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• Rules of Protecting Your Assets

  
  IBS Pro! — Authority: 117
  When you something, you want to make sure you keep it. By investing in the right types of protection and assurance of your property and the things you hold inside it, you’ll be able to keep things that are valuable or have the ability to replace . One way you can protect your is the [...]
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• UK death in a home setting on the rise

  
  SAGE Insight — Authority: 103
  Reversal of the British trends in place of death: Time series analysis 2004–2010 From Palliative Medicine Although around two thirds of us would prefer to die at home, in the developed world the trend in recent years has been for the majority to spend their final days in an institutional setting. But ...
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• Educational Disadvantages Associated with Race Still Persist in Brazil Despite Improvements, New Study Shows

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 457
  Despite notable improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin. Although educational advantages for white over black and pardo (mixed-race) adolescents ...
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• Database of World Demographic Information

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 117
  If you’re looking for basic global demographic information, World Health Rankings provides a great overview, using World Health Organization, World Bank, UNESCO, and other data. The website allows you to select a country, then provides a detailed breakdown of many demographic details, such as population pyramids ...
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• Database of World Demographic Information

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 135
  If you’re looking for basic global demographic information, World Health Rankings provides a great overview, using World Health Organization, World Bank, UNESCO, and other data. The website allows you to select a country, then provides a detailed breakdown of many demographic details, such as population pyramids ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cities, Soap Operas, and the Declining Birth Rate in Latin America

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 117
  The declining birth rate in Latin America, depicted in this graph, is a nice example of the way that both cultural and social change affects individual choices.  Brazil is highlighted as an extreme case. It’s birthrate has fallen from over six children/woman in 1960 to under 1.9 today. The accompanying ...
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• Cities, Soap Operas, and the Declining Birth Rate in Latin America

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 135
  The declining birth rate in Latin America, depicted in this graph, is a nice example of the way that both cultural and social change affects individual choices.  Brazil is highlighted as an extreme case. It’s birthrate has fallen from over six children/woman in 1960 to under 1.9 today. The accompanying ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stephanopouloss debate bet with Diane Sawyer

  
  Pundit & Pundette — Authority: 600
  Unless its all tongue in cheek, this explains George Stephanopouloss curious perseverance in trying to get Mitt Romney to comment on banning contraceptives (not exactly a burning campaign issue) at the debate in New Hampshire. He tells Stephen Colbert that it was done on a bet with Diane Sawyer: COLBERT: OK, OK. ...
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• Building Commitment to Family Planning: Iran A Seemingly Unlikely Setting for the World’s Fastest Demographic Transition Elizabeth Leahy Madsen, Wilson Center

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 108
  This is the second post in a series profiling the process of building political commitment in countries whose governments have made strong investments in family planning. Read the first post, on Rwanda’s recent rapid demographic changes, here . To date, only 11 countries outside of the developed world, China, ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Andalusia Spring": Reclaiming "Occupied" Spain for Islam

  
  Middle East and Terrorism — Authority: 474
  by Soeren KernControversies over Islam dominated the Christmas and New Year holidays in Spain this year. These conflicts reflect the growing influence of Islam in Spain after mass immigration from Muslim countries. They are a harbinger of things to come, especially as the Muslim population in Spain is predicted to ...
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• Does marriage matter anymore?

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | A blog by Cameron Slater — Authority: 137
  There are various people out there trying to fathom the rapid drop in crime in the US. Charles Murray is one and produces this graph and suggests as the graph does that increased incarceration has been one of the leading causes for crime dropping and that we should keep locking them up : Another commentator ...
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• Dot Earth Blog: What Can U.S. Universities Do About a Student Stampede in Johannesburg?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 866
  A tragic student stampede in South Africa illustrates the opportunity for advancing global models for long-distance learning.
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• What Can U.S. Universities Do About a Student Stampede in Johannesburg?

  
  Dot Earth — Authority: 635
  A tragic student stampede in South Africa illustrates the opportunity for advancing global models for long-distance learning.
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• The Aggressors Are Almost Always Muslims

  
  Politically Incorrect - English Version — Authority: 417
  Christians in the northern part of the country of Nigeria were given an ultimatum to leave the area. This is actually being attributed by the German to an islamic sect, Boko Haram, somewhat like Nigeria’s Al Quaeda; however, this shouldn’t have anything to do with Islam. If it has nothing to do with Islam, why ...
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• Assessing Africa’s Youth Bulge Marc Sommers, Woodrow Wilson Center

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 108
  The original version of “ Governance, Security, and Culture: Assessing Africa’s Youth Bulge ,” by Marc Sommers, first appeared in the International Journal of Conflict and Violence , Vol. 5 (2), 2011. Although Africa has a youth-dominated population , African government policies are often not ...
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• New Year Special: 2012 Predictions

  
  Sublime Oblivion — Authority: 94
  It’s been a great year! To recap, in rough chronological order, 2011 saw: The most popular post (with 562 comments and counting; granted, most of them consisting of Indians and Pakistanis flaming each other); Visualizing the Kremlin Clans (joint project with Kevin Rothrock of A Good Treaty ); my National ...
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• Three New Reports Highlight Ongoing Significance of Youth Demographics in Global Trends Elizabeth Leahy Madsen, Wilson Center

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 108
  Amidst world population reaching seven billion and last year’s Arab Spring, which in some nations is continuing into this winter, it can be easy to miss emerging pieces of research that tell us something relatively objective about youth and instability. Three new studies give practitioners and policymakers a ...
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