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Topic: Extreme points of the United States


  
  United States
The United States also holds several other territories, districts and possessions, notably the federal district of the District of Columbia, which is the nation's capital, and several overseas insular areas, the most significant of which are Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam and the United States Virgin Islands.
The social structure of the United States is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence on the rest of the nation.
The United States is also a great center of higher education, boasting more than 1,500 universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which may be considered to be among the most prestigious and advanced in the world.
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 U.S._state - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
A state of the United States is any one of the fifty subnational entities referred to as a state (although four officially favor the term commonwealth) which, along with the District of Columbia, under the provisions of the United States Constitution form the United States of America.
The separate state governments and the United States federal government share sovereignty, in that an "American" is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of residence.
In practice, nearly all states admitted to the union after the original thirteen have been formed from U.S. territories (that is, land under the sovereignty of the United States federal government but not part of any state) that were organized (given a measure of self-rule by Congress).
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 Alaska - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area (it is larger in area than all but 18 of the world's nations) at 570,374 square miles (1,477,261 km²), over twice as large as Texas, the next largest state.
Alaska and, especially, the Aleutians are one of the extreme points of the United States.
Owing to the state's low population density, most of the land is located in the Unorganized Borough which, as the name implies, has no intermediate borough government of its own, but is administered directly by the state government.
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 United States - Gurupedia
states were added to the original thirteen as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions.
Under the laws of war, a nation is not an occupying power until the war is declared to be over—thus, the United States is not technically an occupying power in Iraq, although it currently has control over that nation's people, politics and economy.
The social structure of the United States is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence.
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 ipedia.com: United States Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
REDIRECT The United States of America, also referred to as the United States, America ¹, or the States, is a federal republic in central North America and the Pacific Ocean.
The United States of America (U.S.A.), also referred to as the United States (U.S. America¹, or the States, is a federal republic in central North America and the Pacific Ocean (the islands of Hawaii, and the Aleutians).
The economy of the United States is described as "mixed" because, while it is organized primarily on a capitalist model (entrepreneurship is encouraged, and most enterprises are privately owned), it also limits free markets with social welfare programs like Social Security, unemployment benefits, and Medicare, as well as government regulation in virtually every industry.
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 Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: United States
The health center agreed that assisting the state in the implementation of the death penalty was inconsistent with its mission as a hospital.
The United States was virtually alone in imposing sentences of death on those who were children at the time of the crimes for which they were convicted.
The problem was further exacerbated by the failure of federal, state, and local authorities to enact laws expressly protecting students from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender.
www.hrw.org /wr2k2/us.html   (7186 words)

  
 Power and Weakness - Policy Review, No. 113   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The United States is a liberal, progressive society through and through, and to the extent that Americans believe in power, they believe it must be a means of advancing the principles of a liberal civilization and a liberal world order.
The United States in its formative decades lived in a state of substantial insecurity, surrounded by hostile European empires, at constant risk of being torn apart by centrifugal forces that were encouraged by threats from without: National insecurity formed the core of Washington’s Farewell Address.
For it is the United States that has had the difficult task of navigating between these two worlds, trying to abide by, defend, and further the laws of advanced civilized society while simultaneously employing military force against those who refuse to abide by those rules.
www.policyreview.org /JUN02/kagan.html   (10880 words)

  
 Extreme Points of the United States (50 States) — Infoplease.com
Miscellaneous Data for the United States - Miscellaneous Data for the United States Highest point: Mount McKinley, Alaska 20,320 ft. (6,198 m)...
Federalism, positive law, and the emergence of the American administrative state: prohibition in the Taft Court era.
The Extreme Right Utopia in Belgium and France: The Ideology of the Flemish Vlaams Blok and the French Front National.
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 Alaska Guide, Yellow Pages, Weather, Local Search, Shops, Attractions, History, Maps, News - WowCity.US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alaska is (by an extremely wide margin) the largest state by area in the United States.
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area, 570,374 square miles (1,477,261 km²).
According to the October 1998 report of the United States Bureau of Land Management, approximately 65% of Alaska is owned and managed by the U.S. Federal Government as national forests, national parks, and national wildlife refuges.
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 Extreme points of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The geographic center of the 48 contiguous states is located approximately 6 km (4 mi) west of Lebanon, Kansas, at 39°50′N 98°35′W.
Easternmost Point — Wilkes Island, in the Wake Island atoll (166°36'E) Westernmost Point — Peaked Island, offshore from Cape Wrangell, Attu Island, Alaska (172°26'E) edit] Interpretation of "easternmost" and "westernmost"
There are at least three methods for determining the location of the eastern and western extremes of the United States.
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 Barrow, Alaska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Barrow is the northernmost settlement in the United States, and the northernmost town of more than 2,000 residents in the world.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 55.2 km² (21.3 mi²).
The United States Army established a meteorological and magnetic research station at Barrow in 1881, and the Cape Smythe Whaling and Trading Station was established in 1893.
www.creekin.net /c7357-n204-barrow-alaska.html   (674 words)

