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...On the Cultural Contrast: East-West, preface by F. Liu. 4 -- Abstract by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 12 -- Preface by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 13 -- Biography of the Translator. 18 -- Publi...

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...eas between 2009 and 2010 is equivalent to 2.8 percent, exceeding the pro rata benchmark. APEC demonstrated the third best improvement among nine key regional and economic blocks. ...

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...k is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Singapore License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://cr... ...e pro rata benchmark. APEC demonstrated the third best improvement among nine key regional and economic blocks. Source: World Bank – Doi... ... Ease of Doing Business Initiative (2009-2010) Pro Rata Benchmark = 2.5 percent Region Starting a Business Dealing with Construction Permits ... ... Despite the good start, however, there is room for improvement across the APEC region in all EoDB priority areas. For example, in 2010, it took a... ...s (EoDB) initiative dates back to February 2009, when Senior Officials meeting in Singapore agreed to put in place an Action Plan to improve the busi... ... • Starting a Business: New Zealand and the United States • Dealing with Permits: Singapore • Getting Credit: Japan • Trading Across Borders: Hong ... ...ebanon; Morocco; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Syria; Tunisia; United Arab Emirates; West Bank and Gaza; Yemen. OECD (30 economies) Australia; Aus...

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...Total consumption of milk in developing regions is projected to increase from 164 million metric tonnes in 1993 to 391 million metric tons by the year 2020 – a 138 percent increase! The expected increase in per capita consumption is from 38 to 62 kg/person. The tri...

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...industry in a changing world H. Schelhaas Introduction Four specific features of the dairy industry Milk production The processing industry in Western countries Dairy policy Consumption of dairy products in Western countries The international dairy markets Conclusions Suggested reading Chapter 2: Dairy production systems in the tropics P. N. de Leeuw, A. O...

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...French Guiana 83 French Polynesia 84 Gabon 85 Gambia, The 87 Gaza Strip (see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) German Democratic Republic (E... ...) German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 88 Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany) 90 Ghana 91_ Gibraltar 93^ Greece 9 Greenland 95 Grenada 96... ...ge Iceland 111 India 112 Indonesia 114 Iran 116 Iraq 117 Ireland 119 Israel (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 120 Italy 122 Ivory Coast (Co... ...nd Principe 213 Saudi Arabia 214 Senegal 215 Seychelles 216 Sierra Leone 218 Singapore 219 Solomon Islands 220 Somalia 221 South Africa 223 Soviet Uni... ...rganizations 282 D. Mathematical Conversions 290 Maps I. The World (Guide to Regional Maps) II. North America III. Central America and the Caribbean I... .... Soviet Union, East and South Asia IX. Southeast Asia X. Oceania XI. Arctic Region XII. Antarctic Region XIII. Standard Time Zones of the World Note... ...Y) unless indicated as fiscal year (FY) or otherwise. Afghanistan 300km Set regional map VIII Geography Total area: 647,500 km 2 ; land area: 647,500... ...ers: (1983-84) exports 26% Japan, 11% US, 6% New Zealand, 4% North Korea, 4% Singapore, 3% USSR; imports 22% US, 22% Japan, 7% UK, 6% FRG, 4% New Zeal... ...de petroleum and liquefied natural gas) roughly two-thirds to Japan; imports Singapore 24%, Japan 20%, US 16% (1985) Budget: revenues, $2,109 million;...

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... 14 percent), in Poland (-7), in the Czech Republic (-6) and even in fervently pro-Western Bulgaria (-4 percent). It rose exponentially in Ukraine ... ...le is, alas, no better reasoned, nor better informed. American pilgrims were forced westward because "they found there was neither tile over their h... ...xpansion was "triggered by commercial capital." This capital - better known in the West as the military-industrial complex - also determines US for... ... violated Thompson's edict. In its oft-interrupted intercourse with these forsaken regions of the globe, it has acted, alternately, as a Peeping To... ...hreats and unkempt diplomats - it has driven the world to the verge of war and the regions it "adopted" to the threshold of economic and social uph... ... manipulated and coaxed and coerced - but when it failed. To the peoples of these regions, the king was fully dressed. It was not a little child b... ...on the kindness of strangers: Indian, Canadian, South Korean and, lately, Chinese. Singapore and Malaysia are eyeing the tourism industry, especial...

