World Affairs

That may seem like a silly question Surely everyone knows that we need to begin to develop renewable energy solutions sooner, rather than later

The government adapted strict monetary and fiscal policies to control the rate of inflation during this period Rigid monetary policies were used to limit credit expansion in the private sector

The First National Economic Development Plan continually emphasized development in Thailand The Second National Economic Development Plan continually emphasized the development of infrastructure in such areas as communication and transportation

The Second Plan (1967-1971): The Foundation of the Infrastructure The Thai economy was now in a new era of development since the initiation of the First Plan Toward the end of the First Plan

Economic Background for Investment in Thailand Until quite recently, Thailand had a reputation for being primarily a country which relied heavily on commodity exports, it used to be the world’s largest rice exporter However, this is no longer true, the agricultural exports used to represent more than 40 percent of the country’s export in the mid-80s

Yesterday saw a historic day for the divided island of Cyprus During the last 34 years the island has been split into what effectively count as two separate nations: Cyprus, and the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

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For decades the people and government of the US

Benji, the computer entity, was guiding the exploration of Saturn’s moons by Capt Marcos and his team of spatons (space robots) with his space ship ‘Napolean

The amount of warning time a tsunami warning system can provide depends on the distance between your location and the location of the undersea event A tsunami can travel 500 to 600 mph in deep water, slowing as it approaches shore

It is a matter of record that both President Dryden of the Prudential and President Knapp of the Metropolitan were close students of the Prudential of London Both went to London and witnessed the functioning of the business at first hand

The Worldwide General News (WGN) TV channel was inundated with questions about the danger from the LHC which was commissioned They decided to devote their next ‘Space Talk’ program to this subject

Is Australia's present drought a sign of global warming In our examination of the international controversy that is climate change and global warming, we've looked at the positions of both parties - the Scaremongers who fully support the theory, and the Idealists who want more concrete evidence

The theory of man-made climate change is based on mass hysteria not proven facts In the previous three articles about the world-wide controversy that is global warming, the position of the people who support this theory - the Scaremongers - has been explained and their core arguments commented upon

Climate change is an ongoing part of the evolution of Earth In the two previous parts of this investigation the basic differences between those who support the man-made global warming theory and those who don't has been highlighted It's time now to look at the past history of periods of world-wide climate change

A campaign of deception or ignorance In the first part of our look at the controversial theory of man-made global warming the issues presented by both those who believe in this theory - the Scaremongers - and those who don't - the Idealists - were analyzed and compared

Climate change - fact or fiction In the past dozen years or so a major controversy has developed through out the world about changes that are supposedly taking place with the earth's climate

Today the United States military branches treat African American soldiers with the respect they deserve but it wasn’t always so In the past during the American Revolution and the Civil War, men of color were slaves and though they may have served the U

Well, it look likes the folks in the Federal Reserve have pulled it off Money is once again flooding the markets, and the Dow Jones is responding

The Hawaiian Islands would not be here today if it were not for the volcanoes of the mid-Pacific There would be no Kauai, no Lanai, no Molokai, no Oahu, no Maui, and no Big Island

In preparing to write my novel Tsunami, about a fictional undersea volcano on the verge of exploding and sending a monster tsunami smashing into California, I did a great deal of research into the world of natural disasters I leaned heavily on NOAA, USGS, NASA and dozens of library and university sources for my information

While those of us in the US have been distracted with primaries, a general election, and a huge economic crisis, Russia's been making some moves that are raising flags and eyebrows in the intelligence community While some people actively scoff when a new cold war is mentioned, the concept is not really that far-fetched

Globally we have awakening to the serious problems facing the world’s dwindling fresh water supplies Irena Salina’s recent award winning film “Flow” addresses some eye-opening issues regarding our most precious resource