Humans‚ aliens & autism Daedalus‚ Summer 2009 by Hacking‚ Ian Contraries illumine what they are not. Aliens‚ typically from outer space‚ are almost by definition not human. Current portrayals of aliens may show more about who we‚ the humans‚ are than they do about our extragalactic contraries. In portrayal by opposites there is often a large dose of fear: for example‚ that we may be all too like the aliens we imagine. That leads to a paradox about autism and aliens. A persistent trope in some
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The impact of globalization on poverty in Bangladesh Working Paper No. 65 S.R. Osmani Policy Integration Department National Policy Group International Labour Office Geneva November 2005 Working papers are preliminary documents circulated to stimulate discussion and obtain comments Copyright © International Labour Organization 2006 Publications of the International Labour Office enjoy copyright under Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. Nevertheless‚ short excerpts
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Annual Report 2011. Key Figures Daimler Group 2011 Amounts in millions of euros Revenue Western Europe thereof Germany NAFTA thereof United States Asia thereof China Other markets Employees (December 31) Investment in property‚ plant and equipment Research and development expenditure thereof capitalized Free cash flow of the industrial business EBIT Value added Net profit/loss Earnings/loss per share (in €) Total dividend Dividend per share (in €) 106‚540 39‚387 19‚753 26‚026 22‚222 22‚643
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2012 The Nobel Prize in Physics Serge Haroche‚ David J. Wineland The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Robert J. Lefkowitz‚ Brian K. Kobilka The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Sir John B. Gurdon‚ Shinya Yamanaka The Nobel Prize in Literature Mo Yan The Nobel Peace Prize European Union (EU) The Prize in Economic Sciences Alvin E. Roth‚ Lloyd S. Shapley 2011 The Nobel Prize in Physics Saul Perlmutter‚ Brian P. Schmidt‚ Adam G. Riess The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Dan Shechtman The Nobel
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Detective A detective is an investigator‚ either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators (P.I.s or "Private I’s"‚ hence the play-on-words‚ "Private Eyes"). Informally‚ and primarily in fiction‚ a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes‚ including historical crimes‚ or looks into records. Overview In some police departments‚ a detective position is appointed‚ rather than a position achieved by passing a written
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and more general ideas which encompass these concepts. Some notable mathematicians include Archimedes of Syracuse‚ Leonhard Paul Euler‚ Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss‚ Johann Bernoulli‚ Jacob Bernoulli‚ Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī‚ Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann‚ Gottfried Leibniz‚ Euclid of Alexandria‚ Jules Henri Poincaré‚ Srinivasa Ramanujan‚ Alexander Grothendieck‚ David Hilbert‚ Joseph-Louis Lagrange‚ Georg Cantor‚ Évariste Galois‚ and Pierre de Fermat. Some scientists who research other
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← III → Strama paper-Traders Hotel Manila → I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With continues growth of the hotel industry in the Philippines‚ there are no doubt at the growing demand of travel and tourism in the country. People awareness has increased due to the campaign being done by the different channels of the industry‚ specifically‚ the department of tourism‚ airlines and hotels. Traders Hotel is located on Roxas Boulevard and overlooking picturesque Manila Bay‚ Traders Hotel is the ideal place
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RETREAD RUBBER - MARKET ANALYSIS Introduction 1. In the manufacture of a new tyre‚ about 75% of the manufacturing cost is incurred in Tyre Casing and remaining 25% in the Tread (The portion of the tyre which meets the road surface).Hence‚ by applying a new Tread over the body of the worn out tyre‚ a fresh lease of life is given to the tyre‚ at a cost which is less than 30% of the price of a new tyre. This process is termed as Tyre retreading and the materials used for process are known as
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Quentin Tarantino and the Director as DJ MICHAEL RENNETT I 1990S‚ TIMOTHY CORRIGAN DEFINED A NEW KIND OF film auteur as “celebrity‚” exemplified by Quentin Tarantino‚ Spike Lee‚ and Oliver Stone. He describes these directors as selfpromotional machines‚ in which “the artistic expression of contemporary directors is fully bound up with the celebrity industry of Hollywood” (38–39). Essentially‚ contemporary directors are marketing themselves as a specific brand‚ and the films created by each auteur
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Adolf Hitler (pronounced [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei‚ abbreviated NSDAP‚ commonly known as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945‚ and head of state (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is most well known for his central leadership role in the rise of fascism in Europe
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