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......................................................................... 16 SINGAPORE’S PROBLEM .......................................................... ...lay Peninsula, tooled its philosophy from its successful island neighbor, Singapore. I had visited Singapore a few times before my flight, but had n... ...an intelligence and work ethic have pushed it far past its rivals in the West. Population control was probably a major factor in its rise, but was n... ...or a home. These rules kept most families to two or fewer heirs. Singapore, Singaling’s country cousin, or cousin country, had cut births to... ... millennial history is not based on the pragmatism of profit found in the West. But, as you might expect, profits followed and multiplied as incredi... ...nd jailed some rivals, and often suppressed other freedoms that we in the West deem essential. But if it is results you want, an orderly highly func... ...igions of Abraham.” —“Certainly the short sighted leaders in those regions will call it genocide. But aren‟t you worried about losing your na... ...n Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which was originally passed in 1950. It regionalized the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the G...

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...5 Fixing Global Finance Table 1: Global GDP Growth (in Per cent) Country / Region 2009 2010 US (-) 2.7 1.5 UK (-) 4.4 0.9 Euro Area (-) 4.2 0.3 Japan ... ...financing. Of late, there are some signs of recovery of trade in the Asian region led by China, but globally the trade crisis is far from over. The co... ...policy measures (both short and long-term) have been announced by IFIs and regional developmental banks at various levels to mitigate the negative imp... ... about 12 million of the newly unemployed were in North America, Japan and Western Europe. Even in developing countries, employment levels may not rea... ...e adverse impact was observed in highly open developing economies (such as Singapore and Mexico) due to their deeper linkages with global financial ma... ...he crisis. When the crisis erupted, these economies were badly hit because Western banks immediately withdrew funds from their subsidiaries operating ... ...egatively affected due to fall in consumption and imports in recession-hit Western economies. In the aftermath of crisis, the decline in US imports fr... ...al trade have also played an important role. 9 China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong have been running persistent trade surpluses for ma... ...ation is an important component of India’s bilateral trade agreements with Singapore and Korea. The proposed bilateral agreements with EU, Japan, Aust...

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...f articles, I will attempt to study four such groups which operated in the tortured region of the Balkans. I will start with the IMRO (VMRO) in Mac... ..."The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization directs its eyes neither to the West, nor to the East,nor to anywhere else; it relies primarily ... ...ne country, two systems" approach by agreeing to a Christian administration of the region and by permitting education in foreign languages, by fore... ...h clothing or handsome lodgings or all the books they needed" - wrote Dame Rebecca West in her eternal "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" in 1940. Goce... ...n Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia. He felt equally comfortable in all three regions. He was shot to death by the Turks in Banitsa, then a Bu... ...with the proceeds. It started rather innocuously in the hotbed of ethnic unrest, Western Macedonia - telegraph wires were cut, some tax registers... ...is a treasure trove of successful nation- building in Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore by the much maligned USA. These exercises , without th...

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...a radius and/or coordinate of some kind in the gravitational feld. (b) The regions 0<r<2m and 2m<r<∞ are both valid. (c) A singularity in the gravitat... ... Contrary to the usual practise, one cannot talk about extensions into the region 0<r<2m or division into R and T regions until it has been rigorously... ...nto R and T regions until it has been rigorously established that the said regions are valid to begin with. One cannot treat the r-parameter as a radi... ...uality correspondence [13]) stems from the MacDowell- Mansouri-Chamseddine-West formulation of Gravity based on the conformal groupSO(3,2) which has t... ... generators. In [17] we have shown why the MacDowell-Mansouri- Chamseddine-West formulation of Gravity, with a cosmolo- gical constant and a topologic... ...Sitter GroupSO(3,2) that is required in the MacDowell-Mansouri-Chamseddine-West formulation of Gravity. However, the space Q 5 =S 4 ×RP 1 is large eno... ...C. Spatio-temporal vacuum fuctuations of quantized felds. World Scientifc, Singapore 2002. 7. Coquereaux R., Jadcyk A. Reviews in Mathematical Physics... ...d fnite approach to natural philosophy. Series in Knots in Physics, v. 27, Singapore, World Scientifc, 2001. 19. Pitkanen M. Topological Geometrodynam... ...rov V., Volovich I. and Zelenov I. p-Adic numbers in mathematical physics. Singapore, World Scientifc, 1994. Brekke L., Freund P. Physics Reports, 199...

