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  Germany article - Germany German world's leading industrialized European Union North Denmark - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His policy of annexing neighbouring territories was one of several reasons that led to the outbreak of World War II in Europe on September 1, 1939.
Germany possesses the world's third most technologically powerful economy after the US and Japan and is part of the world's largest economy, the European Union.
Germany's contributions to the world's cultural heritage are numerous, and the country is often known as das Land der Dichter und Denker (The Land of Poets and Thinkers).
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Germany   (3340 words)

  
 Disarmament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The total military bill in the developing world would therefore have to include the direct destruction of war, the diversion of resources from investment in people, the undermining of democracy, the growth of internal oppression, and the squandering of much of the support for development among the public of the industrialized world.
In the industrialized nations, whose annual military expenditures are approximately equal to the combined incomes of the poorest half of mankind, arms spending has fallen by approximately 3% a year for the last four years.
Three quarters of all the industrialized world's military expenditures of approximately $800 billion a year are currently devoted to the defense of Europe where the military landscape has been transformed.
learning.turner.com /efts/un/disarmt.htm   (949 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Tobacco deaths a developing problem
Tobacco's killing grounds are shifting to the developing world, as new research from the Harvard School of Public Health shows the number of tobacco-related deaths in developing nations in 2000 roughly equaled those in the industrialized world.
Though deaths due to tobacco are roughly equal in the industrialized and developing worlds, most of the world's smokers - 930 million out of 1.1 billion - live in developing countries and middle-income nations, including Eastern European nations in the former Soviet bloc.
Industrialized nations, Ezzati said, had the fortune to be able to deal with many infectious diseases before the arrival of the current era of lifestyle-related illnesses.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/daily/0309/12-tobacco.html   (910 words)

  
 Press 235
World oil prices rose by almost $10 per barrel over the course of 2002 and remained high throughout 2003.  Oil prices are expected to fall after 2004 to $25 per barrel in 2002 dollars and then rise slowly to 2025, reaching $27 per barrel in 2002 dollars (in nominal dollars $51 per barrel).
World oil use increases from 77 million barrels per day in 2001 to 121 million barrels per day in 2025 in the IEO2004 reference case.  Much of the increase in oil demand is expected to occur in the United States and in developing Asia (Figure 2).
Strong growth in electricity use, averaging 3.5 percent per year, is projected for the developing world, where robust economic expansion drives demand for electricity to run newly purchased home appliances for cooking, air conditioning, space and water heating and refrigeration.
www.eia.doe.gov /neic/press/press235.html   (707 words)

  
 Poverty Around The World - Global Issues
As the world tried to break free from their imperial rulers (i.e as seen by the wealthy nations fighting over themselves in World War I and II and the subsequent fights for freedom in the colonial nations), the United States emerged as the intact wealthy nation to continue the same process.
Virtually the entire colonial world was breaking free, its resources would be turned to the care of its own people, and those resources could no longer be siphoned to the old imperial-centers-of-capital for a fraction of their value.
If India and the rest of the world’s former colonies continued to take the rhetoric of democracy seriously and form the nonaligned bloc as they were planning, over 80 percent of the world’s population would be independent or on the other side of the ideological battle.
www.globalissues.org /TradeRelated/PovertyAroundTheWorld.asp   (8816 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Economy - overview
Industry is concentrated mainly in the populous Flemish area in the north.
The government is struggling to upgrade education and technical training, to privatize commercial and industrial enterprises, to improve health services, to diversify exports, to promote tourism, and to reduce the high population growth rate.
Industry, the most important sector of the economy, is heavily dependent on imported raw materials and fuels.
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2116.html   (16452 words)

  
 WORLD RESOURCES
In the industrialized countries, the proportions of people in each age range are rough ly equal, with a slight bulge among the postwar baby-boom generation, which is now 30-45 years old.
Three fourths of all deaths in the industrial world were caused by diseases of the circulatory system (54 percent) and cancer (21 percent) (11) (12).
The world summit epitomized the growing global consensus that a commitment to children is important both in itself and as an investment in the sustainability of the planet.
www.ciesin.org /docs/001-233/001-233all.html   (11787 words)

  
 Energy R&D Retrenchment and Refocusing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The top 9 nations account for 95% of the industrialized world’s publicly supported energy R&D. The US and Japan, which have the largest public energy programs, fund energy R&D at approximately the same level (slightly more than $2 billion each in 1996).
Industrial energy efficiency programs appear to be receiving preference for R&D funds over buildings or transportation related energy efficiency programs.
In the absence of major shifts in the world energy outlook, government energy R&D investments appear unlikely to be restructured and expanded in a way that is optimal for developing the technologies needed in the middle to long term to avoid global climate change.
energytrends.pnl.gov /summary/summary.htm   (925 words)

