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		<title>REFLECTIONS ON THE ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susie Hoeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[REFLECTIONS ON THE ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW
Susie L. Hoeller, J.D.
May 26, 2010
Introduction
On April 23, 2010, the Arizona Governor signed into law, the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” (“S.B. 1070”). Section 1 of S.B. 1070 sets forth the legislative intent as follows:
“The legislature finds that there is a compelling interest in the cooperative enforcement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Informal Look at Democratic Ideals and Democratic Realities</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=150</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discussions and Stories II
An Informal Look at Democratic Ideals and Democratic Realities
By David Armando Zelaya







I last asked for a step forward. I now ask for a step back.  I ask that you step back from the minute by minute news ticker in perpetual rotation and instead exchange those minutes for days, your days for months, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIQUID GLASS NANOTECHNOLOGY</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=143</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIQUID GLASS NANOTECHNOLOGY (a comment on nanotechnology)
GIOIETTA KUO
senior fellow, American center for international policy studies. amcips.org
kuo@amcips.org
2-3-10
We have all heard of nanotechnology, but so far few of us can point to a particular field where its application has radically changed our lives. Finally something wonderful has to come onto the market which is about to revolutionize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate Solution To Save Our Planet</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=139</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ultimate Solution To Save Our Planet
Gioietta Kuo
Senior Fellow, American Center for International Policy Studies, amcips.org
may 31 2009
Almost all of us have a long wish list of how to solve the most urgent problems facing the world today. Starting with global warming, how do we grow forests, preserve water, energy and the list goes on. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party Survival In The Aftermath Of India’s Independence</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=134</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[” Party Survival In The Aftermath Of India’s Independence”
By Spencer Peacock.
Imagine taking a glance at a ballot in the distant future and surprisingly notice that one of the major parties is not listed. While it may seem like a dream come true to some, part disintegration is something that is very real for some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VERTICAL FARMING</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=129</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gioietta Kuo
Senior fellow, American Center for International Policy Studies amcips.org
Nov 1 2009
Recently, UN Convention to Combat Decertification meeting in Argentina has issued a warning that drought could parch close to 70% of the planet’s soil by 2025. Currently drought is already affecting at least 41% of the planet and environmental degradation has caused it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discussions and Stories</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=120</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Informal Look at Democratic Ideals and Democratic Realities
By David Armando Zelaya







Democracy, much like anything else, loses its sense of charm when studied diligently. It no longer seems elegant, inspiring, or special. Much to the disappointment of cherished ideals, it begins to look like an over-complicated dastardly thing that more deserves scorn than praise. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gasoline From Grass</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=115</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biofuel Grassoline &#8211; Gasoline From Grass
Gioietta Kuo
Augusr 8 2009
Senior Fellow, American  Center for International Policy Studies  amcips.org
It present 25% of world energy is  consumed by transport  using mostly oil.  As oil is on the wane, new echnologies are appearing both in the kind of motor car we drive and the fuel we use.
It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agriculture with sea water</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=113</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agriculture with sea water
Gioietta Kuo  May 11 2009
Senior Fellow,  American  Center for International Policy Studies amcips.org
It is commonly believed that salt is bad for agriculture.  But people living on the shores of India have had a saline based agricultural  system for hundreds of years    Intensive research is under way by scientists at NASA in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia’s Stance on Kosovo and Other Separatist Regions</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=100</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Rowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Randall Rowe &#8211; rowerand@gmail.com
Mr. Rowe is a graduate of Michigan State University with a B.A. in Russian and East  European Studies.
On February 17, 2008, before a quorum of the Assembly of Kosovo, a new country officially asserted its independence from Serbia and became The Republic of Kosovo. Soon after this proclamation, the international [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=99</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Published in Guang Ming Daily, Beijing, March 16  2009.
