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The odds of rising to another income level are notably low in certain cities, like Atlanta and Charlotte, and much higher in New York and Boston. 
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July 28, 2013 7:03 PM
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Eradicating Child Marriage; Is the Removal of S29 the Answer? By Roz Ben ...
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July 27, 2013 3:47 PM
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The remains of the earliest European fort in the interior of what is now the continental United States have been discovered by a team of archaeologists, providing new insight into the start of the U.S. colonial era and the all-too-human reasons spoiling Spanish dreams of gold and glory.
Spanish Captain Juan Pardo and his men built Fort San Juan in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in 1567, nearly 20 years before Sir Walter Raleigh’s “lost colony” at Roanoke and 40 years before the Jamestown settlement established England’s presence in the region.
“Fort San Juan and six others that together stretched from coastal South Carolina into eastern Tennessee were occupied for less than 18 months before the Native Americans destroyed them, killing all but one of the Spanish soldiers who manned the garrisons,” said University of Michigan archaeologist Robin Beck.
Beck, an assistant professor in the U-M Department of Anthropology and assistant curator at the U-M Museum of Anthropology, is working with archaeologists Christopher Rodning of Tulane University and David Moore of Warren Wilson College to excavate the site near the city of Morganton in western North Carolina, nearly 300 miles from the Atlantic Coast.
The Berry site, named in honour of the stewardship of landowners James and the late Pat Berry, is located along a tributary of the Catawba River and was the location of the Native American town of Joara, part of the mound-building Mississippian culture that flourished in the southeastern U.S. between 800 and about 1500 CE.
In 2004, with support from the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation, Beck and his colleagues began excavating several of the houses occupied by Spanish soldiers at Joara, where Pardo built Fort San Juan. Pardo named this small colony of Spanish houses Cuenca, after his own hometown in Spain. Yet the remains of the fort itself eluded discovery until last month.
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July 27, 2013 3:38 PM
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An unusually loud outcry followed the vendor’s death in a squabble with urban management agents, who for many Chinese are the most visible face of the authoritarian impulses of the government.
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July 27, 2013 9:40 AM
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Despite the gains, more Africans still die from Malaria even as the spotlight remains firmly fixed on HIV/AIDS.
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July 25, 2013 9:20 PM
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This site has been curated by a Librarian. The references to print refer to resources in that library. Some of the film footage may be available on YouTube.
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from Psychology
July 24, 2013 1:53 PM
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Studies suggest the existence of a sort of linguistic Heisenberg principle: as soon as you label something, you change how people perceive it.
studies suggest a sort of linguistic Heisenberg principle: as soon as you label a concept, you change how people perceive it. It’s difficult to imagine a truly neutral label, because words evoke images
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July 24, 2013 1:14 PM
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The Internet is governed by a decentralized and international multistakeholder network of interconnected autonomous groups drawing from civil society,
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July 16, 2013 10:08 AM
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"Although 75% of the planet is a relatively unchanging ocean of blue, the remaining 25% of Earth's surface is a dynamic green. Data from the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite is able to detect these subtle differences in greenness. The resources on this page highlight our ever-changing planet, using highly detailed vegetation index data from the satellite, developed by scientists at NOAA. The darkest green areas are the lushest in vegetation, while the pale colors are sparse in vegetation cover either due to snow, drought, rock, or urban areas. Satellite data from April 2012 to April 2013 was used to generate these animations and images."
This is something to check out if you want to see first hand look at the green and not so green places on our planet. It really makes you see the parts of the world that get enough rain and the areas that don't that makes what we see from Satellite images from space.
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July 9, 2013 9:05 PM
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The Union navy often does not receive the attention it deserves when it comes to the American Civil War. This is particularly true of the Irish involvement; the Irish contribution to the Union navy...
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June 28, 2013 9:57 AM
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Timeline: India's love for gold and the government's efforts to curb it
Hindustan Times
Add “gold” as a comparative keyword and the searches for the commodity Indians love are far higher.
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July 30, 2013 8:34 AM
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"Americans ate 475 million pounds of tilapia last year, making this once obscure African native the most popular farmed fish in the United States."
How is the concept of agribusiness changing the way we think about food?
My concern is how safe is bioengineered food? How has its nutritional content been altered? Until some of our questions about bioengineered food can be answered by the FDA and other government officials I remain leery about the potential side effects that might occur from eating it and wonder how nutritious it really is.
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July 30, 2013 8:28 AM
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By Neal Lineback and Mandy Lineback Gritzner, Geography in the NewsTM DECLINE IN OCEAN FISHERIES The world may be running out of places to catch wild fish.