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...to get rid of it, and traders to hedge against it. Modern risk exchanges liberated Western economies from the tyranny of the uncertain - they enthu... ... risk transfer markets to disperse risks, making them less vulnerable to particular regional, sectoral, or market shocks. Greater inter-dependenc... ...nce or a primary insurance contract. According to an article published by Kathryn Westover of Strategic Risk Solutions in "Financing Risk and Rei... ...razilians and South Africans, for instance, pay a fraction of the price paid in the West for their anti- retroviral AIDS medication. Even so, the p... ...n from international trade and FDI, lack of fiscal incentives, a small domestic or regional market, a conservative ethos, risk aversion, or a well-... ...even detrimental to the hosts. But this interaction - however undesirable - is the region's only hope. The typology of scavenger economies reveals... ... influences on countries as far apart as Germany, the United states, Argentina and Singapore - all in the throes of a concurrent recession. Still,...

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...ieves in development, modernization, globalization, a planetary future. In Western development statistics, Finland is near the top, currently the lead... ...achieve a balanced, healthy and good life. And yet, it is precisely in the Western countries that ever more people are unwell. Modern research finds e... ...t ever more people are unwell. Modern research finds ever more problems in Western countries, sickness, violence, repression of women, paedophilia... ... ...Yearbook. National Statistical Office: 2003 Agricultural Census (Northern region) 5. Penth 1994. Joel John Barlow, History of Lanna. Chiang Rai Guid... ...men in rural villages of Western Finland, as well as elsewhere in European regions of village culture, have also made overnight visits to girls' house... ...ai women aged 19-30 would be serving Western sex tourists, and the tourist regions would already have more prostitutes than female inhabitants. In rea... ...82. Culture Chock! Thailand... and How to Survive it. Times Books Intern., Singapore. Coughlin, Richard 1960. Double Identity. Chinese in Modern Thai... ...Southeast Asia. Institute of South East Asian Studies. Oxford Univ. Press, Singapore. Featherstone, Mike 1991. Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. ... ...lip 1990. Development Dilemmas in Rural Thailand. Oxford University Press, Singapore. — 1994. The Thai Countryside in the 1990s. Southeast Asian Affa...

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...rages all over Eastern and Central Europe, in countries in transition as well as in Western Europe. It raged in Britain during the 80s. Is privatiz... ...and Finance at the Nanyang Business School of the Nanyang Technological University Singapore, summarized by saying: "The (short selling) Rule’s re... ...ts, both tangible and intangible, retarded wealth formation. In some respects, the West - and especially the United States - are poorer now than th... ... otherwise. This is disingenuous. Ponzi and pyramid schemes have been a fixture of Western civilization at least since the middle Renaissance. Ass... ...sed to the vicissitudes of the residential real estate markets in their respective regions. Every normal cyclical slump in property values or regio... ... the savings establishments for liquidity. It provides lines of credit from twelve regional Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLB). Those banks and the thr... ...mported energy and exported goods, Europe's economy faced a marked slowdown as the region's single currency, the euro, appreciated strongly against...

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...pid accumulation of waste made me eager to begin my voyage into the deepest regions of the solar system searching for a hospitable settlement site f... ... began to become evident to the more economically advanced countries of the western world that several factors were making it impossible to care for ... ...ar babies. The 60s saw an increase in the cold war between the East and the West as it ushered in the self-centered times of the hippies—and sex and ... ...ince the 80s the upheavals of Communist governments in the East allowed the western people to rest a little easier but the violent fanaticism of rel... ...on? “ —“Because of the one child per family rule in China, its trial in Singapore and the drop in the fertility rate in much of Europe the rate ... ...f they wanted to. They can’t see a hope for a better future. But in Europe, Singapore and China—all countries that either have arrived at or are rush... ... the percentage of elderly in the population. Europe and Japan are the only regions where the number of people aged 60 and over outnumber the childr...

