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	List of British people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This page was last modified 15:27, 21 March 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Britons (45 words)

	Major Religions Ranked by Size
		People who specify atheism as their religious preference actually make up less than one-half of one percent of the population in many countries where much large numbers claim no religious preference, such as the United States (13.2% nonreligious according to ARIS study of 2001) and Australia (15% nonreligious).
		Finally, a larger number of people answer "none" or "non-religious" when asked asked an open-ended queston about what their religious preference is. Although figures vary for each country, average numbers indicate that roughly half of the people who self-identify as "nonreligious" also answer "yes" when asked if they believe in God or a Higher Power.
		Certainly most Japanese people participate in holidays which have Shinto roots, but in this list we are trying to track self-identification, not general vestigial influence.
	www.adherents.com /Religions_By_Adherents.html (11821 words)

	Simon World
		People pay tens of thousands of dollars to go to business schools when all they needed to do was take a Shanghai taxi.
		So it's important to write what's worthy rather than what people want to read, but it's also important to put form over substance.
		The figures for purchases a) only reflect the residence of who's buying (and a British bank can buy for the Chinese government as easily as a Chinese one) and b) don't reflect the secondary market, which is the most important part of the treasuries trading market.
	simonworld.mu.nu (4066 words)

	Amazon.com: Profile For Newt Gingrich: Reviews
		Wattenberg reports conclusively that the world will have far fewer people than was expected even a decade ago, that in numbers and age and gender patterns this smaller population will be distributed in ways that will be significant, and that the implications for the environment, the economy and national security will be quite profound.
		The criminal activities of the People's Liberation Army, including their willingness to use violence and intimidation to create rigged enrichment for a small handful of Generals, are described in accurate details.
		He makes clear that the Founding Fathers felt that it was the people who would decide the interpretation of the Constitution through their elected officials, not appointed lawyers through their decisions.
	www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A27WFYW9ZJ5DN1 (3301 words)

	BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Asian disaster: How to help
		Handicap International - www.handicap-international.org.uk- is focusing its efforts on helping displaced people, disabled people and vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, elderly people and children.
		More than 220,000 people are confirmed killed by the waves and millions more are homeless.
		It has had to set up a new site - www.ifrc.org - because of the unprecedented demand from people wanting to make donations.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4131881.stm (1038 words)

	ASIAN POP: Blogging Asia
		Brown are institutionalizing Asian forms of English in the blogosphere, expatriate bloggers are introducing their readers to the names of local Asian dishes and cultural trends.
		Cheng, whose blog won this year's Best Asian Weblog award, says she gets 3,000 visitors per day, but her daily traffic spiked to 8,300 after she was mentioned on Blogger Buzz.
		Simon Masnick, an Aussie based in Hong Kong, has taken up the gauntlet of the omnipresent one-upmanship between two key Southeast Asian metropolises: "Singapore and Hong Kong are well-known rivals.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/05/05/asianblogs.DTL (1239 words)

	AskMen.com - Cities to live in
		Oh, and for the record, the list examined the city's nightlife, standard of living, job sector, arts and culture, weather, state of affairs, and all of the other things that encompass daily life.
		So what if the crime gets you [shot] down at times, and the telecommunication companies have yet to provide phones for everyone -- that is why you have mobiles, no? You can bet your last Brazilian Real that with the best beaches in the world, you will not be looking for your phone anyway.
		The place is always alive, even after the British handed the island back to the Chinese.
	www.askmen.com /toys/top_10/10_top_10_list.html (624 words)

	The British, Invaded
		If part of what this Asian underground sought was a new identity, then the airplane’s restless movement between London and Calcutta seems the perfect way to understand an identity constantly under construction, devised and revised on the fly.
		Begun in 1997 at the height of the “Asian underground” movement, Bald’s labor of love is a rich, engaging work, equal parts social history and cheerleader.
		Mutiny is a film about people doing all the “wrong” things and finding useful bits of sonic resistance in their larger cultural alienation.
	www.arc.org /C_Lines/CLArchive/story6_4_03.html (1684 words)

