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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... ... by the Almighty, or maybe even by Emily Post. It reminds me of a Norwegian professor who did some undergraduate work at Stanford University... ...irst then put the knife down and ate with the fork in the right hand. The Norwegian assumed that after a few weeks the ignorant Americans would foll... ...cientology was founded in 1952 and had between a half million and 800,000 members fifty years later. Consequently it is the fastest growing religion.... ... agnostics by 5% from two years earlier.‖ —―But 85% of Norwegians are members of the state Lutheran Church.‖ —―This is because most Norwegi... ...ncient Greeks. Toubi‘s SA, Athens, 1997) 128. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2006.) 496 129. Manusmriti: Chapter 8:357-358) 1...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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... economic welfare all 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...

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