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...k. She knew his jet lag was slowing him up, he was still lagging somewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea... ...llness, such as depression that affects people in most populations, in the West drugs and therapy are usually the preferred treatment, in the underde... ...e I was accompanied by CDs containing the great books of the East and the West. I read the Bible and the Koran several times. I read Aristotle and Pl... ...ar from some people because an 18 year old American citizen, a resident of Singapore, was subjected to a fine, some time in jail, and was to be struc... ...w citizens. Our government interceded and asked that it not be done. The Singapore government, in deference to our omniscient and omnipotent America... ...is young artist's human rights. I wonder if we would have approved if the Singapore court had ruled for capital punishment? That certainly fits with... ...40% Muslim, 30% Orthodox and 15% Catholic in a much more ethnically mixed region. Kosavo was 80% Muslim and about 10% each of Catholics and Orthodox... ...moving everyone in a minority ethnic or religious group from the majority region.‖ ―In the U.S., perhaps because of the influx of people f... ...course all these benefits are paid for by taxes. The maximum national and regional tax in Sweden is 56%, compared with about 43% in the USA. Unlike ...

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...t Pg 892 Choice and Will Pg 890 Passion Pg 900 Innocence Pg 901 Modern Western Society Pg 903 The Consumer Dynamic Pg 915 The Destruction ... ...ms that use almost no water to process dead energy-matter in deserts and arid regions of the Earth into living organic matter. Life never created ... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...ms that use almost no water to process dead energy-matter in deserts and arid regions of the Earth into living organic matter. Life never created ... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...es. For at least 25 million years. Erupting at different times in different regions. And spreading their devastation for kilometers… even hundred... ...be forced to drive, or fly, or sail to the original factories in Malaysia, or Singapore, to get rid of them. And pray you still have the receipts f... ...y left. And the British colonies in the East? The Robber Baron cities of Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; are now all bastions of super-capi... ...are all desperately scrambling to create the same desolation of Hong Kong and Singapore. The only good that came out of the British Empire; was the ...

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...; - drawn-poems; - poems in Pirissanorench (language spoken in the South-West of the United States by a single person!); - super-poems; 6 - gra... ...or doing research. In histories of arts, literature, science you see only westerners: - rare exceptions of other people being in there confirm the r... ... than their male proponents. The women have more rights than men in western societies (in divorce trials). Social Paradox: In a democracy sho... ...es paradox: a frontal bald man, with a hair high density on the remaining region of his head, may have more hairs on his head that another man who is... ...-1999. [71] Hellerstein, N. S., DELTA, Α Paradox Logic, World Scientific, Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong, 1999. [72] Hoffmann, Banesh, Th...

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...ed that his departure from Lon- don would create a lively sensation at the West End. The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club, and af- forde... ... arrivals at each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and Lon- don—from ... ... The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal. This matter of fuelling steamers is ... ... to reach Bombay, and the sea was favourable, the wind being in the north- west, and all sails aiding the engine. The steamer rolled but little, the l... ... hopes and wishes were now centred on Hong Kong; for the steamer’s stay at Singapore would be too brief to enable him to take any steps there. The arr... ...goon before her arrival. This was easy to do, since the steamer stopped at Singapore, whence there is a telegraphic wire to Hong Kong. He finally reso... ... and the travellers could observe the picturesque beauties of the mountain region through which they were steaming. The railway track wound in and out... ...les of the Humboldt Range, and half-past nine when it penetrated Utah, the region of the Great Salt Lake, the sin- gular colony of the Mormons. 126 A... ... for the banks of the Great Salt Lake, where, in the midst of that fertile region, directly on the route of the emigrants who crossed Utah on their wa...

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... too, goes on—till one perceives ahead a shadow- line warning one that the region of early youth, too, must be left behind. This is the period of life... ...nd dreary chatterer. And it was probably like this everywhere—from east to west, from the bottom to the top of the social scale. A great discouragemen... ...lmost insulting. Insulting to one’s intelligence, I mean. In that twilight region between youth and maturity, in which I had my being then, one is pec... ...o by that time. Extreme patience and extreme care would see me through the region of broken land, of faint airs, and of dead water to where I would fe... ...e volunteered a warning. “Whatever you do keep to the east side of it. The west side is dangerous at this time of the year. Don’t let anything tempt ... ... hardly have come in by herself,” I observed. “But why didn’t you make for Singapore instead?” His eyes wavered. “The nearest port,” he muttered sulle... ...ry com- mand from lack of a qualified master to put over his head. Whereas Singapore, he surmised justly, would be full of quali- fied men. But his na... ...mself. It was very present to my mind. He advised me earnestly to cable to Singapore for a chief officer, even if I had to delay my sailing for a week... ... for him to do. The ship had no steerage way. She lay with her head to the west- ward, the everlasting Koh-ring visible over the stern, with a few sma...