	J-List side blog
		Because Japanese young people usually live with their parents into their 20s (or indefinitely, if they're the oldest son or daughter), it can be difficult for couples to find free time alone to, well, you know.
		Asian students of English as a Second Language get a lot of flack for answering "yes" to questions even though they didn't understand what had just been said to them, but I can totally understand where they're coming from.
		Rather than embarrass myself in front of so many people by asking the MC to repeat herself, I gave her a very generic answer: So desu ne, which literally means "yes, that's so" but in practice, doesn't really mean anything at all (so it fit the bill perfectly).
	www.peterpayne.net (6082 words)

	The Scales of Good and Evil
		Most of the people you named did not accomplish these deeds alone, their ability to lead, and feed of off general trends and hysteria of the masses, is what made all of these atrocities/good deeds happen.
		The "disappeared" (people kidnapped and murdered by the army; "disappeared" is how the government classified them, though they often gave the orders to kill) were in the thousands, repression of opposition was violent to an extreme (think of the Mexican or Columbian governments' treatment of opponents; the Argeninian government was twice as bad).
		Although religious people may debate whether a fertilized egg (zygote) should be accorded the same rights as a child (and therefore the pill is evil), no one debates that the pill has decreased the suffering of fully formed, multicellular humans.
	sprott.physics.wisc.edu /pickover/good.html (21142 words)

	Decorating and Home Decor Gifts from Antiki - Free Shipping!
		At Antiki, we seek to connect the world's gifted artisans with people that appreciate and value the beauty of their work.
		We also provide our customers with unique insight about each product - the people who made them, their traditions, and their beliefs.
		Malaysia was formed in 1963 through a federation of the former British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, including the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern coast of Borneo.
	www.antiki.com (142 words)

	Statistical NLP / corpus-based computational linguistics resources
		Open source package for unsupervised discovery of word senses by clustering together instances of a word (or words) that are used in similar contexts in raw text, supporting a wide range of clustering techniques based on both context vectors and similarity matrices, and including links to SVDPACKC and CLUTO.
		Has a comprehensive selection of resources for WSD, including a good list of WSD data resources, but not yet the new SEMCOR.
		Includes the British part of ICE, the International Corpus of English project.
	www-nlp.stanford.edu /links/statnlp.html#NER (3219 words)

	Britannia Panorama: British Government
		The House also provides a place in Parliament for people who offer useful advice, but do not wish to be involved in party politics.
		Parliament, Britain's legislature, is made up of the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the Queen in her constitutional role.
		They are usually granted in recognition of service in politics or other walks of life or because one of the political parties wishes to have the recipient in the House of Lords.
	www.britannia.com /gov/gov10.html (1819 words)

	Whiskey Bar: Donald Rumsfeld's Battle With The Truth
		The Americans and British are saying that they are 'insurgents' and people who are a part of Al-Sadir's militia, but people from Najaf are claiming that innocent civilians are being killed on a daily basis.
		People are seething with anger- the pictures of Abu Ghraib and the Brits in Basrah are everywhere.
		Each and every one of those people was wondering what their loved ones had suffered inside the walls of the hell that makes Guantanamo look like a health spa.
	billmon.org /archives/001465.html (16861 words)

	Fat's In The Fire For This Burger King
		People close to the matter confirm that Bonderman had discussed the top job with Brenneman.
		From 2000 to 2002, when Burger King was still owned by the British liquor maker Diageo PLC (DEO), the chain's profits dropped 21%, to $288 million.
		Named CEO in July, the former consultant had built a reputation as a turnaround wizard at Bain & Co. and then at his own firm, TurnWorks Inc. After helping TPG-backed Continental Airlines (CAL) return to profitability in the 1990s, he engineered the 2002 sale of PricewaterhouseCoopers to IBM (IBM) for $3.5 billion.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/04_45/b3907095.htm (1309 words)

