘ Freedo...

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... Seymour H. Fine With Foreword by Philip Kotler Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TH... ...SS 14 Social Issues and Causes 14 SOME CONCEPTS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES 15 INCREASE IN CONCERN WITH IDEAS 17 From Inner to Other-Directedness 17 Vol... ...ED TYPOLOGY OF PRODUCTS 23 The Typology 24 Implications 27 EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS IN SOCIAL MARKETING 28 Marketing as Exchange and Exchange as Mark... ...oncepts as minority groups, women and children are becoming emancipated from their former inferior roles. Moreover, as literacy rates rise, the numbe... ...compatible innovation is the use of the IUD (intrauterine contraceptive device) in countries where religious beliefs discourage use of birth control ... ...tion, social costs and quality-of-life considerations than they have in the past. Formerly, we were all happy riding our merry Oldsmobile, mowing o... ...ifference between the economist's approach and that of the marketer stems from the formers assumption of rationality in man -the economic man concept... ...erent situations, as Professor Sheth has pointed out (1980), "For example, in many countries, the state owns and manages large corporations which ar... ...ducts. For example it is commonplace to see huge posters in (primarily) socialist countries portraying political leaders in the effort to enhance t...

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... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “... ... Return to Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search ... ................................................................... 12 A MORE IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE PROBLEMS .............................................. ... for 25 years. I want to jump into the chaos of civilization and visit some countries that interest me. Some countries have made effective strides in... ...old age benefits. If it isn’t too late, we can follow the lead of those few countries that have licensed parents to have children. It seems that it i... ...acy which have led them away from any utopian goals. I want to examine some countries that seem to be moving towards a utopia and some countries that... ...ots” lived hungry, in filth and squalor. Today, to my amazement, some of the former prosperous nations are poorer while some of the former third worl... ...tion, it still hasn’t taken the comparable toll that the Black Death did in Europe centuries ago. But then we keep getting strains of influenza, like... ... are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.’ As long as our own lives are going well we think 44 there i...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...medical care and more time with a happy family rate high. ―Some countries are beginning to study what people value—what are their beliefs a... ...ot very important. Obviously a utopia should have happy citizens. Several countries now are developing criteria and measurements for societal happin... ...n to our beliefs, we generally reject it. ―We, as individuals or as countries, usually justify our behavior, but that justification may not be... ...in a judging God, but act quite differently in real life. Some have cited former U.S. Congressional; leader Tom DeLay who in 2006 resigned his congr... ...logy of their research, much of the reasoning seems to revolve around the former required atheism of the USSR, which when it ended allowed some of t... ...ort for religions and work done by religions. Its co-presidents include a former fundamentalist minister who became an atheist. ―It makes ...

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...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...Brous- sard told me the dirty secrets of the music industry. Daphne Keller—a former student and later a colleague—helped in more ways than I can count... ... as “arcane,” “technical,” or “abstruse” in the same way as they referred to former attorney general Alberto Gonzales as “controversial.” It is a verb... ...ardens, and are willing to pay handsomely for them, then some farmer who was formerly growing soy- beans or gourds will devote a field to petunias inst... ...neral law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and per... ...9 It also holds, to a lesser extent, in Britain. Even in the droits d’auteur countries, which have a markedly different copyright law regime, it large... ...hed in 1869 as a re- sult of such criticisms. Observers in a number of other countries, including Britain, concluded that their national patent system...

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...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ... the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge ... ...and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and hi... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...ports. Warrior-rulers now could command troops well beyond the boundaries formerly limited by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and ... ...g‘s son appealed to Samarkand. When its Arab Caliphate agreed to take the former prince‘s side in his dispute with China, the stage was for a pivotal... ... revolutionary technology used to produce the book without mentioning his former partner Gutenberg‘s role in its development. The Fust-Schoeffer f... ...s are now being used to stop all US copyrights from expiring—and those in countries outside the United States as well. That‘s what I term ―economi...

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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...s engaged George A. Murray of Springfield, to decorate the gymnasium as in former years. The color scheme will be yellow and white. The caterer will b... ...treet North Adams Telsfhonb 245-3 OBITUARIES '57 —Simeon Howard Calhoun, a former mayor of Nebraska city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age... ...y much alike in both cases—internal uprisings. The ultimate jjower of both countries rests with the people, although the members of the ruling bodies ... ...velt and the Ger- man Kaiser are striving for the best iiiteiests of their countries, and also for more peaceful inter- national relations. This excha... ...vements there is as great a );roportioii of poor boys at Williams today as formerly. The cost of tuiticjri has only ad- vanced $12.;jO within a period... ...k which must be done. The yearly increase of Christian- ity in the heathen countries by conversion is 125,000: the yearly increase of heathens by birt...

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... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern S... ...odern Sino-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gull... ............................................................ 17 MEDICAL COSTS IN THE U.S. ................................................................. ...plating a war to stop the air and water pollution of the United States and Europe which was endangering the people and the economy of Kino and the w... ...d knows they need the money! ―The subsidies are essential to keep poor countries poor. They allow the farmers in the developed countries to unde... ...ey allow the farmers in the developed countries to undersell farmers whose countries can‘t afford to subsidize them. Developing countries argue that... ...s being raised, even though it isn‘t needed. Meanwhile sub- Saharan African countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in lost cotton... ...he bottom to the top as quickly as has China. It‘s getting it right. And as former party leader Deng Xiaoping said ‗to get right is glorious.‘ 11... ...re and contrast with both China and the West. Let‘s start with health. As a former professor of health education I am certainly interested in this ar...

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...rofessor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was firs... ...c domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classics' the first volume was published in 1904, ... ...e World's Classics' the first volume was published in 1904, and reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the E... ...epe; and will the well- drawne water be so sower and smell? And were their Countries so ennobled, advantaged, and embellished by such deriving; and d... ... great pleasure at it, that hee wept for joy, and forthwith converted that former inexorable rage, and mortall hatred he bare the Duke, into so milde... ...ffered himselfe to be so far transported, that quitting and forgetting his former resolution, he so abandoned himselfe to all manner of sorrow and gr... ...ecause this last displeasure may be manifested by weeping whereas the two former exceed by much, all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.'... ...mortall enemie, who was fled out of England, and saved himself in the Low countries, always provided the king should attempt nothing against the Duk... ... a second May. The Lacedemonians themselves, so strict observers of their countries ordinances, being urged by their Lawes, which precisely forbid a...