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… In June 2011, the non-governmental organization Global Commission on Drug … of methamphetamines. Yet, this contemporary arrangement was not always the case. The production, trafficking, and … Bolivia. During the colonial period (1532-1825), Spanish bureaucrats and elites largely viewed the consumption of …

… In 2018, the Canadian $10 bill had a new face. Viola Irene (Davis) … Black Canadians stood up to racial segregation. Desmond was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 6, 1914, into a … in court the next day without legal representation. When Desmond took the stand, she explained to the Magistrate …

… Penfield Jackson has ordered Microsoft broken in two, and the appeal has gone to the Supreme Court. Why is Microsoft … passed 110 years ago this month. That "charter of freedom" was designed to protect the core American value of free … The pace of business takeovers speeded up in the 1990s, but whenever one large corporation sought to acquire another it …

… and respirators. It is a world we are not prepared for. The biomedical, sanitary, and technological advances of the … to open air passages in the throat and lungs. Jeffreys was so deeply committed to climate’s role in disease that he … masks proved effective in stopping the spread of infection when used by doctors. Cloth was used for makeshift masks …

… will soon receive his party's $12.6 million, thanks to the Federal Election Commission, which ruled in a recent 5-1 … watched sadly as their candidate, Barry Goldwater, was beaten soundly by what they viewed as a liberal … of George Wallace. Wallace denounced "pointy-headed bureaucrats" and liberalism in general. Buchanan today does …

… For several years, Iran has been at the center of international attention because of its … has endured multiple invasions by either men or ideas, and was thus never a tightly unified or a culturally or … the regime that included different groups such as liberals, socialists, students, and religious scholars. Axworthy also …

… Over the course of the past year international negotiators have … met periodically in Vienna in an attempt to accomplish what was long considered a near-impossible task. Once again they … by comparing it to having “a friend who swallows us whenever he gets hungry.” Indeed, independence, …

… internal warfare and repeated U.S. military interventions, the PRI, the Spanish acronym for the Institutionalized … candidate elected on July 2, Vicente Fox Quesada, was cautious and not so populist as to alarm entrenched … a precedent. If Fox manages to sidestep the dinosaurs of bureaucracy, and if the PRI will abandon its strongholds of …

… reformas neoliberales mientras también pedían un gobierno socialista. Los manifestantes se reunieron junto a la …

… In the 1960s, famed paleontologist Louis Leakey challenged the … gorilla with an almost idealized image of a gorilla that was intelligent, family-oriented and peaceful. 1984 … invested we should become in their lives. However, when Walter Kronkite announced the murder of Digit by …

… Jimmy Carter. That's a pretty small group. Two have used up their two-term constitutional limit as presidents while the … Joe Biden's similar decades have merely made him merely a "Washington insider" apparently (although he too is a … administrative or political or foreign policy expertise. When each faced an unprecedented situation, he had the …

… “Therefore go, and make disciples, baptizing them in the name … obeying his commandments—among the most important of which was to love one’s neighbor (Matthew 22:39 NIV).  Cold War … mandate for biblical social justice.  For example, when discussing the Micah Network, made of numerous …

… Until the late nineteenth century, tribal nations across the … in which they resided. Indeed, the land allotment scheme was in one sense a project of social engineering , grounded … Chief of the Cherokee Nation had shown that “there was not a family in that whole Nation that had not a home of …

… Books with words like “sex,” “murder,” and “insanity” in their titles promise a level of excitement and intrigue … Fair’s case did not neatly fit the framework. Laura Fair was not the outraged spouse protecting the honor of her … the moral mythology of the United States and were evoked when convenient with little regard for the truth. In The …

… In the fall of 1984, Dr. Brigitte Vasset stood in the midst of … famine . As international aid entered the country, the Derg was allowed to continue its destructive war tactics. The … to cynicism, donor fatigue, and unintended consequences when aid actually makes the situation worse. By not trying …

… As national governments and the global scientific community struggle to contain the … world found itself at war once again. This time, the enemy was far deadlier, moving invisibly through society. The … influenza in the camp…There was bound to be something wrong when the boys begun to die by the hundreds.” Governmental …

… In April 2012, Viktor Bout, perhaps the single biggest private arms trader in the world, was convicted in a New York court and sentenced to … guns and 28 million cartridges shipped from Hamburg. When Bodosakis received Spanish requests for arms, he passed …

… Roman doctors described a disease called the sacred fire (sacer ignis) which by the Middle Ages came … to the Patient,” as one 1714 text put it. This disease was ergotism: poisoning produced by exposure to the … it took time for the genie to come out of its bottle. But when it finally did, the world changed. … Benjamin Breen … …

… On August 28th, America will commemorate the anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march was one of the … are considered poor. The numbers are equally disconcerting when it comes to unemployment as the jobless rate for …

… Ronald Reagan’s death, like the death of any president, raises the question of how he’ll … top ten — Bill Clinton (3), for example, outpolled George Washington (7) — seem unlikely to hold over the long term. … may never come to pass, but it’s still safe to say that when the history of the 20th century is written, the 40th …

… On August 15, Venezuela will face the most important election in its history. It’s a critical … seize the opportunity to support democracy in Venezuela. When Venezuelans return to the polls on Aug. 15, the United … again. It is a strange irony that the very same people in Washington who lauded the military coup against President …

… On October 1, 1949,  Mao Zedong (1893-1976) stood on the rostrum of Tian’anmen (The Gate of Heavenly Peace) and … balance of power in China. In 1937, the Chinese Civil War was temporarily halted as the two parties formed the Second … foreign invasions, culminating in the establishment of a socialist state that would play a central role both in World …