  
 Extreme info
Extreme Networks named former Sun storage executive Mark Canepa as its new CEO this week, replacing the outgoing Gordon Stitt, who was the company's first chief executive.
Extreme Networks this week is expected to announce network and device management services intended to give customers a clearer picture of what they have in terms of network devices and how well that equipment is performing.
Extreme Networks this week is expected to refresh its wireless LAN product line, introducing appliances and access points that support faster client roaming, QoS and improved management of wireless-LAN security and infrastructure.
www.networkworld.com /news/financial/extreme.html   (1455 words)

  
 Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Chapter 1
The report was prepared against a backdrop of growing awareness in the United States and throughout the world of the immense burden of disability associated with mental illnesses.
In the United States, mental disorders collectively account for more than 15 percent of the overall burden of disease from all causes and slightly more than the burden associated with all forms of cancer (Murray and Lopez, 1996).
A nightmare is a mental state associated with alterations of brain chemistry that, in turn, provoke unmistakable changes elsewhere in the body.
www.surgeongeneral.gov /library/mentalhealth/chapter1/sec1.html   (4246 words)

  
 The New Yorker : critics : atlarge
Because there are so many companies in the United States that step in to make drugs once their patents expire, and because the price competition among those firms is so fierce, generic drugs here are among the cheapest in the world.
Only three of those percentage points were due to price increases, however, which means that inflation was about the same in the drug sector as it was in the over-all economy.
At one point, Abramson discusses a study that he found in a medical journal concluding that the statin Pravachol lowered the risk of stroke in patients with coronary heart disease by nineteen per cent.
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 Extreme Portal @ Terrifik.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Extreme Programming, also known as XP Extreme (marketing), the term as used in advertising and marketing
Extreme Championship Wrestling, the former independent promotion that now operates as a brand for World Wrestling Entertainment.
Extreme Paintbrawl, a budget first person shooter that is considered one of the worst games ever
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 The Left Coaster: King-George-gate: Myths v. Realities
TALKING POINT: The “reasonable suspicion” standard associated with the 2002 amendment that the Bush administration rejected owing to legal and constitutional concerns was lower than the "reasonable basis" standard used in their domestic spying program.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan et al.
Further, as the Washington Post reported: "Several FISA judges said they also remain puzzled by Bush's assertion that the court was not "agile" or "nimble" enough to help catch terrorists...the court's actions in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks suggested that its judges were hardly unsympathetic to the needs of their nation at war...
www.theleftcoaster.com /archives/006455.php   (4790 words)

  
 Maine, Patches, Police at Historical Memorabilia
Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States.
Maine is both the largest and the northernmost state in the New England region, bordered on the west by New Hampshire.
Maine is the most sparsely populated state east of the Mississippi River, owing in part to its huge relative size—its land mass exceeds that of all other New England states combined.
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 The New York Review of Books: The Secret Way to War
It was October 16, 2002, and the United States Congress had just voted to authorize the President to go to war against Iraq.
The key negotiation in view at this point, in other words, was not with Saddam over letting in the United Nations inspectors—both parties hoped he would refuse to admit them, and thus provide the justification for invading.
The key negotiation would be between the Americans, who had shown "resistance" to the idea of involving the United Nations at all, and the British, who were more concerned than their American cousins about having some kind of legal fig leaf for attacking Iraq.
www.nybooks.com /articles/18034   (4087 words)

  
 Extreme Points of the United States (50 States) — FactMonster.com
Extreme Points of the United States (50 States)
Geographic Centers of States - Geographic Centers of States Alabama In Chilton Co., 12 mi.
Alabama: History, Geography, Population, and State Facts - Information on Alabama — economy, government, culture, state map and flag, major cities, points of interest, famous residents, state motto, symbols, nicknames, and other trivia.
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 Extreme Geographical Points of the United States (Reference) - TeacherVision.com
Extreme Geographical Points of the United States (Reference) - TeacherVision.com
Highest, Lowest, and Mean Elevations in the United States, by State
Geographical Highs, Lows, and Boundaries of the U.S. State Abbreviations and Postal Codes
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 U.S. Geography — FactMonster.com
Mountain Peaks in the United States Higher Than 14,000 Feet
Other Notable Highs, Lows and In-Betweens of the U.S. Land and Water Area of States, 2000
Basic U.S. Geography - Basic U.S. Geography Number of states: 50 Territories: 15 Area (2000): total: 3,794,083 sq mi...
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