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  Cuba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Republic of Cuba consists of the island of Cuba (the largest of the Greater Antilles), the Isle of Youth and various adjacent small islands.
To the north is found the United States, to the northeast the Bahamas, to the east the Turks and Caicos Islands, to the west Mexico, to the south the Cayman Islands and Jamaica, and to the southeast Haiti.
Cuba had first served as base for Spanish Conquistadors such as Hernán Cortes [1] when these expeditions left for the mainland of the Americas, the island was almost depopulated.
abcworld.net /Cuba.html   (4998 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: University of Havana
University of Havana or UH (in Spanish, Universidad de la Habana) was founded in September 21, 1721 and is the oldest university in Cuba and one of the first to be founded in the Americas.
The university had first been established in San Juan de Letrán (located in Villa de San Cristóbal in Old Havana) before it was transferred in May 1, 1902 to a hill in the Vedado area of Havana.
At the main university entrance there is a bronze statue of Alma Mater (meaning the "Nourishing mother" in Latin) that was created in 1919 by artist Mario Korbel.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/University-of-Havana   (1135 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Sciences
In either case, the fact that mathematics is such a useful tool in describing the universe is a central issue in the philosophy of mathematics.
Science is practiced in university and other scientific institutes as well as in the field; as such it is a solid vocation in academia, but has also been practiced by amateurs, who typically engage in the observational part of science.
Science is practiced in universities and other scientific institutes as well as in the field; as such it is a solid vocation in academia, but is also practiced by amateurs, who typically engage in the observational part of science.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sciences   (1705 words)

  
 List of colleges and universities by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of universities, colleges and other educational institutions providing higher education (meaning tertiary, quaternary or in some cases post-secondary education).
List of universities in the Republic of Ireland
List of colleges and universities in Puerto Rico
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_by_country   (141 words)

  
 Looking to the Light of Freedom
None the less, to me Cuba is not a model of an alternative society, economic inequality is growing substantially and although output and national income have been growing steadily for the last six years, wages for most people who get paid in the national currency do not provide for an adequate standard of living.
Although university education is free and access is far more equal in Cuba than the United States, the students at the universities, at least in Havana, and I suspect nationally are predominantly white and disproportionately from the strata of professionals and officials.
Cuba’s continued aid to other countries, for example, sending doctors to Africa and Latin America and their training future African and Latin American doctors is an example of what foreign aid should be.
www.zmag.org /cubaclearly.htm   (5236 words)

  
 Socialism Today - Cuba after Castro?
Richard Gott, a well-known left-wing author on Cuba, wrote that "the state monopoly over foreign trade was abolished in 1992, and the constitution was amended to permit the transfer of state property to joint ventures with foreign partners".
Cuba and its revolution had many different features than the Russian revolution, and Castro was not Stalin, as we have explained elsewhere (See Socialism Today No.89, and the book, Cuba: Socialism and Democracy).
Cuba is what Trotsky called a ‘deformed workers’ state’, a planned economy, but with power in the hands of a privileged caste of bureaucrats.
www.socialismtoday.org /104/cuba.html   (4205 words)

  
 The GULLY | Americas | Cuba Now: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Cuba was by far Latin America's leader in slashing under-five mortality, and a close second in life expectancy and literacy.
While Cuba is by no stretch of the imagination a prosperous country, the U.N. reports that it has one of the lowest rates (4.7%) of human poverty in the developing world.
Cuba is one of the five top-scoring developing countries in the U.N. Human Poverty Index (HPI), which measures a long and healthy life, knowledge, economic provisioning and social inclusion.
www.thegully.com /essays/cuba/000305cubahoy.html   (1856 words)

  
 Advisors
Mike is a protistologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst specializing in the hindgut symbionts of termites; he is co-author with Lynn Margulis and Karlene Schwartz of Diversity of Life.
Manter Laboratory of Parasitology at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln.
Victoria Kamsler was educated at Oxford University and has taught ethics and political philosophy at Harvard, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Queens College CUNY, Princeton, and the University of Georgia, where she is a member of the Philosophy Department and the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program.
www.all-species.org /advisors.html   (9005 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: Cuba: Biological Overview
Cuba had previously experienced outbreaks of dengue fever, most recently in 1977, but the 1981 outbreak was especially damaging because two separate dengue fever viruses, types DEN-1 and DEN-2, were responsible, with the second causing the deadly dengue hemorrhagic fever.
Cuba's biotechnology industry is one of the most advanced in emerging countries and would be capable of producing BW agents." Thus, nothing damning was noted by the DIA in 1998, only that Cuba had the potential to acquire biological weapons should its leadership so decide.
As biotechnology develops in Cuba, Fidel Castro recognizes the implications of biotechnology for Cuba's economic development, especially at the time when economic assistance from the USSR was ending, and thus takes further steps to encourage its industrialization.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/Cuba/Biological/index_3482.html   (7897 words)