  
 Male Fertility Rates Collapse In Industrialized World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sperm counts are falling dramatically across Britain and the rest of industrialised world, and scientists are increasingly convinced that pollution is to blame.
Studies around the world have shown that average sperm counts in men have dropped by more than half over the past 50 years - from about 160 million per millilitre of semen to 66 million.
The Medical Research Council reports that the fertility of Scottish men born since 1970 was 25 per cent less than those born in the 1950s, with sperm counts continuing to drop by two per cent a year.
www.rense.com /general21/malefertility.htm   (442 words)

  
 Asia Times - Asia's most knowledgable news source
Until two or three years ago we were still hearing conventional "wisdom", loudly and widely proclaimed, that confidently asserted that the industrialized world in general and the United States in particular were nowhere near as dependent upon crude oil as in the past.
It is the opening phase of the transition from the unipolar world order of the last superpower to the multipolar world order, in which other centers of power gain strength at the expense of US power and dominance.
Thus, the economies of the industrialized world are completely beholden to fl gold and to those who export it.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Global_Economy/FD29Dj01.html   (2756 words)

  
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For a brief moment, industrialized country policymakers appeared to consider trade as an option to stimulate growth in the developing world, and in turn, reduce support for and interest in terrorism.
Many people in the industrialized world also recognize that developing country producers must export to be able to purchase goods from the industrialized world.
The WTO will not work well for citizens in the industrialized world if the majority of its member nations believe it is not acting in their interest.
yaleglobal.yale.edu /article.print?id=5761   (1466 words)

  
 Special Publications no.12: The Changing Nature of Third World Exploitation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Third world countries have every right to expect the over-industrialized nations to repay their Carbon debts because if they don't then quite simply the over-industrialized world, and humans in general, are doomed.
A third of the world's fish catch and more than a third of the world's total grain output is fed to livestock."61 Huge numbers of third world peoples are starving because the crops grown in their country are exported to fatten Animals in the over-industrialized nations, "More people are hungry now than ever before.
For most of the period after the second world war there was a tripartite division of the world into the first world (the over industrialized nations); the second world (soviet bloc countries); and the third world (the rest of the world).
www.geocities.com /carbonomics/MCsppub/11sp12/11sp12b.html   (8298 words)

  
 Cause of Death
The pie graphs show the different causes of death between regions of the world defined by the WHO as high and low mortality regions.
While HIV/AIDS is an issue in the industrialized world, the number of deaths is significantly less.
Diarrhoeal diseases caused 1.8 mn deaths, and nearly all were in the non-industrialized world.
ucatlas.ucsc.edu /cause.php   (634 words)

  
 International Wildlife: On a slow trip back from hell: the infamous Black Triangle had the worst pollution ever ...
Most is in the southern part of a grimy, lopsided wedge of industrial land--known ingloriously as the "Black Triangle"--that crosses borders into Poland and the former East Germany.
Though mining in the foothills of the Ore Mountains began around 1400, it turned into a full-blown industry during the second half of the nineteenth century when the region became one of the premier centers for fossil-fuel extraction in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
By the 1960s, two million people, one of the densest concentrations in the country, were squeezed into this grimy industrial belt, beginning from the city of Chomutov in the southwest to Usti nad Labem and Liberac in the northeast.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1170/is_n1_v28/ai_20235941   (1562 words)

  
 The State of the World's Children 2000
Although poverty is measured on a different scale in the industrialized world, more than 1 in every 10 children in some of the richest nations are raised in families living below the established poverty line.
Rich world, poor world: Poverty is measured differently in developing and industrialized nations.
In developing countries, the international poverty line is less than $1 a day and the lack of access to basic social services is assumed.
www.unicef.org /sowc00/map5.htm   (329 words)

  
 CLINTON RUSHING UNITED STATES INTO A U.N. CLIMATE CONTROL TREATY THAT WILL BE FIRST STEP TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER GOAL TO ...
The UNFCCC calls on industrialized nations to aim to voluntarily limit their greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000.
But, briefly, the leaders of the New World Order Plan do not want to seize control of the entire world, only to discover that it is nearly out of fuel and of the various ores necessary to maintain the high standard of life they envision for themselves and their families.
South Korea, for example, is Industrialized, at least in the major cities, but they do not consume the amount of fuel and other resources, on a per capita basis, as do we.
www.cuttingedge.org /News/n1110.cfm   (4665 words)

  
 America's workplaces--among the deadliest in the industrialized world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
America's workplaces--among the deadliest in the industrialized world
Deaths from on-the-job falls, railway crashes, and being caught in running equipment, such as manufacturing and agricultural machinery, all reached a six-year high in 1997.
Last year 1,273 industrial locations out of 16,800 were inspected.
www.socialequality.com /articles/1999/feb1999/osha-f13.shtml   (1109 words)

  
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For example, the orange line shows that infectious and parasitic diseases, including measles and malaria, are more frequent causes of death in Subsaharan Africa than elsewhere.
Tuberculosis, measles and malaria continue to be major threats.
Infectious diseases disproportionately affect children and childhood death rates.A baby girl born in Sub-Saharan Africa faces a 22 per cent risk of death before age 15.
ucatlas.ucsc.edu /health/causeprint.html   (620 words)