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...ur members or our as- sociate members.” In my wanderings about London from west to east and back again (I was very idle then) the two little rooms in ... ...ade me, through all my sea wanderings, ever to achieve the crossing of the Western Ocean—using the words in that special sense in which sailors speak ... ...which sailors speak of W estern Ocean trade, of W estern Ocean packets, of Western Ocean hard cases. The new life attended closely upon the old, and t... ...ere to be visited on my mature head. Y es. I did go there: there being the region of Stanley Falls, which in ’68 was the blankest of blank spaces on t... ...nd a curly wisp of it strayed across his fore- head. I had heard of him at Singapore; I had heard of him on board; I had heard of him early in the mor... ...left a ship in Samarang with a hurt back, and have been in the hospital in Singapore some weeks.” He sighed. “Trade is very bad here.” “Indeed!” “Hope... ...red to Jupiter)—and he ad- dresses me in the stillness of that passionless region, neither 71 Joseph Conrad light nor darkness, neither sound nor sil...

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...ur mem- bers or our associate members.” In my wanderings about London from West to East and back again (I was very idle then) the two little rooms in ... ...ade me, through all my sea wanderings, ever to achieve the crossing of the Western Ocean—using the words in that special sense in which sailors speak ... ...tern Ocean—using the words in that special sense in which sailors speak of Western Ocean trade, of Western Ocean packets, of Western Ocean hard cases.... ...were to be visited on my mature head. Yes. I did go there: there being the region of Stanley Falls which in ’68 was the blankest of blank spaces on th... ... and a curly wisp of it strayed across his forehead. I had heard of him at Singapore; I had heard of him on board; I had heard of him early in the mor... ... left a ship in Samarang with a hurt back and have been in the hospital in Singapore some weeks.” He sighed. “Trade is very bad here.” “Indeed!” “Hope... ...red to Jupiter)—and he ad- dresses me in the stillness of that passionless region, neither light nor darkness, neither sound nor silence, and heaving ...

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...imber mostly. His ship was well known in all the ports from Vladivostok to Singapore. She was his own property. The profits had been moderate, but the... ...uid skeletons that drifted endlessly to and fro, north and south, east and west, upon that carcase of a ship. And in this lies the grotesque horror of... ...profound si- lence, there crept out into the cold, cruel dawn of Antarctic regions, from various hiding-places, over the deck of that dis- mantled cor...

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...out there, but all were locked; and at last she found her way to the lower regions, guided by voices in eager tones of subdued gossip. There, in the g... ...er the prisoner’s face; but by carrying the 207 Yo n g e inquiry into the region of character and opinion, he opened the door to a dangerous re-exami... ...s though he had had a promise of Leonard’s life, and convinced that in the region to which the spirits of Ethel and her pupil could mount, resignation... ...hat little brother of his that sailed with me in the Eurydice, and died at Singapore—I know how he looked to his brother Charles, and I do assure you,... ...Averil with her judgment in making the necessary pur- chases for ‘stepping westward.’ When Averil wrote their plans to her English friends, she felt t... ...he unconcealed contempt with which the mass of luggage was regarded by the Western world, who ‘reckoned it would be fittest to make kindlings with.’ H... ... stared and said, ‘Why, Doctor, I thought she was not your old woman!’—the West- ern epithet of a wife. But as Cora was quite content to leave Miss be...

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... the virtues of four nations have been dis- played in the conquest of that region that even to this day has not been robbed of all the mystery and rom... ... much their country as the earth of their islands—has fallen a prey to the western race—the reward of superior strength if not of superior virtue. To-... .... But the wasted lives, for the few who know, have tinged with romance the region of shallow waters and forest-clad islands, that lies far east, and s... ...f its arid heights. Separated by a narrow strip of water, Suroeton, to the west, shows a curved and ridged outline resembling the backbone of a stoopi... ...mall brig that had lain all the afternoon a few miles to the northward and westward of Carimata had hardly altered its position half a mile during all... ...rthward of you to-day. The chief officer is in her with orders to make for Singapore. I am second, and was sent off toward the Straits here on the cha... ...stily. “Look here, Mr. Carter, which way was your chief officer trying for Singapore? Through the Straits of Rhio?” “I suppose so,” answered Carter in... ...breathless rigidity of his body. The boat soared and descended slowly; a region of foam and reefs stretched across her course hissing like a gi- gan...