  
 Cuba: Systematic Repression of Dissent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Communist Party of Cuba, based on Marxism-Leninism and the thought of José Martí, is the organized vanguard of the Cuban nation and the highest directing force of the society and the State, which organizes and orients the common efforts toward the high aims of building socialism and advancing toward the communist society.
Cuba’s severe economic problems since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc appear to have undercut the effectiveness of the CDRs to some extent, particularly in terms of their ability to mobilize great numbers of people for PCC gatherings and activities, another of their prescribed functions.
Cuba’s economic crisis had continued to worsen in 1993-1994, and the government was desperately seeking foreign investment to avoid what Fidel Castro had warned two years earlier was the "Zero Option," in effect, the devolution into a pre-industrialized society.
worldpolicy.org /globalrights/carib/1997-cuba.html   (16876 words)

  
 The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Cuba
It is unclear when the first Jews arrived in Cuba, some arrived after the expulsion from Spain in 1492.
Israel considered Cuba to be one of its worst enemies in the United Nations.
Despite anti-Israel sentiment that existed in Cuba, the only time blatant anti-Semitic attacks occurred in all of Cuban history was during the Gulf War.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Cuba.html   (2283 words)

  
 AU OIE Cuba License information
Individuals who were not born in Cuba, but who have immediate relatives in Cuba (parents, children, siblings, or spouses) whom they wish to visit in Cuba, or travel with to Cuba, please check with the Cuban Interest Section on applicable procedures specific to your situaiton.
The Government of Cuba does not recognize the dual nationality of U.S. citizens who are Cuban-born or the children of Cuban parents.
Non Auburn University students participating in an AU structured program must have a letter from the academic unit at their home institution indicating that they will receive academic credit towards their degree program for the coursework taken at AU and work done in Cuba.
www.auburn.edu /academic/international/oie/cuba   (2888 words)

  
 List of Universities of the World
The names of all universities and university level institutions, as provided to IAU by national authorities and competent bodies from 184 countries around the world, are included in this list organized by country.
It should be noted that the designations employed for countries and territories in the World Higher Education Database (WHED) do not imply any expression of opinion of IAU with regard to their status or the delimitations of their frontiers.
The following list is based on data last collected by IAU from national competent authorities in 2005.
www.unesco.org /iau/onlinedatabases/list.html   (226 words)

  
 The Responsibility of the Intellectuals: Cuba, the U.S. and Human Rights
The list of grants and funding to Cuban “dissidents” (functionaries) by the U.S. government in pursuit of the U.S. policy is long and detailed and accessible to all the progressive moral critics.
The Cuba Program is funded through Economic Support Fund, which is designed to support the economic and political foreign policy interests of the US by providing financial assistance to allies (sic) and countries in transition to democracy”.
This is a clever tactic to encourage terrorist acts in Cuba and then denounce the harsh sentences, evoking the chorus of ‘yea’ sayers in the ‘Amen’ corner of the progressive U.S. and European intellectual establishment.
www.countercurrents.org /cuba-petras050503.htm   (3219 words)

  
 CSC - Academic Services
The CSC is developing a database of individuals and institutions with specialized skills or knowledge with an interest in offering short courses in Cuba or holding such at their home institutions.
If you are interested in offering a short course in Cuba, or if you are interested in hosting a Cuban expert to offer such a course at your institution, please fill out the form by clicking here.
If you are interested in viewing the list of scholars interested in collaboration, please click here.
www.duke.edu /web/cuba/academic_services.htm   (1562 words)

  
 Traveling to Cuba
There are always two aspects of going to Cuba, the part having to do with the Cuban government, of course, and, especially in the case of the US, the part having to do with your country of residence.
When you come back from Cuba under a license, you are able to bring in items protected by the Berman amendment: books, CDs, videos, even works of art.
Tourist visas for anyone, American or not, as long as you were not born in Cuba or are not visiting Cuban relatives, are easy to obtain and come as a part of your travel package when you buy your ticket.
afrocubaweb.com /travelcuba.htm   (3267 words)

  
 Cuba News / Miami Herald - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
Cuba News / Miami Herald - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
FIU religious studies graduate student Isabel Morales, who is studying spiritism in Cuba, said she has got to make a trip to have a legitimate thesis.
For the first time since the Cuba embargo was imposed 41 years ago, majorities in the House and Senate favor an easing of trade sanctions against Fidel Castro's government, posing a serious political challenge to GOP leaders, who do not want to see a Republican-controlled Congress enact such legislation, particularly in an election year.
www.cubanet.org /CNews/y00/jul00/31e4.htm   (2845 words)

  
 Cuba testimonials and recommendations from American and Canadian travelers. Testimonials from our clients
Cuba itself was a discovery for all students and they got an experience they will carry with them permanently.
Cuba was an experience of a lifetime for me, in which I am so grateful I participated in".
The students are clearly appreciative of the opportunity to study in Cuba and many have written letters and reports, stating that the course has been among their most memorable and significant educational experiences.
www.edutourstocuba.com /clients-testimonials.html   (8257 words)

  
 country study cuba social studies
__ "Cuba is the Caribbean's largest and least commercialised island and one of the world's last bastions of communism.
Its relative political isolation has prevented it from being overrun by tourists, and locals are sincerely friendly to those who do venture in." Learn about all the attractions.
The monuments, landscapes, and people of this largest Caribbean island offer picture-perfect images." While this may belong in the tourism section, there is so much descriptive information about the various regions of the country to make it well worth your time.
www.archaeolink.com /country_study_cuba_social_studie.htm   (405 words)