  
 Dissertations, Essays on "Why do you think the U.S. was the last nation in the industrialized world to permit the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Dissertations, Essays on "Why do you think the U.S. was the last nation in the industrialized world to permit the institution of slavery?"
Title: "Why do you think the U.S. was the last nation in the industrialized world to permit the institution of slavery?"
Perhaps not, but as students and historians study the past, they learn more and more on how to govern the future, and prevent something like slavery from happening again.
www.essayboom.com /essay/Why_do_you_think_the_US_was-151273.html   (247 words)

  
 MIDWIFERY IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD by Marsden Wagner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In the 1950's and 1960's thousands of babies, all over the world, were born with severe limb abnormailities as a direct result of their mothers taking thalidomide during their pregnancies.
It took ten years for researchers to establish that thalidomide was to blame, while the medical profession and the drug companies vigorously denied any connection.
In the developed world there is an epidemic of dyslexia, drug addiction and behavioural problems.
www.drbush.com /drb/chiropractic/article1.htm   (3023 words)

  
 A probe into the possible fate of the two kidnapped Chinese engineers
American inability to control insurgents in the occupied territories in Afghanistan and Iraq -- despite their having spent billions of dollars on the war -- has shown us clearly that these small modern arms, when coupled with the rebels' martyrdom, have made traditional conquest through territorial occupation essentially meaningless.
Chairman Mao was most prescient when in 1970, during Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, made this clarion call to action: "If only people in small countries dare to grab hold of weapons and arise in armed resistance, they are invincible and bound to win in the end.
That's the reason it is very dangerous for Chinese to work in these danger zones right now, because the Americans are desperately trying to find a scapegoat and an excuse for their misbehavior around the world.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-10/13/content_381934.htm   (1518 words)

  
 Economic development and traffic accident mortality in the industrialized world, 1962-1990 -- van Beeck et al. 29 (3): ...
In the ‘western’ world the rising trends in cardiovascular
Geographic variation in the onset of decline of male ischemic heart disease mortality in the Netherlands.
Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study.
ije.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/29/3/503   (3131 words)

  
 Energy R&D and Climate Change - Abstract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This preliminary findings from an ongoing research project examining trends in energy RandD investments in selected industrialized countries (The United States, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, and the European Union).
Its underlying purpose is to assess the adequacy of current energy RandD, in terms of investment levels and programmatic scope considering the likely energy technology demands associated with international efforts to address global climate change.
Causes of the observed decline might include the ongoing deregulation of the energy industries, the absence of acute energy crises, and shifts in domestic social and policy priorities in the post-Cold War period.
energytrends.pnl.gov /integrat2/integ001.htm   (291 words)

  
 Economic development and traffic accident mortality in the industrialized world, 1962-1990 -- van Beeck et al. 29 (3): ...
Economic development and traffic accident mortality in the industrialized world, 1962-1990 -- van Beeck et al.
Economic development and traffic accident mortality in the industrialized world, 1962–1990
traffic accident mortality in the industrialized world in a
ije.oupjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/29/3/503   (381 words)

  
 Bass Curves for the Diffusion of Innovations (Alertbox Sidebar)
In reality, though, many of these connections are useless and lead to information overload, so it may be more reasonable for delta to approximate 1.5.
The use of hypertext prior to 1986 was confined to research labs and other experimental situations.
Currently (1995), there is probably about 1 percent of the population in the industrialized world using the WWW and about 4 to 5 percent using other hypertext systems (mainly online documentation and CD-ROM encyclopedia).
www.useit.com /alertbox/basscurves.html   (574 words)

  
 BW Online | August 26, 2002 | 18: The Coming Battle for Immigrants
The scene on the plaza is a poignant barometer of one of the most profound trends sweeping the industrialized world: the graying of the population.
The pattern is just as dramatic in Japan and Korea, and to a lesser degree in the U.S. A few decades hence, big developing nations like China, Russia, Brazil, and Thailand also will see a surge of retirees.
By 2050, the average age of the world is expected to rise from 26 today to 36.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/02_34/b3796644.htm   (1209 words)

  
 ★ industrialized   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
12 Agricultural Protectionism in the Industrialized World Fred H Sanderson (Editor) 0915707578
National Population Forecasting in Industrialized Countries A Survey Carried Out by the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics the Bureau of the (Nidi Cbgs Publications 24) 9026513046
130 Industrialized housing in Denmark 196576 Marius Kjeldsen 8799718804
www.sunlag.de /industrialized.htm   (2664 words)

  
 Disease and Democracy
This is a refreshing and readable book in which AIDS is used as a lens to understand the public health enterprise ranging from leprosy and syphilis to tuberculosis and SARS.
"Although a vast literature has emerged to chronicle and reflect on the history of the AIDS epidemic since it was first reported almost a quarter of a century ago, there is nothing like Peter Baldwin's probing and synthetic analysis of AIDS in the industrialized world.
Disease and Democracy is the first comparative analysis of how Western democratic nations have coped with AIDS.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/10242.html   (444 words)

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