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...in Rich- mond, V a., who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a duty... ...ned, how- ever, in latitude 35 degrees 30' north, longitude 61 degrees 20' west, and consequently at no very great distance from the Bermuda Islands. ... ...g- gest. The representations of Peters, who had frequently vis- ited these regions, had great weight, apparently, with the muti- neers, wavering, as t... ...h him respecting the Pacific Ocean, and the islands he had visited in that region. He asked him whether be would not like to go with the mutineers on ... ...a partisan. July 5th. About daybreak there came on a stiff breeze from the west, which at noon freshened into a gale, so that the brig could carry not... ...headed the brig to the southwest, with the intention of making some of the West India islands in pur- suance of his piratical designs. No opposition w... ... four dollars; small car- goes, however, will often bring more in Manilla, Singapore, and Batavia.” An agreement having been thus entered into, we pro...

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...nd it has good authority for this variation, but it al ways settles between west and south southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth s... ...its which have been thought to be non returning curves, in this case opening westward, in which my house occupies the place of the sun. I turn round a... ...our, until I decide, for a thousandth time, that I will walk into the south west or west. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free. Thithe... ..., “‘From what part of the world have you come?’ As if these vast and fertile regions would naturally be the place of meeting and common country of all... ...We are told that within three miles of the center of the East Indian city of Singapore, some of the inhabitants are annually carried off by tigers; bu... ...ve been written the words which Dante read over the entrance to the infernal regions,—”Leave all hope, ye that enter”—that is, of ever getting out aga...

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...ed the aircraft. 12 All five hijackers passed through the Main T erminal’s west security screen- ing checkpoint; United Airlines, which was the respon... ...- jour, placed two carry-on bags on the X-ray belt in the Main T erminal’s west checkpoint, and proceeded, without alarm, through the metal detector. ... ... was disengaged; the aircraft was at 7,000 feet and approximately 38 miles west of the Pentagon. 59 At 9:32, con- trollers at the Dulles Terminal Rada... ...ht—Delta 1989—that in fact was not hijacked.At 9:19, the FAA’s New England regional office called Herndon and asked that Cleveland Cen- ter advise Del... ... at the FAA’s 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers. They are grouped under regional offices and coordinate closely with the national Air Traffic Contr... ...r Defense Sector (NEADS) NORAD Headquarters Continental Aerospace Command Region (CONR) Cleveland Center Indianapolis Center New Y ork Center FAA Air... ...ation headed by Indonesian Islamists with cells scattered across Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It also aided a Pakistani group ... ...ly, KSM’s proposals to Atef around this same time for attacks in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Maldives were never executed, although Hambal... ...Afghanistan. By 1998, Hambali would assume responsibility for the Malaysia/Singapore region within Sungkar’s newly formed terrorist organiza- tion, th...

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...ter of rocks is situ- ated in 0 degs. 58' north latitude, and 29 degs. 15' west longitude. It is 540 miles distant from the coast of America, and 350 ... ...tation, certainly appeared in much fewer numbers than in our own temperate regions. I was much surprised at the hab- its of Papilio feronia. This butt... ...a clavipes of Fabricius, which was formerly said by Sloane to make, in the West Indies, webs so strong as to catch birds. A small and pretty kind of s... ...cturesque. To *Hearne’s Journey, p. 383. 54 The V oyage of the Beagle the westward the view extended over an immense level plain as far as the Mount,... ...thorns, which seem to warn the stranger not to enter on these inhospitable regions. The settlement is situated eighteen miles up the river. The road f... ...arm mineral springs — the wide expanse and depths of the ocean — the upper regions of the atmosphere, and even the surface of perpetual snow — all sup... ... ports being oil from the nut, and the nuts themselves, which are taken to Singapore and Mauritius, where they are chiefly used, when grated, in makin...