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CHARLES DARWIN  AND NATURAL SELECTION
Gioietta Kuo   Feb 11 2009
On the very  fundamental question of &#8216;who made man&#8217;  there is a strong dichotomy in the  world.  On the one hand are the Christians who believe in one God who created  man though there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics and Animal Research</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=98</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.W. Yovic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sydney Yovic
Ethics and Animal Research
 
            Preface: The thoughts and opinions that I am attempting to disprove or debate are all intelligent arguments for animal research. As I explored this controversial subject, I ran into many of these same opinions coupled with religious belief. I must preface this paper by saying I have disregarded any and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE  IMPORTANCE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=97</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gioietta Kuo
(Dr. Kuo is a Senior Research Fellow for the American Center for International  Studies)
INTRODUCTION
About  2 years ago, the consensus of world&#8217;s eminent climatologists  like Sir David  King and Dr James Hansen  were unified in their opinion that the world could  survive eventually 450 ppm &#8211; parts per million, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=96</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marc Prensky
From On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001)
© 2001 Marc Prensky
It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Our Debt to Posterity</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=95</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoeHenderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis McCuistion
After a century of world economic leadership blemished primarily by government mistakes which created the Great Depression, the United States through its military power, essentially won the first and second World Wars and the Cold War.  America&#8217;s leadership role was a beacon for dozens of countries that moved away from socialist/totalitarian systems and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Of World’s Food Security</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=94</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gioietta Kuo July 21 2008
Senior Fellow,  American Center for international Policy Studies,  amcips.org
In a  new book by Lester Brown: “ Ourgrowing The Earth, the food challenge in an age  of falling water tables and rising temperatures”,  he makes the point that  as  our population increases and our economy grows, our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Growing Global Oil Crisis</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=80</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As translated into Chinese and published in PEOPLE&#8221;S DAILY, Beijing, on Aug 26 2008
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The Growing Global Oil Crisis
Gioietta Kuo   July 8 2008
As the price of oil keeps on shooting up to an unprecedented level of over $100 a barrel, many experts like Goldman and Sachs of New York predict that the price will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News for Consumers &#8211; Congress Reforms the CPSC – Food Safety Must Be Next</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=78</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susie Hoeller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 14, 2008, President Bush signed into  law the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (the “Act”). This legislation, sponsored by Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR), comes a year after  last summer’s recalls of millions of toys. It took the recalls and the deaths  and hospitalizations of children resulting from magnets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do some civilizations collapse and others survive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ An eminent biologist and anthropologist Jared Diamond recently  examined a very fundamental question: “Why did some civilizations like that of Easter island, the Maya empire and Greenland Norse collapse in history while others like Iceland and Japan survive for thousands of years?”  It is very important to answer this question for it is for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$200 Oil &#8211; reprint of article in China Daily</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=76</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gioietta Kuo (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-06-10 08:08
 
As the price of oil exceeds $135 a barrel, Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank, predicts that the oil price will reach $200 a barrel in the next year.
Mamdouh Salameh, advisor to the World Bank and UN Industrial Development Organization, said that if not for the Iraq War, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting Research Informed Policies:  Options for Overcoming Hunger and Food Price Crisis in Africa</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=75</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Mwaijande</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low food production capacity in developing countries, particularly in Africa is one of the major contributing factor for hunger and food price crisis. Above all, inadequate research informed policies for agricultural growth deepen the hunger and food price crisis. There is policy gap to support biofood technology in African countries that not only reduces capacity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba and Haiti: The Alternative Fuel Mixture</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=74</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 19:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is now a movement away from alternative fuels, mainly due to the shortage and high price of food products, such as corn, that is also used to make ethanol. Other arguments against ethanol are that it may be costlier to make than the current cost to refine crude oil. The Morning News,(by Aoife White, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiscal Policy:  How to Reign in Destructive Economic Behavior.</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=68</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamYovic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Adam Smith, the famed 18th century economist, articulated the principles and differences between labor and capital.  In simpler times, most workers simply sold their labor in exchange for wages. The earning power of a worker was a function of how many hours he or she could work at a given wage. Capital, on the hand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Bill and Melinda Gates.</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=67</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=67#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This letter was written in June 2006 when the philanthropist  Warren Buffet made a huge donation ~ $35 billion to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the purpose of philanthropic distribution around the world.  At the time, much fanfare was made by Gates in the  press on how to use this money to reduce infant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Population Explosion</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=66</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=66#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was translated into Chinese and published on Oct 8 2007 in People’s Daily , the official organ of the Chinese government.
 
Our planet is too small for 6,500,000,000 people.
 
Recent warning by United nation Population Programme (UNPP) is that the world is adding one billion more people every 12-13 years.  The forecast is that from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heparin Contamination &#8211; Another Case Study for Corporate Social Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=63</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=63#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susie Hoeller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nineteen deaths and nearly 800 life-threatening allergic reactions may be linked to contaminated heparin sold by Baxter International Inc. (“Baxter”) of Deerfield, Illinois. Heparin is used as a blood thinner in cardiac surgery and kidney dialysis.  On March 20, 2008, The New York Times reported:  “Federal drug regulators, in announcing Wednesday that the mystery contaminant in heparin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Side of the Coin; a Look at Social Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=62</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2008 edition “Remembrances” section printed the obituaries of Professor Joseph Weizenbaum and Mr. Elmer W. Johnson. 
Joseph Weizenbaum was a computer pioneer that authored a unique program called “Eliza.”  It was named after Shaw’s ingénue in “Pygmalion.”  Professor Weizenbaum was a pioneer in computer development, but later on began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lead and Magnets &#8211; More News from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=61</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=61#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susie Hoeller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 18, 2008, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Reebok International Ltd. will pay a $ 1,000,000 civil penalty for importing and distributing charm bracelets that contained toxic levels of lead. In March 2006, a four year old boy from Minneapolis swallowed the bracelet’s heart shaped pendant and died.