	BBC NEWS UK At-a-glance: UK aid drive
		With tens of thousands killed in the Asian tsunami, major efforts by British charities to help the victims are under way.
		The government has pledged £15 million to help survivors of the tsunamis which Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn has said is the "the first phase" of the UK's commitment to helping the afflicted countries.
		On Thursday, a British Red Cross plane will carry logistical equipment to join its team already in Sri Lanka, where the International Committee for the Red Cross has been delivering supplies and helping with evacuations.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4129217.stm (542 words)

	Hugh Nicoll’s Weblog
		And beyond or with the work who can ever forget his social presence - a magnetism that brought people up to their best, everyone, in my experience, immedate and alert to each word in the air.
		Reading that I was wishing I had a copy of The Chambers Brothers “The Time Has Come” handy with “People Get Ready” to sing along to as well as the title cut “Time Has Come Today.”
		It takes one episode in the life of a teacher trainer, and seeks within the whole of that experience, including the train journey from Sydney to an outlying Asian majority suburb, as its primary subject.
	www.hughnicoll.org /blog (3188 words)

	The Hmong Tragedy: The Hmongs in the United States, their Origins in Laos, and the Future
		Asian students have a statewide graduation rate of 95%, and those who continue on to post-secondary education in the University of Wisconsin system have a higher retention rate than other groups.
		The Hmong People in the U.S. by Jeff Lindsay, Appleton, Wisconsin
		We have people of other races and ethnic backgrounds (mainly white) who came on the radio and publicly say that the Hmong are savages who would hunt, kill, and eat anything that moves - even dogs and cats.
	www.jefflindsay.com /Hmong_tragedy.html (12561 words)

	About
		William Holland, the University of British Columbia's Asian Studies Department is the flagship Asian Studies department in Canada, and is widely acknowledged as one of the very finest in North America.
		The Department also has great strengths in all areas of South Asian culture; Chinese literature of all periods; Korean language, literature and culture, in which it is one of the three strongest in North America; traditional civilization with a focus on the construction of identity; and literary translation.
		The Department is a world leader in East Asian thought, philosophy and religion; and the world leader in the study of medieval Japanese literature, culture and society.
	www.asia.ubc.ca (818 words)

	LoveHKFilm.com - People Archive
		The biographies on some of the People Pages were researched and written by a variety of people.
		Many of the People Pages contain links to a corresponding page on the M-Dream Website, which in turn house many links to fansites, picture archives and discussion forums for many of Hong Kong's popular celebrities.
		The pictures on the People Pages were taken from a variety of sources.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /people_archive.htm (666 words)

	Graduate Programs in Asian Philosophy and Religion
		Acceptance to the field of Asian Religions is contingent upon the agreement of a faculty member to serve as the student's committee chair and principal advisor for the duration of his or her graduate studies.
		In the Asian area the distinctive and perhaps unique character of Temple's program has been and continues to be its focus on Asian philosophy and religious thought, comparative and constructive, as living traditions in the context of contemporary Asian-Asian and Asian-Western encounters.
		The field of Asian Religions is designed to attract a diverse body of students with multiple interests and talents and to prepare them for careers in teaching and research.
	www.h-net.org /~buddhism/GradStudies.htm (8307 words)

	Our Team Independent World Television
		She is a board member of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development and the National Immigration Forum.
		He is the Founder- Chairman of Media Development Foundation, a not for profit Trust dedicated to media education, research and monitoring, which runs the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai (www.asianmedia.org).
		Formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine, he was named “one of the 100 most influential P.R. people of the 20th Century” by PR Week.
	www.iwtnews.com /people (5331 words)

	Judaism and Jewish Resources - Andrew Tannenbaum
		Asian Kashrus Services provides kashrus supervision for manufacturing facilities throughout Asia.
		Eric Simon keeps a list of Torah study opportunities on the net, with many pointers to Yeshivot and other organizations who provide Divrei Torah, including web sites and mailings lists.
		Jewishnet has a comprehensive list of Jewish and Israeli Mailing Lists from around the net.
	www.shamash.org /trb/judaism.html (7783 words)