  
 Cuba
Cuba lost $4-5 billion in aid and subsidies; foreign trade is around 25% of the 1989 level, and GDP about 50%.
As shown in Table 3, Cuba has fewer main telephone lines as a proportion of population and GDP than any Caribbean nation but Haiti, and is closer to the low-income nations of the world than the lower- middle group in which it falls.
Cuba has followed this pattern, and at least four user communities, NGOs, Youth Computer Clubs, universities, and medical and biotechnology workers, are worthy of support.
som.csudh.edu /fac/lpress/devnat/nations/cuba/cuba4.htm   (5477 words)

  
 Cuba and Cuban Americans on the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
These photographs, along with hundreds of images of Cuba from other sources, were donated to the Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) at UM by Manuel R. Bustamante over the last four years, along with documents and memorabilia related to Catholicism in Cuba.
This research directory, prepared by The Forum for the Study of Cuba (University of Wolverhampton) is a resource of over 50 individual researchers working in the field of Cuban Studies.
This Amnesty International report updates the information contained in Cuba: Government Crackdown on Dissent, AMR 25/14/96, April 1996, which detailed actions taken by the Cuban Government to prevent members of Concilio Cubano, a forum of some 140 unofficial groups from freely exercising their rights to freedom of association, assembly and expression.
www.library.miami.edu /netguides/cubanet.html   (3939 words)

  
 CUBA: `Our country is an example of what can be done with minimal resources'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cuba is a modest example of what could be done with a minimum of resources.
University education is advancing significantly while we continue to help other countries with education, health and sport, free of charge.
The smallest municipality in Cuba is stronger than all the scum that met with Bush in the James L. Knight Center in Miami.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2002/503/503p12.htm   (2538 words)

  
 Traveling to Cuba
There are always two aspects of going to Cuba, the part having to do with the Cuban government, of course, and, especially in the case of the US, the part having to do with your country of residence.
When you come back from Cuba under a license, you are able to bring in items protected by the Berman amendment: books, CDs, videos, even works of art.
Tourist visas for anyone, American or not, as long as you were not born in Cuba or are not visiting Cuban relatives, are easy to obtain and come as a part of your travel package when you buy your ticket.
www.afrocubaweb.com /travelcuba.htm   (3113 words)

  
 Catalogue of World Universities: Universities of Cuba
The catalogue lists all the higher education institutions we have located that have an independent URL domain.
The list is organized alphabetically including not only Universities but related organizations.
If you know of any mistake, changes of name or URL, universities missed or institutions listed not belonging to academics sector please send an email to webmaster.
www.webometrics.info /university_by_country.asp?country=cu   (98 words)

  
 African Studies Programs - African Scholarly Organizations
Lists courses, faculty, graduate students, has the latest Program newsletter, information on its annual graduate student conference, video holdings which can be borrowed by individiuals or institutions, a lending library open to institutions and teachers, K-12 Newsletter, graphics of the Library's Somali poster collection, and other information.
Ohio University Library is the official U.S. depository for Botswana and Swaziland publications.
Lists Faculty Members involved in African Research, graduate students and their research topics, campus events, etc. The University of Calgary Press publishes in African Studies.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/asp.html   (6243 words)

  
 ...FAQ's... Cubalinda.com-Your Travel to Cuba!!!...
Exit and entrance permits for citizens of those countries with which Cuba has a specific agreement pertaining to the exemption of visa requirements, or in cases where a visa is already part of your passport document.
An OFAC license is a permission to spend money in Cuba, issued on request for certain permitted activities such as delivery of humanitarian assistance, people-to-people contact, and educational pursuits.
If you are a faculty member or student at a university that does not have a license, get in touch with us at info@cubalinda.com.
www.cubalinda.com /English/Sections/FAQ.asp   (1854 words)

  
 Universities abroad
The Year Abroad Office also maintains a password protected Foreign universities database (ask the Year Abroad Office for the password if you do not have it or have forgotten it).
Yahoo's list of countries with access to all kinds of information, not just education.
Universities Worldwide List of universities by country - Klaus Förster, University of Innsbruck
www.mml.cam.ac.uk /ya/yaunis.html   (139 words)

  
 Organic Cuba Libre!
Despite the embargo, or “blockade,” as it is called in Cuba, this arrangement worked pretty well for the growing Cuban economy for about thirty years, until the collapse of the Soviet Union beginning in 1989.
The following list of current initiatives was presented to the Food First delegation by Luis García, an agronomist who is Director of The Center for the Study of Sustainable Agriculture at the Agrarian University of Havana.
The key to the success of urban agriculture in Cuba is that the farms are located in the same neighborhoods as their customers.
www.newfarm.org /international/features/0303/brian_cuba.shtml   (2069 words)

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