The penalty is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Brother is On the Move&#8230;..again!</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=60</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=60#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical/health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, March 18, 2008, the “Personal Journal” section of The Wall Street Journal carried an article titled “Why Hospitals Want Your Credit Report.” There are many companies that specialize in data mining; accumulating a mass of personal information ranging from your buying habits and political inclinations, to your credit rating. The list includes health care specialization companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secession and Self-Determination &#8211; The United States and Serbia Compared</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=59</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=59#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susie Hoeller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1619, a ship carrying African slaves landed at Jamestown, Virginia. Even though Congress had banned the future importation of slaves in 1807; the abolition of slavery itself could not be resolved through political negotiations. The Southern states would not voluntarily agree to abolish slavery and in the years leading up to the Civil War, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Court of Last Resort</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=58</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although there were many previous incidents, the initial alarm regarding the seriousness, depth and breadth of China’s lack of food and toy safety began in March of 2007. This was the largest recall in history regarding the import of a product from China that was mixed with pet food. This resulted in the death of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Housing Market and Economic Recovery</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=57</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=57#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The February 29, 2008 edition of The Morning News contained an editorial titled “Experts Urge Congress’ Help” which urged action to insulate commercial real estate from a still-crumbling housing market. In the meantime there are regional pockets in the U.S. where developers are still constructing commercial properties while other nearby commercial properties are vacant and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The United States Stands Firm On Human Rights! Right?</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=56</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=56#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Fidel Castro is out of the Cuban leadership spotlight, some think this an opportune time to begin taking steps toward normalization of our relationship with that country. Most leaders who discuss this issue are careful to preface their comments with a statement that we will not trade with Cuba or proceed with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m From The Government and I&#8217;m Here To Help You&#8230;Trust Me!</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=55</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=55#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having scheduled my annual physical examination, I was at the point of checking in with the receptionist when she asked me to fill out a new form. Another of the many reasons why I hate going to a doctor’s office, but I just mentally checked it off as just another form necessary for today’s bureaucratically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing American Jobs</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=54</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years, we have watched the movement of jobs overseas to countries like Mexico, China and India.  In the meantime our U.S. unemployment lines continue to grow and our “rust belt” cities continue to decline as manufacturing jobs disappear. Equipment has been moved to developing countries with low manufacturing costs which are underpinned by wages so low that they could often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Daze</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=50</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=50#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently it was stated on Lou Dobbs Tonight that the graduation rate of high school students is only 64% for Hispanics, 60% for African Americans and 80% for White students. When compared to the 60% and 64% figures, the 80% looks good, but it is not good enough. When compared to other countries our schools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limits on Wind Power and Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=49</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=49#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Renewable energy sources like wind and solar energy cannot solve completely the world&#8217;s energy problems. Nuclear power is the only alternative especially since there is urgency in reducing CO emission as fast as we can. When Jim Hansen, director of Climatology at NASA Goddard Space Center USA, was asked what we can possibly do about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of the Family Farm</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=48</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=48#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On January 31, 2008 tens of thousands of Mexican farmers marched in the streets of Mexico City to protest the end of tariffs on corn imported from the United States. This lifting of tariffs on corn is under the NAFTA Agreement that also included the removal of tariffs on beans, sugar and milk. This was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Spending on &#8220;Defense&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=45</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=45#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.W. Yovic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me today as I was sitting in the student center of my university talking with friends about problems with environmental issues and their relation to the economy that maybe the way countries spend there money has to do with priorities. This seems quite obvious that a country allocates its revenues based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pillaging The Earth</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=42</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=42#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran an article on January 20, 2008, titled “Timber Thieves Strike at the Heart of Lands Private and Public”. It reported that a 78 year old man had many old-growth trees on his property that supplied subsistence for his family in the form of selling syrup and firewood. A neighboring farmer crossed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramping up the Economy with a War-like Vengeance</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=33</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=33#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The current financial emergency and stock market plunge created by sub-prime mortgage lending, coupled with high fuel prices and trade agreements which led to the loss of thousands of American jobs, has caused a political knee-jerk reaction within the Bush Administration and the gridlocked “do nothing” Congress. There have been proposals on the table regarding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Role of Foreign Assistance</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=34</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given many threats to national security in the post-9/11 world, U.S. foreign assistance must address more than humanitarian and developmental goals. Conditions of instability and insecurity that arise from terrorism, trans-national crime, failing states, and global disease must be mitigated for sustained economic and social development to take root and flourish. Thus, U.S. foreign assistance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Economy</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=32</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=32#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.W. Yovic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trade barriers such as tariffs are not a bad policy tool despite what mulitnational corporations will tell you. When used effectivly they insulate domestic markets from global production costs differnces. They are nessary to keeping a healthy and diversified economy. Fourteen years after the start of NAFTA we can look and see what it has done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes and related issues</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=18</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=18#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All during the current presidential campaign there has been much ado about TAXES.  Who has the best record for cutting taxes?  Who has the worst record for raising taxes?  How are the taxpayers going to pay for all the earmarks that will raise taxes?  What about paying for the war in Iraq since it appears we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration Perspective</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=17</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=17#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration and Insecure Borders  &#8211; Who is to Blame?