This really shows how the worlds oceans are being fished out and something has to be done about it before this map even worse.
I think more pressure has to be put in places like the UN on the guilty countries to slow fishing down around the world.
Useful for consideration of Fish as a resource in the topic Natural Resource Use in Global Challenges.
Overtime as the population has increased you can see on the map that areas have been over fished. This has caused people to move near the water to fish and it has created some jobs for them. This could be bad becuase as the population increases the fish will decrease due to the over fishing.
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July 28, 2013 11:07 AM
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An industry perspective on the science and psychology of wind turbines ABC Online The South Australian Environmental Protection Agency produced a comparative report into infrasound in February this year, finding that infrasound near wind farms is...
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July 27, 2013 3:41 PM
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Which State Is Headed in the Wrong Direction at the Fastest Rate?
Town Hall
And it goes without saying (but I'll say it anyhow) that Switzerland's comparative frugality helps to explain why its economy is much stronger than the French economy.
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July 27, 2013 9:50 AM
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"Forget politics. Muslim countries are poised to experience a new wave of change -- but this time it's all about demographics."
For generations the talk about demographics has been that Muslim-majority societies have cultural factors that keep fertility rates high despite the global trend that indicates that fertility rates will drop as societies become more wealthy and developed. This 'cultural immunity' is not as impermeable as was once thought and we are now seeing falling birth rates and fertility rates throughout the Muslim World. This article is heavy on statistics and charts, which would be a benefit to student as a potential Free Response Question.
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July 25, 2013 9:55 PM
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A billboard that draws humidity from the air in a rain-starved part of Peru delivers 96 litres of water a day - and has become a local attraction.
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July 25, 2013 9:31 PM
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Best of History Web Sites, created by EdTechTeacher, is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites and activities.
"Designed for history educators and students, this useful portal provides access to more than 700 of the best history resources online. Sites are organized into 10 categories—Prehistory, Ancient/Biblical, Medieval, U.S History, Early Modern European, 20th Century, World War II, Art History, General Resources, and Maps. Many of the five-star Pre-history, Ancient, and Medieval sites are hosted by Smithsonian Institution, PBS, and the Internet History Sourcebooks; and the Library of Congress is the creator of a wide-range of top-rated sites for U.S. history. The 20th-century and World War II sections are voluminous, the latter presenting 42 sites. There are three special categories: Lesson Plans/Activities, Multimedia, and Research. "Multimedia" includes 18 map sites, including the Rumsey collection with more than 8,000 maps. Instructors will find the section on "Teaching with Technology" especially informative. It offers articles and advice about integrating computers into lessons and links to dozens of useful resources on teaching with technology. Visitors can sign up to receive monthly email updates." --review from http://teachinghistory.org
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July 25, 2013 9:15 PM
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Explore history with the BBC from the Egyptians to the World Wars. Browse through timelines and articles, read biographies, play games, and watch programmes.
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July 24, 2013 1:16 PM
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LONDON (AP) — The Victorians. The Edwardians. The Elizabethans.Royal names can define a generation. So imagine the pressure on the new parents to pick the right one!
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July 24, 2013 12:41 PM
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Shyness is a part of being human, and the world would be a more insipid, less creative place without it
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July 9, 2013 9:05 PM
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Law mandates that children regularly visit their parents and avoid "overlooking or neglecting" elders, although the specific punishment isn't clear.
"Imagine a world where it was illegal not to visit your ageing parents. Where your grandpa could take you to court for not paying him enough attention. That world exists, and it's called China. As of this week, the country has a new law that forbids "overlooking or neglecting the elderly."
It's not clear what exactly lies in store for you if you don't, and many Chinese internet users have criticized the legislation as unworkable and overly moralizing. But anyone commenting online, we might fairly assume, probably isn't one of the old people the law is intended to protect.
At least one senior citizen has already used it to her advantage: a 77-year-old woman from Wuxi successfully petitioned a court to order her daughter to spend time with her "at least once every two months, and on at least two of China's national holidays." What happy occasions those will be. "
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130702/grandmother-77-wins-first-china-neglect-case
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In a project that will be watched by engineers and biologists across the nation, construction crews today will begin a three-year, $84 million project to tear down the hulking San Clemente Dam in Californias largest dam-removal project ever.
So much money and time needed to tear down something that was most likely a marvel of its time. Also another sign the the industrial era is way behind us.
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
This example is in the USA but too interesting to not include!
Facilities management entails a broad array of disciplines including, but not limited to, planning, designing, leasing, space planning, product management, capital management, construction management, property management, and real estate acquisition, planning and disposal.