	Linux ISP DSL, 56k, ISDN, Web Hosting, Shells
		You must provide the URL of the page containing the link and evidence of membership in the Linux User Group in question.
		To qualify for this discount your user group must have a link on their website to our home page and must list Eskimo North as a "Linux Friendly ISP".
		Linux User Group members can get a 10% discount on Eskimo North's retail services.
	www.eskimo.com (208 words)

	Asian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		People have different conceptions of who an Asian is and thus the term is not a very precise or accurate one, except in the case of "South Asian" where the partition of British India made "Indian" a politically incorrect reference to Pakistani and Bangladeshi people.
		Although the main use of the term Asian in everyday English is to describe people, in one way or another, when describing objects or concepts from Asia, the term Asian is usually understood to be more loosely defined, albeit perhaps still not fully synchronous with its geographic definition.
		Because single categorization of "Asians" somewhat implies a form of homogeneity which does not exist, the term is rarely used to denote people from Asia in general (such as Israelis) and is more often used to refer to people from a specific region, namely South Asia and/or East Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asian (1144 words)

	Asian.htm
		Depending on context, Russian people may be considered European, Asian, or mixed according to their individual ethnic nationality, ancestry, or appearance; or may be considered European or Asian based on their current or recent place of residence; or may be considered European or Asian just as citizens of a state extending into Europe or Asia.
		In the United Kingdom and Anglophone Africa, the term "Asian", though it can be used to refer to the continent of Asia as a whole, is more usually associated specifically with people and cultures whose origin lies in South Asia: that is, modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
		To avoid the confusion that sometimes occurs, the term "East Asian" is used to distinguish people from Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Korea and "South Asian" for those from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Asian.htm (942 words)

	Deconstructing 'Asian fetish' - the appeal of physical appearance and/or cultural traits - ColorQ Articles Etc
		Some say Asian fetish' is just a harmless preference for specific physical characteristics, such as narrow eyes and flatter noses, as harmless as some people's preference for dating, say, fatter partners.
		On the other hand, many people in the group which claims 'Asian fetish' is harmless are disgusted by white/black guys who date Asian women because of alleged cultural characteristics like submissiveness and a willingness to do all the housework without asking men to share the load.
		Is this true, or is it just the PC thing to say to avoid being lumped together with those people who really do have Asian fetish, i.e.
	www.colorq.org /Articles/article.aspx?d=2005&x=deconstruct (3461 words)

	Asian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United Kingdom and Anglophone Africa, the term "Asian", though it can be used to refer to the continent of Asia as a whole, is more usually associated specifically with people and cultures whose origin lies in South Asia: that is, modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (see British Asian).
		Despite the fact that these people are technically 'Asians' by geographical location on the map, they have generally have not been labelled as such in Western society.
		Although some ethnic Russians hail from Asia (descendants of people shipped off to Siberia centuries ago, among other settlers), these people are not racially classified as "Asian" in most countries (including the United States) because their ancestors were Caucasian, rather than Mongoloid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asian (929 words)

	Asian Tsunami 2004
		Many are missing and homeless following the Asian Tsunami that has killed more than 120,000 people across Asia.
		Thailand and other Asian countries affected by the Dec 26 tsunami must set aside their image-building and concentrate on the lessons learned from that catastrophe to boost cooperation and be better prepared for future disasters.
		As an average of 50 no. of our volunteers were working in the Tsunami affected areas with the Government Machinery like Police people, Fire service people by way of transporting the affected people to safer places, transporting the injured persons in the nearby Hospitals, Providing their immediate needs of Rice, Cloths etc..
	www.asian-tsunami2004.info (929 words)

	Asia Tsunami - World - smh.com.au
		Tsunami experts could not understand why a forceful earthquake off Indonesia overnight failed to produce massive waves similar to those generated by the December 26 quake that killed at least 174,000 people in the same region.
		The number of people believed to have been killed in December's tsunami disaster rose to 287,534 yesterday, more than six weeks after the catastrophe, as Indonesia increased its toll by nearly 600.
		The number of people believed killed in December's tsunami disaster rose to 285,993 yesterday, more than six weeks after the catastrophe, as Indonesia increased its toll by nearly 800.
	www.smh.com.au /specials/tsunami (929 words)

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