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	ASTR 341 Americas
		The points of most likely interest are the extreme rising and setting points on the horizon (solstices) and the east-west line (equinoxes).
		Thus their extreme points along the horizon are somewhat more extended than for the Sun.
		The point is that the pyramid gives a heightened horizon and the Sun moves to the south as it rises, so that the Sun is framed despite the apparent misalignment.
	www.astro.virginia.edu /class/fall2002/chevalier/astr341/americas.html (1686 words)

	Book Encyclopedia - Web Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The southernmost point of the world and the southernmost point on land is the geographic South Pole, which is on the continent of Antarctica.
		The point farthest from the Earth's centre is the summit of Chimborazo (due to the Earth not being a perfect sphere), at 6384.4 km (Everest's summit is at 6382.3 km).
		The point closest to the Earth's centre (~6353 km) is probably somewhere at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean (depth ~4 km) near the Geographic North pole (the bottom of the Mariana Trench is 6366.4 km from the centre of the Earth).
	www.bookencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Extreme_points_of_the_world (535 words)

	Extreme points of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of the extreme points of the United States, the points that are farther north, south, east, or west than any other location in the country.
		Including territories and insular areas — Map of the world, with red dots showing the extreme points, green squares showing the points that do not respect the IDL, and yellow line showing where the IDL is.
		Based on the IDL, Wake Island is technically the easternmost point of the United States; however, because the U.S. Virgin Islands are much closer to the U.S. mainland, they are usually considered to be the easternmost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extreme_points_of_the_United_States (458 words)

	United States - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		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 North America and the Pacific Ocean (the islands of Hawaii, and the Aleutians).
		It extends from the Atlantic coast in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west.
		Following the European colonization of the Americas, the United States became one of the world's first modern representative democracies after its break with Great Britain, with a Declaration of Independence in 1776.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /u/un/united_states.html (2532 words)

	Extreme points of the Americas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of the extreme points of The Americas, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent.
		The continent's southernmost point is often said to be Cape Horn, which is the southernmost point of the Chilean islands.
		Northernmost Point — Murchison Promontory on Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada (71°58'N) Southernmost Point — Cape Froward, Chile (53°56'S) Westernmost Point — Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, United States (168°05'W) Easternmost Point — Ponta do Seixas, Brazil (34°48'W) ¹ According to the International Date Line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extreme_points_of_the_Americas (189 words)

	Summary.html
		The document addresses the major topics on the official agenda of the FTAA negotiators (investment, finance, intellectual property rights, agriculture, market access and dispute resolution), as well as topics that are of extreme social importance but which governments have ignored (human rights, environment, labour, immigration, the role of the state, and energy).
		The first draft of this paper was prepared for the Summit of the Peoples of the Americas, held in April 1998 in Santiago, Chile, in the days preceding the Summit for heads of state (see preface for more details).
		It was decided, however, to continue to build on the draft by incorporating points raised during this and other fora of the Peoples' Summit, as well as incorporating new suggestions and contributions.
	www.globalexchange.org /campaigns/alternatives/americas/Summary.html (1278 words)

	Andrew Olmsted dot com: Two Americas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		I’ve never understood the people who attack America as the source of the world’s ills or as a bigger problem than the kleptocracies and venal states that populate most of the rest of the planet.
		I had forgotten that America is as much an ideal as a place, and for many people, America doesn’t live up to the ideals they want her to stand for.
		If one state wanted to have extremely generous welfare rules, while another chose to be far more parsimonious, it would be easier for people to vote with their feet.
	andrewolmsted.com /MT/archives/000814.html (7021 words)

	TAPPED: February 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		EPA has said the largest U.S. sources of mercury contamination are coal-fired power plants, whose annual atmospheric emissions contain 48 tons of mercury.
		But the point of supporting the amendment was never really to pass it, rather the GOP was hoping to spark a long and divisive debate that would play to their political advantage.
		The point is simply that the neocons seem to have a special affinity for Israel that influences their political thinking and consequently American foreign policy in the Middle East.
	www.prospect.org /weblog/archives/2004/02 (17356 words)

	Clovis People
		Clovis points range in length from 1 1/2 to 5 inches (4 to 13 centimetres) and are heavy and fluted, though the fluting rarely exceeds half the length.
		Exactly how these points were hafted is unknown, but the men probably carried a series of them mounted in wooden or bone foreshafts that worked loose from the spear shaft once the head was buried in its quarry.
		Besides projectile points, the Clovis people used bifacially trimmed points and other woodworking and butchering artifacts, as well as flakes used simply as sharp-edged, convenient tools in their struck-off form.
	www.crystalinks.com /clovis.html (877 words)

	AMERICAS SURVIVAL
		Since they are concerned in the extreme, I can only presume that deployment of such a system in the latter half of this decade directly impinges upon their time of attack.
		The horn of southern Africa is one of the world’s strategic choke points.
		Thus, it is the destruction of America’s military, forcing the world to join and support a global military that provides the prime motivation of US global leaders to induce the Russians to strike their own nation.
	groups.msn.com /AMERICASSURVIVAL/newspost.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=8355&all_topics=0 (10992 words)