Rather than turn their ire against illegal aliens, American citizens should direct their anger toward two governments, the Government of Mexico and the U.S. Government.   After all, most illegal aliens come to the United States in pursuit of work, which will allow them to feed, clothe and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Development In High Growth Corridors</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=16</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Missing Ingredients For Sustainable Development  In High Growth Corridors
Over the last century there has been considerable interest in protecting the environment and during the last several decades in particular, there has been some progress in the creation of the general interest towards organic gardening, solar energy, wind energy, so called &#8220;green products&#8221; that are totally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generational Conflict</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=15</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=15#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Other New Americans
Upon consideration of various efforts regarding teaching immigrants about America, and lifting the veil of hyphenated descriptive nouns; i.e. German-American, African-American, Irish-American, etc., one has to consider where to start in order to finally end the hatred and xenophobic fears the permeate our society.
As The American Center for International Policy Studies (www.amcips.org) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Altered States</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=14</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodore M. Hoeller Sr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An unlevel playing field in athletics and academics
Marion Jones, an Olympic medal winner and outstanding athlete ended up in disgrace, having to give up her medals and sentenced to six months in jail for lying to federal investigators.  All this came about through her use of steroids.
Rappers Wyclef Jean, 50 Cent, Timbaland and other rap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A JUST WAR CRITIQUE</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=13</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susie Hoeller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A JUST WAR CRITIQUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY&#8217;S INTERVENTION IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA BETWEEN 1992 AND 1995•I.                    INTRODUCTION
This paper sets forth an ethical examination, using the just-war criteria, of the international community&#8217;s intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina (&#8220;Bosnia&#8221;) between 1992-1995. On March 3, 1992, Bosnia, a republic in Yugoslavia, legally declared independence, following in the footsteps of its sister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Call</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=12</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susie Hoeller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, January 12, 2008, a female high school runner was disqualified from running in a track meet in the Washington D.C. suburbs. Juashaunna Kelly, who is one of the fastest student runners in the D.C. area, was not allowed to participate at the meet because she wears a unitard that covers her head, arms, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHERE IS THE MONEY?</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=73</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Moore sparked a long overdue debate on nuclear energy ­ Washington Post, 4/17/06. The sad reality is, there are NO options open to us except nuclear energy.
Renewables like wind and solar energy are prohibitively expensive in capital cost, about $4700 ­ 7500/Kilowatt. Since wind does not blow nor the sun shine all the time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FROM RUSSIA FOR LOVE, TO AMERICA IN DANGER</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=72</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Schwamkrug, J.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE RUSSIAN MAIL-ORDER BRIDE INDUSTRY: 
FROM RUSSIA FOR LOVE, TO AMERICA IN DANGER
By Lisa Schwamkrug, J.D.
Natasha* is in her late thirties, divorced, and a mother of two children. Natasha wanted nothing more than to find a man to share her life with. Although she is well educated and holds a degree from an engineering institute, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comments on &#8220;Collapse&#8221; By Jared Diamond</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=70</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=70#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The difference between Jared Diamond, biologist, anthropologist, historian and geographer, to name but a few of his qualifications and other great thinkers of our generation is that he is not afraid to ask some truly fundamental questions concerning human existence and actually proceeds to answer them. In his Pulitzer Prize winning book &#8216;Guns, Germs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Winter&#8217;s Musings &#8211; Civilization&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=69</link>
		<comments>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=69#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gioietta Kuo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The word civilization is used nowadays to describe the social organization and culture of any distinct group of people. However, having grown up under the influence of English humanist social thinkers of the post war years, I tend to associate &#8216;civilization&#8217; with the word &#8216;civilized&#8217;. In other words, a &#8216;civilization&#8217; can be &#8216;civilized&#8217; or &#8216;uncivilized&#8217;.
One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear proliferation, threats and solutions</title>
		<link>http://amcipsreports.net/amcipsblog/?p=71</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vladimir Knapp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF HUMANISTS CONGRESS
Humanism, world peace and globalization
Dubrovnik, 23 to 26. October 2005
Nuclear proliferation, threats and solutions
Vladimir Knapp
Croatian Nuclear Society,
Croatian Pugwash Group
Abstract
Nuclear war would, no doubt, endanger the very existence of mankind. Nuclear arms race during the cold war era was one the most inhumane aberration of human mind. However, almost twenty years later [...]]]></description>
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