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The Problem With Freelance Work
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on November 27, 2009
...ndividual, the problems with freelance work are simple. First, it is unreliable. It can be feast or famine. And when a business decides to cut you off, you quickly discover that you have no real right...
North Koreans in South Korea
in Global Mobility Report, on July 17, 2009
...ans - refugees from the North. Most have come since the mid-1990s, fleeing political repression and famine at home. Officials say about 3,000 more are arriving each year. The south has begun expanding...
Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part I
in IfEnergy, on December 26, 2008
...ts food crops from human consumption.
In other words, we're taking the grain that could fight famine in Africa and using it to get back and forth to work instead.
So why are we even still ma...
How to Avoid Giving to Thin Air
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 20, 2007
There are many ways for a charity to mis-use your money, but don't let that deter you from giving. Much like everything else in life, being well-informed is essential to ensuring your next step isn't into a deep, water filled, pot hole.
Of course, you don't have to give just money ei...
A Stable China: For How Long?
in China Venture News, on July 24, 2007
...stable. The Cultural Revolution lasted a decade. Before that, the Great Leap Forward (1957) and the famine of the Sparrow Campaign in 1958 brought minor chaos to China. There was the invasion of Tib...
Obesity and Malnutrition
in Well Woman Blog, on June 10, 2007
..., is pot-bellies, wasted limbs and emaciated bodies - all conditions more usually associated with famine victims in the developing world. ...
The AIDS Pandemic in Africa
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 12, 2007
... Amidst the famine , water shortages, and other huge socio-economical problems in Africa, there is yet another monster rampaging through the continent. Countless thousands have died. Thousands...
No Evidence to Support that Certain Minorities are Prone to Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on April 17, 2007
...n Aborigine or other indigenous groups) are more prone to diabetes due to the cycles of feast and famine in early human history that created a gene to help the body use scarce nutrients - that ...
Notable Increase In Type 2 Diabetes Found In Minority Children
in Daily Diabetic, on December 8, 2006
...s, the type associated with adult obesity. Born genetically programmed to store fat during times of famine, overweight Hispanics, Indians and blacks develop symptoms of diabetes from a regular diet of...
When pure low-cal is not enough
in Are you a beauty?, on December 5, 2006
...m photos on her blog , she is quite petite. Although, there is a chance her body thinks it's famine because of the too low calorie intake, so it has lowered its metabolism. It's essent...
Ayiti: The Cost of Life
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 6, 2006
...or something like that, where you have to help a nation develop, deal with war, natural disaster, famine , poverty, etc., etc. It could be a very interesting and educational game. You could have...
NORTH KOREA INVADES HOLLYWOOD
in The Celebrities Weblog, on August 12, 2006
...ld at it, according to his official press releases.
After all, he engineered the greatest, ongoing famine in the history of mankind, with his farming and ranching rules.
His constituency may be star...
International development news ...
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on April 10, 2006
...l entrpreneurs and sustainable development.
When Bunker Roy came face to face with a devastating famine that killed thousands in the Indian state of Bihar over 30 years ago, his vocation was...
European Vacation: Italy Part Two
in The Outdoor Weblog, on February 28, 2006
...years were also referred to as the Middle Ages. Those years were times of war, disease, poverty and famine. Ruthless, disparate kingdoms waged bloody battle after bloody battle with little or no repre...