	Report on the situation of human rights defenders in the Americas
		Curtailing free speech by imprisoning those who make use of this means of expression would have a dissuading effect on those sectors of society that express their points of view or criticism of the authorities as a way of influencing the processes whereby state decisions and policies that directly affect them are made.
		According to the international standards that have been developed concerning the use of force by law enforcement officials in the discharge of their duties, such action must be necessary and proportional to the needs of the situation and to the objective sought.
		The Committee has considered that the guarantee of such protection in the case of trade union officials is also necessary in order to ensure that effect is given to the fundamental principle that workers’ organizations shall have the right to elect their representatives in full freedom.
	www.cidh.oas.org /countryrep/Defenders/defenderschap1-4.htm (7595 words)

	EXTREME NETWORKS INC - EXTR Unscheduled Material Events (8-K) EXHIBIT 99.2
		And finally, the Rochester School District at Michigan is also deploying Extreme's Unified Access architecture switches and hundreds of access points for their students and faculty throughout its more than 20 schools in the district.
		Now, a number of enterprise customers are determining that Extreme Networks and our global partner Avaya offere superior technology integration and value for their converged voice and data communication solutions.
		As for opportunities specific to Extreme, we think that a continued focus on new products, what appears to be an improving environment in the U.S., and a modest contribution from our Avaya relationship and collectively provide the basis for revenue growth from the June quarter to the September quarter.
	sec.edgar-online.com /2004/07/28/0001193125-04-126135/section7.asp (8486 words)

	AMERICA'S ACUPUNCTURE POINTS
		If America ever goes to war with China, Chinese military doctrine suggests the US should expect attacks on a number of key points where it is particularly vulnerable - where a single jab would paralyze the entire nation.
		Another "acupuncture point" in America’s anatomy in the event of a major conflict with China (and Russia) is its inherent disadvantage dictated by geography.
		America is in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter of the "great game", and it is behind in points.
	uyghuramerican.org /articles/616/1/-AMERICAS-ACUPUNCTURE-POINTS/-AMERICAS-ACUPUNCTURE-POINTS.html (6350 words)

	Gurdjieff and His School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The point is that this special “atmosphere” represents and manifests being and calls to that in a person which yearns for “something” that does not seem possible for one to find under most “known” forms of religion, science, psychology, and occultism.
		From this point of view our psychic life, both as regards our world perception and our expression of it, fail to present a unique and indivisible whole, that is to say a whole acting both as common repository of all our perceptions and as the source of all our expressions.
		In the modern era this has gone to an extreme point and most of the technical and material progress of our culture serves to push the individual further into only one of the centers—one third, as it were, of one’s real self-nature.
	www.bmrc.berkeley.edu /people/misc/School.html (7549 words)

	americas.org - The Revolution: Present and Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		During the period of Cuba’s alliance with the U.S.S.R., the U.S. claimed that hostility towards Cuba was because Cuba was an extension of the U.S.S.R in the Americas.
		Infant mortality, life expectancy and the health of the population is the best in Latin America and is close to that of the United States.
		Cuba, while far more equal than the rest of the Americas including the United States is much less equal than it was 20 years ago and this is a source of discontent.
	www.americas.org /item_16311 (4042 words)

	NewsWatch: Americas: Americans warned against traveling to Oaxaca
		Blogging the Border, Mexico and points south with the Chronicle staff
		U.S. ambassador Tony Garza is urging Americans to exercise extreme caution if traveling to the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
		Garza released a statement last night following the shooting death of an American journalist in Oaxaca.
	blogs.chron.com /americas/archives/2006/10/americans_warne_1.html (424 words)

	WWW.OPPRESSION.ORG / AMERICAS / Black Americans
		Such exploitation in Europe was contemporary with the enslavement of Africans in America; the enslavement of Africans was not, therefore, an isolated event existing in uacuo, but rather was an event interwined with the major historical developments of the time.
		Racial amalgamation can never come in America." After warning the African people that social equality was a dream that could not be realized, President Harding went on to say: "It is probable that as a nation we have come to the end of the period of very rapid increase in population.
		The mass migration of Africans into the large urban centers of America during this century may be the last stage in the extirpation of the African man in America.
	www.oppression.org /americas/black_americans.html (2432 words)

	CNN.com - Americas summit 'under control' despite protests - April 21, 2001
		Chretien said the 34 leaders attending the Summit of the Americas had agreed to a fundamental accord requiring countries to abide by certain democratic principles to participate in the group.
		While hailing the expansion of democracy in the region and the economic possibilities of free trade, Mexican President Vicente Fox said poverty and inequality in the region must also be addressed.
		"We know that poverty, especially extreme poverty, is an implacable, unforgiving, exclusionary mechanism in democracy because it separates people physically, psychologically and culturally from the rest of society," he said.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/americas/04/21/summit.americas.04 (1219 words)

