... -Development," Aram Ziai provides an introductory look at the discussions of post-development theory, taking a cursory look at the various arguments for, or against, post-development. Ziai expertly delivers an overview of the post-development movement, having arisen in the 1980s as a response to the dissatisfaction with the concept and practice of "development" already in place. Ziai more or ... ...

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INTRODUCTION Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) was initially outlined from the results of studies into the encephalopathy (brain function/disorder) of `petit-mal' seizures by Lennox and Davis (1950), and was later expanded to its now widely accepted form as a syndrome by Gastaut, Roger, Soulayrol, Tassinari, Regis, Dravet, Bernard, Pinscard, and Saint-Jean (1966). LGS is described as having three interrelated symptoms, consisting of the following: 1. Epileptic seizures (axial tonic, atypical absences, atonic seizures, and less frequently - myoclonias, generalised tonic-clonic, and partial seizures...

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... experienced something of a power vacuum making it difficult to establish stable authority, particularly where national borders had been drawn with a ruler to suit colonial administrators. A combination of guilt, altruism and Cold War geopolitical interests (trying to ˜save' the developing world for capitalism) encouraged an international search for solutions to these problems, even after independence. Governments of developing countries have been ... circumstances, being relatively quick off the mark in the development process and having experienced some industrialization during pre-Wa...

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... committees such as the Spaak committee suggested further integration of the European economy. In 1959, the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community. As security interests evolved and the Cold War collapse brought on global instability, in 1991 in the Maastricht Treaty, European nations agreed to design the European Union, composed of three organizations: the European Community (economics and monetary ... opposed to the exact plan necessary for achieving these results, the organizations may change and develop in accordance with the world situation to achieve these end-r...

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... no sports fans like Pittsburgh sports fans. The connesieur of Pittsburgh sports is a die-hard, camping in the parking lot a week prior to ticket sales for an important game, braving cold and inclemate weather to root for the home team, caring and sharing at tailgates, with their sizzling grills open to hungry fellow fans that should happen to pass by. These ... , "Thank you for everything." The city came together on the frozen morning of February 11, 2001, to say goodbye to a city sports legend: Three Rivers Stadium. Despite the penetrating winter cold and whipping river winds, the fans ...

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... undistorting mirror of, or perfectly transparent window to, the "real" is fraught with contradictions. Realism in this simplified sense must assume a one-to-one relationship between the signifier (the word, "tree" for example) and the thing it represents (the actual arboreal object typically found in forests). Realism must, in effect, disguise its own status as artifice, must try and force language ... ...

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... the wet nurse Jeanne Bussie or Father Terrier, who "felt sick to his stomach. Gone was the homey thought that this might be his own flesh and blood. A strange cold creature lay there on his knees, a hostile animal" (Suskind 8). Because of the third person narrative perspective of this novel, the reader is not only able to be spoken to ... ...

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... (intellectuals) survives the selection by job market and educational opportunities. Overall, intense competition contributes to the expansion of collective intelligence. In the article Exploiting the Exiles Soviet Émigrés in U.S. Cold War Strategy, Mikkonen explores the Russian-United States immigration protocol and how such process affects the collective intelligence. In his argument, Mikkonen describes the benefits of immigration as "This ... ...

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... World War was supposed to spark a "new world- of peace and freedom for all. Amidst the victory over Nazi Germany however, a new fear was born, coined by history as the "Cold War-. In Italy the people had won the right to vote in a "free- election and choose the type of government they deemed fit to effectively govern the nation. The 1948 ... ...

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... in the United States and the apparel industry is one of the largest industries in Los Angeles . Surpassing the once mighty aviation industry, which suffered in the aftermath of the cold war because of military cutbacks. What enabled the garment industry in Los Angeles to grow like this when the rest of the country was experiencing cut backs in its home ... ...

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... become member states, forging a stronger security infrastructure for Europe internationally. "The North Atlantic Treaty has continued to guarantee the security of its member countries. Today, following the end of the Cold War and of the division of Europe, the Alliance has been restructured to enable it to contribute more effectively to the development of cooperative security structures for the whole of ... ...

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... cut both ways, allowing most to see Kennedy as a hero, still some as a villain. The man who saved the world from nuclear war in the Cuban missile crisis, or the cold war warrior who brought the world to the brink of destruction, The lost leader who could have saved the agony of Vietnam, or the man who set the scene for ... ...

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