	Rural poverty in the Americas
		Mexico lies between two very different parts of the Americas: a richer area comprising Canada and the United States of America to the north, and a poorer area to the south and east, comprising parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean.
		Poverty in the South America region is often perceived as an urban phenomenon, since 70 per cent of the population is urban, and extensive urban slums are highly visible.
		Rural poverty in the South Cone, or southern part of South America, is deepest among indigenous peoples such as the Mapuches in southern Chile and some 15 ethnic groups in Argentina, where the recent economic crisis has led to an increase in poverty in many urban and rural areas.
	www.ruralpovertyportal.org /english/regions/americas (1098 words)

	GameSpy: America's Army: Rise of a Soldier Preview
		As executive producer Tony Van says, "America's Army is really about being a soldier -- moving from recruit to the Special Forces." You actually start in boot camp, becoming a stain on the drill instructor's boot.
		Nobody said realism was always fun, but this is just one extreme; most of the game is more conducive to gamers' needs.
		Points awarded can be spent to jack up your skills in such areas as leadership, observation, stealth, marksmanship, and conditioning.
	xbox.gamespy.com /xbox/americas-army/647682p1.html (599 words)

	36 oas / oas / conventions / americas / regional pages / home - Transparency International
		A priority for Transparency International’s network of chapters in the Americas is to participate in the hemispheric dialogue as a means for helping countries in the region implement specific measures to promote transparency in the fight against corruption.
		One of the forums TI recently participated in was the Round Table with Civil Society, which was organised by the OAS at the beginning of May in Washington with the aim to exchange points of view regarding implementation and follow-up efforts for the declarations and plans of action originating at previous sessions and summits.
		Draft Social Charter of the Americas: Renewal of the hemisphere’s commitment to the fight against extreme poverty in the region.
	www.transparency.org /regional_pages/americas/conventions/oas/36_oas (1675 words)

	Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: January 18, 2004 - January 24, 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		When I came in, a Fox News reporter, Major Garrett was doing a live shot, telling his viewers that the Dean spin points to the fact that polls show that they have the highest number of supporters who say they’re sure they’re going to vote for their candidate.
		But the relevant point for the moment is that what the GOP operatives are trying to point to as a flip-flop here is really a matter of comparing apples and oranges.
		And the reason I bring up the point about this coming election is that the argument I think that people like yourself have made --- and probably people like myself --- is that the consequences of what we are doing now probably won't be clear in their totality in the next year.
	www.talkingpointsmemo.com /archives/week_2004_01_18.php (16180 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		From the point of view of democratic theory, American political history is just a random walk through a series of electoral options.
		But, as Larry Bartels, the co-author of the paper on Gore and the weather, has pointed out, pocketbook voting would be rational only if it could be shown that replacing the incumbent did lead, on average, to better economic times.
		But Fiorina points out that the ideological position of a candidate is not identical to the position of the people who vote for him or her.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/atlarge?040830crat_atlarge (3465 words)

	HumanRights.html
		In some extreme cases, they have pushed for collective, social and labour rights to be excluded from constitutional protection.
		The countries of the Americas should build a common human rights agenda to be included in every economic, financial, and trade agreement within the hemisphere, along with mechanisms and institutions to ensure full implementation and enforcement.
		Ensure the promotion, enforcement and enforceability of human rights, defined broadly and inseparably (the right to gender equity, civil and political, economic, social, cultural, environmental rights and those relating to peoples and communities) within national borders and in the international sphere, as part of integration and globalization processes.
	www.globalexchange.org /campaigns/alternatives/americas/HumanRights.html (1375 words)

	TAPPED: September 2003 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The latest casualty: Clark's non-profit, educational group, Leadership for America, which was dedicated to fostering debate on America's future.
		His main point is to establish that, as his headline says, "The Laffer Curve Works." We don't disagree with Laffer's general observation that there must be some levels of taxation such that a reduction in tax rates will lead to an increase in revenue (the obvious example would be the case of 100 percent taxation).
		No doubt, as Talking Points Memo notes, there are those Hillary advisors who labor under the delusion that she can one day become president.
	www.prospect.org /weblog/archives/2003/09 (15797 words)

	The Summit of the Americas Informs
		With this reality, the Summits of the Americas become a stage which reunites the Heads of State and Government of the Western Hemisphere, elected democratically, to discuss common concerns, search for solutions, and develop a shared vision for the future of the region in economic, social and political issues.
		The purpose of this dialogue is to exchange experiences and generate recommendations for the consideration of the Heads of the Delegations and the General Secretariat during their discussions at the XXXV General Assembly.
		At the Third Summit of the Americas held in Quebec, Canada in 2001, the Heads of State and Government of the Americas agreed to continue working on issues related to globalization which affects employment and labor, with the goal of creating better employment opportunities and improving worker’s qualifications and labor conditions throughout the Hemisphere.
	www.summit-americas.org /Newsletter/Newsletter_Feb05_ENG.htm (2473 words)

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